One Eternal Day

When Tolkien's memorial is placed in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey next year, it will be near that of C.S. Lewis. "[H]...

English vicars have noticed increasing numbers of young people in their congregations. The Church of England commissioned a report to discov...

I've owned this book for some time, but only started reading it yesterday. It is The Hidden Life of Trees , by Peter Wohlleben. Definite...

Wise counsel  from a work of fiction: ...Tolkien’s assessment of history isn’t just the musings of some dour and curmudgeonly professor. His...

From "88 Years of Middle-Earth, 75 Years of Narnia" : During the hectic middle decades of the twentieth century, from the end of t...

Joseph Loconte on one of the reasons Tolkien and Lewis remain relevant beyond just entertainment: .... Tolkien and Lewis made a literary pa...

The world's richest man has purchased the Oxford pub where the Inklings once met. From The Telegraph : The most unlikely part of Ellison...

Tolkien delivered "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" in 1936, before he began writing the Middle-earth books. This is from ...

Jake Meador, in an email to subscribers of  Mere Orthodoxy : .... It is not a question of knowing what is right. It is a question, rather, ...

From a long, very interesting, essay by Katherine Rundell, herself an author of books for children, "Why children’s books?" : .......

Five Books recommends reading Tolkien because the books are a different experience than the films: These are stories of adventure that have...

Jake Meador, on Tolkien's view of moral responsibility . This was published in September and I missed it. .... There is a simplicity abo...

I'm tempted, but it seems rather expensive. From a review, "Of mice and men and Magdalen: C.S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin...

Re-posted because I agree even more strongly today than I did then. From Alan Jacobs on "A Long Defeat, A Final Victory" : ......

Making an argument that G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien have also made: .... Fairy tales are beloved by children partly beca...

When the Inklings gathered the usual routine was for one of them to read from something on which he was working. Apparently, when none were ...

A.N. Wilson was a biographer of C.S. Lewis (not my favorite). Here Wilson narrates a pretty good biographical documentary about CSL, "...

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War is the first of "Five Best: Books on Geopolitics" recommended by Adm. James Stavridi...

Douglas Murray's choice this week in his series, "Things Worth Remembering," is a sermon delivered by C.S. Lewis soon after t...

From a review of Tolkien's Faith : The year 2023 marked 50 years since the death of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, and 2024 will mark 70 ye...