Alas, not me

All literature enchants and delights us, recovers us from the 10,000 things that distract us. The unenchanted life is not worth living.

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29 July 2015

C. S. Lewis, in hospital in France, 12 February 1918

It is nothing unusual for soldiers at war to try to put the best face on their predicament when writing to friends and family back ...

28 July 2015

Why Does the Roaring of the Sea Disquiet the Valar?

The Sea -- Copyright © Ted Nasmith. All rights reserved. A well known theme that runs throughout Tolkien's legendarium is that...

22 July 2015

Young C. S. Lewis, Arrived at Oxford

C. S. Lewis first came to Oxford in the spring of 1917. So many students were absent, abroad on the battlefields of France, that the town a...

15 July 2015

Is That An Allusion To Ulmo and Tuor in "The Great River" (FR 2.ix.380-81)?

... they let the River bear them on at its own pace, having no desire to hasten towards the perils that lay beyond, whichever course they t...

04 July 2015

Not What You Might Expect From Beowulf

A few months back I began a project I had long wished to undertake. Ever since I was a lad and first read The Lord of the Rings, I had wa...

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