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apilgriminnarnia.com
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| | | | Today is the 60th anniversary of C.S. Lewis' death. Among the public figures from Lewis' history, poet-novelist-critic-playwright John Wain is a complicated character. He comes into Lewis' story not just as a student but as someone connected to the Inklings and yet separate from them. Wain was an insider-outsider who could speak with both intimacy | |
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| | | | Here is an excellent post by John Garth -- I'm serving as his preceptor for a course called "Tolkien's Wars and Middle-earth" at Signum University this semester. Do check out his work, especially his amazing book "Tolkien and the Great War"! | |
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| | | | As J.R.R. Tolkien was born 69,425,820 minutes ago, give or take. The Tolkien Society is again raising a toast to the Professor on his birthday, 3 January 2023 (see here). After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The Lord of the Rings, Frodo toasted his uncle on their shared birthday each year. | |
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tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com
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| | So David Bratman of Tolkien Studies just posted here that Verlyn Flieger is retiring from the journal after 22 years. I wondered: has it r... |