C.S. Lewis
Lecture: “Are the Chronicles of Narnia an Evangelistic Text?”
Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, MI, invites you to a lecture called: “Are the Chronicles of Narnia an Evangelistic Text?” Listen to the lecture now! […]
Inklings
C.S. Lewis
Lewis & Tolkien, faith & friendship
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. […]
Chronicles of Narnia
Hope professor offers ‘Narnia’ lecture
With the film release a week away, a Hope College professor wants to help moviegoers understand the symbolism in C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia.” […]
C.S. Lewis
Shadowlands of Narnia
IN ACCOUNTS OF 20TH-CENTURY LITERARY movements and happenings, the 1950s is often ignored. Yet this decade, viewed as a quiet time in English literature, birthed three of the greatest-ever series: Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy was completed, as was JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. And CS Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, seven volumes, topped them all. […]
Narnia Film News
Adamson credits Jackson’s Lord of the Rings for making LWW possible
ANDREW ADAMSON credits director PETER JACKSON’s success with THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy for convincing Hollywood big budget fantasy adventures are what cinema audiences want to see. […]
C.S. Lewis
Lecture at Cuyahoga Community College’s Eastern Campus feat. Tolkien, Lewis
On Thursday, November 17 at Cuyahoga Community College’s Eastern Campus, Tri-C professors Laura Blunk and Marueen Morley will deliver a lecture titled “Storytellers for Our Times: J.R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.†[…]
C.S. Lewis
Lewis & Tolkien Biographer George Sayer Dies
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.
C.S. Lewis
A Man and His Myths
In 1949, the year he finished writing “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” C. S. Lewis was leading at least four different lives. His reputation as a Christian apologist had already been launched with several books and a series of BBC radio speeches. He was a charismatic Oxford professor, an expert in Milton and Spenser. […]
C.S. Lewis
Narnia author wipes the paramilitaries off the wall
The creator of the Narnia books has been enlisted to help wean a new generation off paramilitary activities in Northern Ireland. […]
C.S. Lewis
Narnia blockbuster spells a new chapter for CS Lewis
The upcoming movie adaptation of CS Lewis’s book, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is expected to set a new precedent. Far from sitting back and watching, publisher HarperCollins is working closely with filmmaker Walden Media, unleashing a massive, worldwide marketing drive for the books, timed to coincide with the film – and not only for The Chronicles of Narnia, but most of Lewis’s other books as well […]