CS Lewis' life.

[Elendil]

Hey guys! I'm doing my major research project for the year, and I'm doing it on CS Lewis' life. :D Now what better place to come than a site full of his fans? :p
This is something very important for my grades... I mean REALLY important! I need things that you can't just find anywhere, and I need them to be good. I'm aiming for this report to be about 8000 words.
Can you guys give me some interesting uncommon info? :D That would be REAL nice!

(But I will need sites/books etc where I can check them up! )

[Into the Wardrobe]

Hey there Grace, the best site I can give you carries that of my screenname. You'll want to check it out. They have ideas for other resources as well. Here's the site.

http://cslewis.drzeus.net/

You might also look at the 3rd disc of the extended edition of LWW called, CS Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia. There's a lot of great stuff in there.

Also there's a biography and quote site that might be of use.

http://www.quotedb.com/authors/cs-lewis

Hope that these help my friend.

[Elendil]

Thanks ItW!
Here are a few things that I'm trying to get more info on at the moment...if anyone can help.

Lewis’ first stories when he was a boy...I know he had one about a mouse only I've lost the site...:o
More about his mother’s death.
His first impressions of England.

Does anyone know anything about Campbell College?
And what is Wagners music???

Where can I find info on Arthur Greeves???

When Lewis was wounded in 1918 in WWI where & how was he wounded? & what with? (shell bullet or
what?)

And what can you guys tell me about Paddy & Mrs.Moore?

[Copperfox]

Wagner--first name Richard, I think--was a composer of famous German operas. The best-known single piece of his music is "The Flight of the Valkyries," from one of the several operas he wrote about Norse mythology. That tune was heard in "The Blues Brothers," when the neo-Nazis were chasing the Blues Brothers. Other operas by Wagner include "Parsifal," "Lohengrin," and "Tannhauser." The overture to "Tannhauser" is one of my favorite pieces of orchestral music. Believe it or not, in an old-old Warner Bros. cartoon that spoofed Wagner's operas, ELMER FUDD sang a bit of song to the tune of the main theme in the "Tannhauser" overture.

The reason for that movie linking Wagner's music to the Nazis is that, whatever Wagner himself may have had in mind back there in the 19th century, Hitler chose to think of the Wagnerian operas as symbolizing the superiority of German macho men to everyone else.

Mrs. Moore, nicknamed "Minto," was the widowed mother of Mr. Lewis' Army buddy. Because the friend was killed in France, Mr. Lewis took it on himself to support Minto for the rest of her life. It is alleged that Mr. Lewis and Minto actually had a sexual affair for years; but if this is true, it was before Mr. Lewis dedicated himself to Christ.

Mr. Lewis' injury, if I'm not mistaken, was in a friendly-fire incident involving artillery.

Lewis' own autobiography, "Surprised By Joy," contains some of the information. More can be found in "The Inklings," by Humphrey Carpenter.

[Into the Wardrobe]

Look at the sites I mentioned and the DVD...most of the answers to the questions are in there...we can't do your homework for you Grace. Watch the DVD and check out the sites. You'll learn about Boxen, Paddy Moore and his family, Oxford and Cambridge, and many other things darlin'. Blessings to you in that...let us know how things turn out. If there's stuff in there you can't find let us know and I'll see if I can find another site to help if I can.

[Elendil]

Well firstly I can't watch the DVD coz you can't get it over here...and my library books are taking so long to get here!!!
I've looked at those websites and am reading a book about CS Lewis...:o

[Into the Wardrobe]

Bummer on the DVD. Hope that they'll get the EE version of LWW over there.

[Elendil]

Bummer on the DVD. Hope that they'll get the EE version of LWW over there.

I'm pretty sure that they aren't..