Joseph Pearce sent this message to The C. S. Lewis Foundation regarding the newest issue of the Saint Austin Review, on the theme “Tolkien and Lewis: Masters of Myth, Tellers of Truth.” For all the Lewis and Tolkien fans, this should be a treat.
We’ve been asked to comment on an article that appeared in the Washington Times last week. I didn’t really know quite what to say, as every single paragraph in the article begs an entire article on its’ own. There’s a lot to be said about it, and it is a very manipulative article, leading you to believe certain things that the article says without giving the context for when quotes were said. People have a tendency to use quotes from authors and things how they want, and based on needs to prove things. I have a specific example regarding Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, but we’ll get to that later.
“Alas, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits. I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” (Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings)
We were reminded today, by our friend Mark Sommer, that today is C.S. Lewis’ 111th Birthday, and I thought it would be great to start with a quote from my most favorite movie movies of all time, those based on my favorite books written by Lewis’ friend J.R.R. Tolkien.
From booksblog.dallasnews.com: Saturday evening, Nov. 21, 2009, lovers of two of the most popular writers of all time–C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, known popularly for the Narnia series and Lord of the Rings–may spend an evening with Peter Kreeft of Boston. The dinner opens at 6:30 p.m. in Elliott Hall at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, 3821 University Blvd. in Dallas. Tickets are $70; the evening includes “the most literary silent auction in Dallas.”
To reserve seats, email mdmonse@yahoo.com.
Brian Sibley wrote to us to invite you all to take a look at this unique event opportunity to spend an evening with him this September. Take a look! EJ Casting.Com is pleased to present an evening with world-renowned writer BRIAN SIBLEY on Thursday 24 September 2009 at 7:00pm in The Library at TEATROS PRIVATE MEMBERS CLUB, 93 – 107 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC1.
BRIAN SIBLEY adapted J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings for BBC Radio in which Ian Holm stared as Frodo and Sir Michael Hordern played the wizard, Gandalf. This production was one of the inspirations for Peter Jackson to make the trilogy into movies.
From the 1930s to the 1940s, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their friends and fellow writers met to share good fellowship and their creative works-in-progress. Known as the “Inklings,” they produced some of the most beloved works of the 20th century.
Join Diana Pavlac Glyer, author of The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, as she invites us to explore the Inklings’ friendship and the influence it had on their lives. She will encourage us to respond to God’s call to community and discover that we are refreshed and inspired as we connect with others.
In the last few years, we’ve had a lot of lost manuscripts begin to surface from the likes of C.S. Lewis’ friend J.R.R. Tolkien. From The Children of Hurin to The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, the wealth of literature from Tolkien has been expanded greatly, and it’s about time that something new from Lewis has been discovered. Communications Professor Steven Beebe of Texas State discovered a lost manuscript fragment in Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.
This week’s mailbag features a topic that is very interesting to me: that of the relationship of J.R.R. Tolkien and his writing to C.S. Lewis and his. Other topics include what Anna Popplewell and William Moseley are up to next, and Andrew Adamson’s past in Papua New Guinea. I’ll see if I have the time to reach back into the mailbag archives after the five letters that I received this week. Be sure to look through the comments from last week’s mailbag for some fascinating follow-up information as well! Let’s get started!
As many of you know, Tolkien and Lewis were great friends for many years. They were influential on each other’s works and both taught at Oxford.
The place to go for news on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, for the last 10 years has been none other than TheOneRing.net! We’d like to congratulate them on 10 great years, and look forward to the next 10 years as well! I’ve been a big fan of the website for many years, and they’ve provided inspiration for me with this site as well. This is not to mention the fact that they have allowed me to use their movie review engine for the Narnia Fan Reviews!
With The Hobbit films coming out in a few years, there’s a lot to look forward to! And we wouldn’t have it any other way!
For those interested, Weta created a birthday video and a card, that you can see at WetaNZ.com! It’s a well deserved, and well earned reward for a job well done!
Two of the biggest Christian actors are slated to star in a film about two of the 20th century’s most prominent Christian writers. Actors Kirk Cameron (Growing Pains, Left Behind, and Fireproof), and Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon, Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ) are slated to star as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien in an upcoming still untitled movie.
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