C.S. Lewis & The Inklings

While the Netflix adaptation of  Narnia has been pushed back to February 2027, Friends of Narnia will have at least to brand new adaptations of The Magician’s Nephew to look forward to adding to their […]

Hey, everybody! Welcome back to Tumnus’ Bookshelf, where we review any and all books written by, about, and inspired by CS Lewis, The Land of Narnia, and The Inklings. For this special edition review we […]

A supposal, a what if. C.S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia defined his work as a supposal rather than an allegory. “What might Christ become like if there really were a world […]

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim had a tricky job from the start. Tolkien only gives this story a small amount of space in the appendices, so the film had to […]

The Desolation of Smaug is the Hobbit film with the sharpest edge. It is less cozy, less introductory, and more openly driven by threat. The company has been on the road long enough now that […]

After the grandeur and finality of The Lord of the Rings, returning to The Hobbit is a different experience. The tone is lighter at first. The road is stranger. The danger takes longer to harden. […]

There are endings that tie things up, and there are endings that feel earned all the way down. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the second kind. This is a […]

I’m continuing my Middle-earth anniversary revisit with the film that had the hardest job in the trilogy: the middle chapter. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers does not get to be the beginning, […]