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...
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interview of Christopher Tolkien, the official executor of J.R.R. Tolkien's estate, and the interpreter of his father's unpublished works....
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...
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...
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...
Terry Cowan writes in his blog: Dr. Ralph Wood, professor of Literature and Theology at Baylor University, recently delivered two excellent presentations in...
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...
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...
Note: this is forwarded from the newsgroup alt.books.inklings. Some of the links maywrap to the next line and you may need to copy and paste them to your web...
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...
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...
Agrred: but Williams did come very close to allegory in "The House by the Stable" and "Grab and Grace". Richard Sturch. ________________________________ From:...
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...
This is kind of a long and involved and obscure query, based on a good deal of supposition. But it's a question that has come up in a long-dormant Yahoo group...
From Troels Forchhammer August 2012 While July was a month of scouting (and a new job), August has, for me, been very much a Tolkien month. The climax was of...
For those in North America (Eastern) Saturday, October 6, 2012, for our annual Open House, Orthodox Education Day (OED). This year's theme will be "Inklings of...
I hope you don't take offense in my sudden approach. I made a quick trip to Madrid, Spain and was attacked and robbed. My belongings including my cash, credit...
I recently read a book called "The boy who could see demons", which was inspired by C.S. Lewis's "The Screwtape letters" (see other post). But I had another...
The boy who could see demons, and the psychiatrist who thought he was nuts http://t.co/b17lolYK The Boy Who Could See Demons by Carolyn Jess-Cooke My rating: 4...
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his...
From Iambic Admonit blog So, what was I doing in the Wade Center for the 3 ½ work days I managed to squeeze in this week? Well, I was transcribing an...
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:21:07 +0200, Troels Forchhammer ... literature/> ... Thanks for the mention, but I think this misses the main point of the debate, which...
The following annotated list of Tolkien links is posted monthly on some Usenet newsgroups by Troels Forchhammer, and may be of interest to some. Tolkien...
An interesting discussion seems to be developing in the Orthodox blogosphere about whether Orthodox Christians should write, or even read, fantasy literature....
I teach in a classical school where our literature, Latin, and history curricula include a very broad swatch of mythologies. Literature includes the works of...
Greetings! I am new here, having stumbled across the group while googling Valarin (language of the Valar). Lewis's work, fiction and theology and literary...
In the Orthodox Church this coming Sunday is called Cheesefare Sunday -- the equivalent of the Western Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day. It is the...
Protecting the Omnipotence. Source: Williams 1958 (1931):217 (Many dimensions). Chloe Burnett is lying in bed conscious of an intruder, after the Stone, and...
