C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are deservedly well known for their fiction. Tolkien’s mythology is almost unparalleled in level of detail and The Lord of the Rings set the standard for fantasy literature, while Lewis’s novels have inspired countless readers. We are very familiar with them as writers, but what about as action heroes? This […]
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C.S. Lewis’s Eleventy First Birthday
November is an important month in the life of C.S. Lewis – he was born November 29, 1898, and died November 22, 1963. For his milestone eleventy-first birthday this year (Bilbo Baggin’s birthday in the opening chapters of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings), the C.S. Lewis Foundation salutes CS Lewis and may his legacy stay […]
Inklings & Influences
Note: the following blog post is a repost from our 2009 Southwest Regional Retreat Writers Workshop blog. Click here for the main 2009 C.S. Lewis Southwest Regional Retreat page. ——————————————————————————– Review of The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Dr. Diana Pavlac Glyer “No man is an island, […]
Inklings and Inspiration
Note: the following blog post is a repost from our 2009 Southwest Regional Retreat Writers Workshop blog page. Click here for the main 2009 C.S. Lewis Southwest Regional Retreat page. ——————————————————————————– Please excuse the pause in this blog. I’ve been on holiday, and, of all places, to The Kilns. Yes, C.S. Lewis’s home just outside […]
Greetings from Nan Rinella at The Kilns
DAY THREE-WEDNESDAY, August 5 Have you read Lewis, studied him, and longed to visit his home-the womb of his creation? I have, and I am here at The Kilns for the 2009 Summer Seminars. At the moment I am sitting in the upper garden surrounded by flowering trees, bushes, flowers-many of which I have not […]