J.R.R. Tolkien

Overall, we received excellent praise and feedback about all our guests, especially scholars Peter Kreeft and Joseph Pearce, actor Tony Lawton and music artist, Fernando Ortega.

Brian Sibley, dramatist of BBC radio dramatisations of The Chronicles of Narnia, has launched his official web site with background information of his various projects past and present.

Tolkien’s friend C. S. Lewis takes up the question of why, if you have a serious comment to make about real life, you would drape it in a never-never land of your own. He shrewdly argues that it is because real life does have mythic and heroic qualities — in abundance.

With work under way on a film of CS Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, BBC News Online’s Greg McKevitt investigates the roots of its Belfast-born author and the Northern Ireland settings that fired his boyhood imagination.

Join The Mythopoeic Book Discussion Group in the cafe at Borders, 2235 Lancaster Drive NE, Salem, OREGON . The group, open to new members, meets at 7 the third Sunday of each month to discuss […]

J. R. R. Tolkien enjoys renewed popularity these days, thanks to the power of Hollywood — the Oscar-nominated film version of his trilogy “The Lord of the Rings.”

But without another power — C. S. Lewis’ friendship — Tolkien might never have found the encouragement to finish his massive, complex fantasy of hobbits, orcs and elves.