Article by Professor Bruce G Charlton An Inklings meeting was the (usually) Thursday late-evening meeting in CS (‘Jack’) Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford; to read work in progress, criticize it, and have conversations arising from this. It is important to recognise that the focus of the Inklings was the writing of its members; even…
Article by J. Conrad Matthews Last week, I was looking at some artwork for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign I am playing in. The game had a new Dungeon Master, (not me!) and I was looking for a ‘look’ for my player. The sessions are lots of fun, the players are determining many of the…
This article by Tom Simon is a sequel to Ozamataz and first appeared on Bondwine. So far, I have described my thoughts about ozamataz up to the point where I asked whether one could attract that kind of self-sustaining fan participation, and if so, how. This is also the point at which the Muse, or the Guardian Angel, or…
article by essayist extraordinaire, Tom Simon I have spent the last week or so (when not sleeping off my medications) in a fairly continuous process of brainstorming, chewing over several new-to-me ideas and figuring out how to turn them into actual writing techniques. I forget exactly what prompted me to revisit the Key & Peele skit I…
Article by J. Conrad Matthews My official involvement with the paranormal began over twenty-five years ago when I received a police call to investigate a UFO. This was before ‘The X-Files’ and before anyone could be identified on a police band. I received a chorus of jokes ranging from the theme songs to ‘The…
An article by the wonderfully-named William Wildblood. The blog referred to in this article is Albion Awakening Mere Christians If there were patrons of this blog, in the sense of guiding lights, they might well be C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien with an honourable mention, particularly in Bruce Charlton’s case, of Owen Barfield. The stories…
Article by Donald Williams from a blog called The Five Pilgrims, July 10, 2017 ote: This review was originally published in Mythlore: The Journal of the Mythopoeic Society 105/106, Spring/Summer 2009): 168-70. C. S. LEWIS AND THE SEARCH FOR RATIONAL RELIGION. Revised and Updated. John Beversluis. Amherst, N. Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007. 363 pp. $20.00, pbk. ISBN 978-1-59102-3. Surely one of the most…
This fascinating article about Tolkien and language is from a blog called: MARY LOVES THE UK an American’s Viewpoint of the United Kingdom Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arverenien; he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in… ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1994) Clarification for all readers who have…
This article is by J. Conrad Matthews My wife and daughter asked me to watch a comedian on a talent competition. I needed a break from writing anyway. This was a good opportunity to convince my family was I a person and not part of the furniture that occasionally haunted the kitchen. I missed them a…
Part One: We Live in a Fairytale Part Two: Descent into Darkness Part Three: The Wood that is Perilous You live in a fairy tale. What fairytale? For that, you shall have to read the first part of this series on Defending The Wood Perilous, which you can find here. The second part…