C.S. Lewis
Tomes to treasure: LWW comes in at #1
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. […]
The Hobbit
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. […]
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.
Narnia Books
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe makes list of Childhood Favorites!
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the 1950 fantasy tale by CS Lewis and the best loved of the Narnia Chronicles, came second in the survey carried out by the Cartoon Network, followed by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, published in 1883.
Tolkien also makes the list with the Lord of the Rings (#6) and the Hobbit (#8). […]