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C.S. Lewis

Past Watchful Dragons Conference Update

March 24, 2005 Paul Martin
The website for the “‘Past Watchful Dragons’: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis” conference to be held November 3-5, 2005 on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (which will include The Nashville Symphony’s performance of Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings Symphony) has been thoroughly updated to include the specific details about the event. Online registration and ticket sales begin April 1, 2005. The Call for Papers remains open through May 1, 2005.

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C.S. Lewis

Kiwi film connection for Tolkien and Lewis

July 19, 2004 Paul Martin
Fathers of fantasy C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien shared a literary legacy; a love of initials and a desire to spread the Christian message through tales of myths and monsters.

Now the imagined lands of the friends – and rivals – who spent their lives creating “other worlds” are being recreated in the same country, New Zealand.

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Understanding The Lord of the Rings

June 4, 2004 Paul Martin
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.

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