We know this is a Narnia website, but seeing as how J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were friends, this is a very related article (and very exciting): In a Variety article talking about MGM’s move back into the tentpole business, the trade mentions a few highly-anticipated projects that are in the works: […]
That is the verdict of Britain’s librarians who have voted The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the most important book a child can read. […]
When C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien first met on May 11, 1926 at Oxford University, where Tolkien was a professor of English language and Lewis a professor of English literature, they initially didn’t hit it off. Tolkien didn’t think English literature held much academic validity. Lewis’ Protestant upbringing had taught him never to trust a “Papist”; Tolkien was Catholic. […]
George Sayer, author of Jack & recorder of the 1952 home-made tapes of Tolkien reading from The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, died recently in Malvern, Worcs.
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