The Inklings it isn't, but I greatly enjoyed reading "The elegance of the hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery, which gives some insight into the meaning of ubuntu. My...
Williams was not an allegorist as, for example, was John Bunyan, whose Christian cannot be made to symbolize Everyman or any man, but only Christian man. He...
Agrred: but Williams did come very close to allegory in "The House by the Stable" and "Grab and Grace". Richard Sturch. ________________________________ From:...
I enjoyed it too! Is all well Ann, with you? Glad to see you posting! Carolyn ... -- Carolyn I'm an iherb fan: use my code WUY356 for your first purchase and...
This was posted on the alt.usage.english newsgroup recently: "The word 'hobbit' has certainly been seeing a lot of legal action lately, thanks to the Saul...
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Dec 1, 2012 9:53 pm
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November 2012 So, November has gone and as I write this, Denmark has been decorated with a very beautiful white blanket. In another part of the world, summer...
Be fair to the palaeontologists! They did not confuse "Sauron" with "-saurus". It's just that the importance of the dinosaur's Eye reminded them of the...
A couple of years ago I came across an article on Hipster Christianity, which, it seemed to me was pretty wide of the mark. It linked to a quiz, which...
Terry Cowan writes in his blog: Dr. Ralph Wood, professor of Literature and Theology at Baylor University, recently delivered two excellent presentations in...
Has anyone seen the film of "The hobbit"? Any comments, reviews etc? And a merry/happy New Year to all! Incidentally, we've been having the annual butterfly...
... In a blog post I wrote about a Soviet view of hobbits, and included a couple of illustrations from the Russian translation, showing them with hairy legs. ...
What did you read in 2012? When I look at the list of books I have read, it's a bit disappointing. I didn't read as much as I hoped to, and there's not much by...
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December 2012 Happy New Year! Don't forget the Birthday Toast on the 3rd of January! <http://tolkiensociety.org/toast/2013/> This year Tolkien would have...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey A New Year, Another Look The 2D difference, and Tolkien's vs. Jackson's Bilbo Mark Sommer | 01/01/13 | Jackson's Bilbo Last...
Gosh, that's a lot of reading. 2012 was a busy year for me and I managed to squeeze only a few books in: MacDonald, George. Phantastes MacDonald, George....
... I read Lossky a long time ago, and tried to read Lilith, but never managed to finish it. I'm not sure why. I read about three quarters of the way through ...
Thanks for a thoughtful and interesting review, Steve. It makes me wish modern producers - and writers - would focus less on conflict; it certainly was not...
First ever press interview of Christopher Tolkien, the official executor of J.R.R. Tolkien's estate, and the interpreter of his father's unpublished works....
An Anabaptist friend recently wrote on his blog asking how useful trinitarian doctrine is for a theology of religions: http://t.co/OrIRrQ4K He referred to a...
It reminds me of a passages from Chesterton's "The Everlasting Man" that Confucius and the Buddha, on beholding the God-child "would have come to complete...
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Rather far from the literature and a bit frivolous, this, but I just found out about an animal with a formal scientific name taken from a character in The...
There was a tardigrade on television the other day. Wasn't a fossil with a large eye named after Sauron not long ago? And an imaginary creature of the future...
Cute! Do you know if it is actually taken from Tolkien, or directly from the Norse? What about the diminutive hominid from Indonesia or thereabouts known...
... Nice. I missed that news. ... Also nice, and it shows the readings that more or less sober scientists pursue in off hours; but real, internationally...
