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A.S. Byatt's "Ragnarok" is a novel about a young girl who was evacuated to the English countryside during the Second World War. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she was given a copy of a book of ancient North myths and her inner and outer worlds were transformed. Byatt's book...

I do wonder what they would think of the unabomber called Ted Kaczynski though? But when you think about it. If people dropped cars and returned to horses. Then it would be more environmental world if you ask me.

I recently finished Dickens' David Copperfield and as a contrast I'm reading Dahl's Matilda which feels like eating a naughty ice cream after a substantial main meal. (No spoilers on Matilda please). Dahl's eponymous heroine is never wrong (so far) and in the chapter called Miss Honey she...

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I am glad it did so well though. Otherwise we wouldnt have gotten the amazing animations of later 80s and 90s from Disney. But i had to see what dwarves in Snow White looked like? Here is some old images i found online. So as you can see. Most seems to depict them as semi realistic short...

It goes without saying that Tolkien and Lewis were friends, but the fact below is a new one for me.

https://www.cslewismovie.com/home/

This is going off memory but it was something like Lewis saying to Tolkien that there was not enough of the kinds of stories they enjoyed so they would have to write some themselves. I read it in carpenters bio on the Inklings i believe. Is anyone familiar with the qoute?

In a sense a child does not long for fairy land as a boy longs to be the hero of the first eleven. Does anyone suppose that he really and prosaically longs for all the dangers and discomforts of a fairy tale?—really wants dragons in contemporary England? It is not so. It would be much truer to...

I'm reading William Gray's Fantasy Myth and the Measure of Truth. In his chapter on Tolkien and the Love of Faery, Gray states that Tolkien found Lewis's use of unmistakable Christian material "distasteful" since they "blurred the ontological boundary between the primary world (where, for...

In Memoriam Post: :)

I went last year to an exhibition in Oxford (UK) of Tolkien artefacts including original maps and drawings. There was a catalogue book (which I've just finished reading) for the exhibition which includes a few essays by Tolkien experts, including one by John Garth about The Inklings, the club...

Hello! To say things short, I was thinking about Tolkien's elvish languages this morning, and noticed that the word for "legend" in Sindarin is "narn", but"narn" seems to be also the root for Narnia. I know Tolkien and Lewis were great friends, and that Tolkien used lots of Norse roots to build...

An independent film depicting the relationship between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien is in progress. The film makers' facebook page for Jack and Tollers is here: https://www.facebook.com/Thirddartstudios They have a concept trailer link on that page, but if you don't have facebook, it's...

For Tolkien Trivia Collectors: The episode of Lewis (Murder mystery series - 'Morse' spin-off), screened 22nd March 2009, was set around a fantasy author in Oxford. The episode contains Tolkien/CS Lewis trivia (true and imagined), and there is filming inside and outside the Eagle and Child...

In The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis, rings are used to travel between the worlds of Narnia and our place. In The Lord of the Rings rings are used, and in the case of the One Ring, when Frodo/Bilbo or even anyone put it on, they would go into the Wraith 'world'. What I'm wondering is whether...

I was just wondering if anyone else's read any C.S. Lewis. I know that he and Tolkien were friends and contemporaries, but how did they influence each other? Any insight to that would be great. :)

Those who know Tolkien's history know the part played in it by his friend C.S. Lewis. This thread is for him. For openers: =============================== Movie makers give CS Lewis Lord Of The Rings treatment By Senay Boztas, Arts Correspondent IT was a friendship that thrived...

C. S. Lewis' pet peeve. C. S. Lewis is often quoted, "Not another f******g elf!" when reading LotR Does anyone know which elf this refers to, or even if he actually said it?

As many of you know, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis were very good friends. Tolkien led Lewis to christianity and they went to collage together. I'd like to have an open descution here for fans of both great writers. We can talk about pretty much anything about them; before and after they met. I'm not...