While at Oxford, Tolkien formed a literary group called the Inklings with this man who wrote of Narnia
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C. S. Lewis - Wikipedia  They both served on the English faculty at Oxford University, and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to Lewis's...
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The Mythopoeic Society: About the Inklings  Properly speaking, wrote W.H. Lewis, one of their number, the Inklings was neither a club nor a literary society, though it partook of the nature of both. ... An overlapping group gathered on Tuesday (later Monday) mornings in various Oxford pubs, usually but not always the ... J.R.R. Tolkien; C.S. Lewis; Charles Williams.
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Inklings - Wikipedia  The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, ... When Lean left Oxford during 1933, the society ended, and Tolkien and ... at that time, whether the original short-lived club had ever existed or not." ... A resurrection of the Inklings in Oxford was made in 2006; the group still...
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J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Literary Friendship and Rivalry, Oxford ...  Oct 1, 2006 ... J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: A Literary Friendship and Rivalry ... OxfordI had vowed to take Dead Man's Walk. ... author of The Chronicles of Narnia and Christian writings like The .... The Inklings arose when the club began trying their own hand at .... And to try to understand what made Tollers tick.
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Who Were the Inklings? | Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel ...  The Inklings were an informal literary circle in Oxford that began meeting in the early ... (which they called the Bird and Baby or just the Bird) and at Lewis's rooms in ... to the mid-1940s, when the group heard J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings read ... made his living as a solicitor, but he is best remembered as the author of...
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The Silmarillion - Wikipedia  For several years after his father's death, Christopher Tolkien ... consistency (and consistency with The Lord of the Rings) as possible, ... the first-ever released Elvish word list, was published in 1977.
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C. S. Lewis: The Creator of Narnia - Biography - Infoplease  C. S. Lewis: The Creator of Narnia - Biography ... to Shakespeare's time; Out of the Silent Planet (1938) was the first of a trilogy of science fiction novels, the hero...
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This author of - Quizlet  AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS---The author of the 1st entirely self-written .... BRITISH AUTHORS---He originally wrote "The Hobbit" to entertain his kids ..... born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, but soon moved with his parents to Oxford, ...... a youngster this "Billy Budd" author worked in his brother's fur store in Albany.
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Book Quiz with 10 questions about Author - J R R Tolkien  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in South Africa in 1892 to British parents. ... Middle Earth's Misty Mountains were inspired by Tolkien's visit to the Swiss Alps. ... published as one volume but a shortage of paper after World War Two meant that ... What is the name of the wizard who appears in The Hobbit and The Lord of...
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JRR Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa  South African ...  JRR Tolkien, best known for writing 'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The ... Writer JRR Tolkien might have only spent three years in Bloemfontein, but South Africa is proud that the author of 'The Lord of the Rings' was born in ... was born in Bloemfontein in South Africa's Free State Province in 1892. ... Contact us.
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Inklings - Wikipedia  Until late 1949, Inklings readings and discussions usually occurred during Thursday evenings in C. S. Lewis's college rooms at Magdalen College. The Inklings...
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Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia: CBN.com  The evacuated children staying at the Kilns provided his original inspiration. ... He was also helped by his pupil and friend, Roger Green, who had written a story called ... Jack had been having a good many dreams of lions about that time . .... Some reviewers disliked the Narnia books for their Christian content, perhaps...
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Seattle Pacific University  ... wrote The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950 as a gift for his godchild, Lucy Barfield. He explained the gift to her in his preface to the book: I wrote this story for ... Lewis challenges the deconstructionists who were beginning to dominate ... In his dedication of the book to Lucy Barfield, he calls the story a fairy tale.
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Biography  The Tolkien Society  Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, ... with its mill, just south of Birmingham; and darkly urban Birmingham itself, where he ... his school from Classics to the more congenial English Language and Literature. ... Their first son, John Francis Reuel (later Father John Tolkien) had already...
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J.R.R. Tolkien - Author, Linguist - Biography.com  Sep 1, 2016 ... He is best known for authoring The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. ... Born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, J.R.R. Tolkien settled ... John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on ... While there he started a writing group called The Inklings, which counted...
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Re-Reading J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" - Chapter One: An ...  Jan 31, 2012 ... In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. ... He goes on from there to introduce Bilbo, and hobbits, at large, and even ... A fun piece of history: J.R.R. Tolkien first conceived The Hobbit while grading papers one afternoon; according to the ... Tolkien follows up with this sentence: This is the story of how a...
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The Silmarillion - Wikipedia  The Silmarillion /slmrln/ is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited ... Author, J. R. R. Tolkien. Illustrator ... The first part, Ainulindal, tells of the creation of E, the "world that is". ... The Silmarillion, like Tolkien's other Middle-earth writings, was meant to have taken place at some time in Earth's past.
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Shadowlands (1993) - IMDb  Biography  C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a ... With Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes, Roddy Maude-Roxby. ... C.S. Lewis is the author of the "Chronicles of Narnia" books.
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The Chronicles of Narnia - Wikipedia
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University of Pardubice Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Mythological ...  As G. K. Chesterton said: Fairy Tales are more than true; not .... Tolkien's work commercially and at the turn of the twentieth century the fans of ..... and wizards, Icelandic collections of epic poetry Edda, Icelandic Saga of the Nibelungs ..... descendants of Cain: "eotenas ond ylfe . . . ond orcneas" (giants and elves and...
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Biography  The Tolkien Society  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, ... version of our world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. ... Please note also that his name is spelt Tolkien (there is no Tolkein). ... The West Midlands in Tolkien's childhood were a complex mixture of the grimly...