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Sounds like the kind of book I would enjoy, if only (for I have devoured this series many times) as hobbits delighted in books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions. :D

(I have some ideas, but I was quite unwell last weekend - enough to take a Covid test but mercifully it came up negative. I have some ideas jostling for attention, the oldest of which is at least as old as the idea for this whole Woods/Fountain/Gardener sequence. I will start bashing it down and...

As to the first, "Miss Railly" is the central character in Plumbing the Depths (it's lurking somewhere in the recesses of this forum); it's pronounced "Rye", and as The Plumber explains when he gives her the lion, which is addressed to her with a three-syllable name she hasn't seen for many...

“Woman, why do you weep?” said the gentle voice of a strange man after a long while. Supposing him to be the gardener, Susan answered: “Because this is a cruel mirror, and shows things that are not, and that cannot ever be again; and it seems that it shows them to wound me.” The voice said...

It was impossible to say how long the falling sensation went on for. Time didn’t seem to mean much any more. But it was not for ever, and then sight and sound and the other senses came back quite abruptly, beginning with the realization that her feet were wet. As her eyes opened, they took in a...

(New readers: Some years ago I posted a story called Plumbing the Depths in which a repairman who was called in to replace a radiator in a retirement home had a long conversation with one of the residents, a Miss Railly (pronounced "Rye"). At the end of the conversation the repairman presented...

While a mere 61, I am having to come to terms with the fact that in many circles (not all; the church where I play organ is a notable exception) I'm the oldest or among the oldest. Aside from the odd minor niggle and gradually starting to say goodbye to one tooth after another, I really can't...

I shouldn't worry too much about electromagnetic fields if I were you. Every crank and his brother has had something to say about it for years. You might as well worry about dihydrogen monoxide, which is indeed pernicious stuff: a component of most industrial acids which, however, is completely...

Please! I can take only so much. If BBC Studios can make such a horror comic out of The Watch, blithely changing characters to be Black or female or whatever else they please for the sake of whatever tin gods we have to appease this decade, I dread to think what Netflix could do with something...

This old chestnut? chuckles Publication order. Trace the development of the world as it unfolded in the mind of the author. Enjoy wondering who or what "Aslan" might be as you work your way through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I've read 'em both ways round and wot whereof I speak :)

First I saw* was the BBC TV series, live actors. Obviously not CGI-quality visuals but did a very good job of adapting the books (tho' I thought Lucy was horribly miscast, which is hardly the fault of the child actor in question). They rolled up PC and VotDT into one series, and got as far as...

By kind permission of the Moderators: Hello, it has been quite a while. I have recently taken the step of publishing some of my writing for Kindle and it is now available for download via Amazon. None of it is Narnian in nature, but I do have a choice of three different genres for the reader...

Hi, all, long time no post. Thought you'd like to hear that I will be appearing in a local amateur production of Shadowlands, a play inspired by C. S. Lewis's autumn-of-life romance and marriage with Joy Gresham a.k.a. Joy Davidman. Most of you will know the story but for those who don't...

The Ruba'iya't of Aba-Nazar Awake! For Winter on the Shortest Day Flings playful Snowballs bidding Care away, And lo! the Beech-log on the Hearth ablaze Bids us prepare to make the Yule-tide Gay. You all did know how I - the Famous Grouse - Divorced old Humbug Christmas from my House, Banished...

The Song Of Ebenezer You shall hear how Scrooge the miser, How black-hearted Ebenezer, He the grasping moneylender, He, sharp-witted man of business, Learned to keep his Christmas rightly, Learned to please its mighty Spirits, Learned the meaning of compassion And for fellow-men the caring...

My elf-bard of Middle-Earth has been at it again. This time he is visiting Rohan, about 60 years after the War of the Ring, and performing before the now-ancient King Eomer: The grass grows tall and waves beneath the Sun In all the pleasant pastures of the Mark - Land of wild steeds that never...

(thank you, Pam Ayres.) Here's a verse form I'd never tried until recently, a sestina. It's a highly formal kind of verse which doesn't rhyme exactly - rather, the line-endings switch over from verse to verse according to a fixed pattern, which I'll leave it to the reader to work out. It always...

It was all on a sunny evening, after the heat of the day; Cloudless and blue the skies were, merry the month of May. Lambs in the meadow were gambolling, birds sang in all the trees, And scent in the air hung heavy from blossoms a-buzz with bees. There sat a saint at his verses, his back to the...

It is a King and his courtiers that are at their ease; and the King disporteth himself at the play of chess with his champion. But when the champion hath nearly given mate to the King, there ariseth a dispute over the rules of the game, and the champion saith thus, and the King saith so, and...

Just noticed these two thread titles one after the other... White Which=kirtle Lady? Stupid, Stupid Question... :D