Inklings

[Solly]

Discuss

[yxboom]

That looks like a lip...

[Dee Dee Warren]

Huh???

[Captain Ochre]

For those who are drawing a blank, the Inklings were C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield. J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams--among others.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/inkring.htm

I haven't read anything by Barfield or Williams (I've heard great stuff about the latter).
I'm definitely a fan of Dorothy Sayers, who was a contemporary if not an Inkling.
An Inklings thread has great possibilities!

[Solly]

03-09-2003 @ 05:26 PM
Captain Ochre:

For those who are drawing a blank, the Inklings were C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield. J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams--among others.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/inkring.htm

I haven't read anything by Barfield or Williams (I've heard great stuff about the latter).
I'm definitely a fan of Dorothy Sayers, who was a contemporary if not an Inkling.
An Inklings thread has great possibilities!

I am reading Williams at the moment. His books are great, real spiritual thrillers which also challenge you. (It does help if you have some knowledge of mythology etc.) I haven't read Barfield either, since he is (still alive I think) a theosophist associated with Steiner.
Dorothy Sayers: my favourite Dante translator. Looking for her two books on Dante. Read "The Man who would be King", pretty good. Don'yt like the detective stuff though.

[The Curtmudgeon]

I'm still at a loss as to what is wanted here. Are we to:

Talk about how much we like or dislike the Inklings and their works? I think that Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams are wonderful wrtiers; haven't read any others (knowingly); haven't read Williams in years, though.
Talk about specific points about the Inklings' writings, e.g. how Numenor was first mentioned (i.e., published) not in Tolkien's writings at all, but in Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet, and its consequent mispeling as 'Numenore'? JRRT was very nearly angry--I mean really angry!--with CSL over that gaff, and took it as a personal slight. CSL apologised, but Tolkien was apparently still steamed over it years later, judging from letters.
Talk about writings about the Inklings, e.g. Humphrey Carpenter's book The Inklings? Read it years ago, when first published, but sadly can't recall much detail of it now. Need to go dig it out and re-read it, if I had the time.


The (spilling much ink) Curtmudgeon

[Wesley's son]

I thought Clive and JRR were buds?:huh:

and to the location of The Curtmudgeon:

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[brother vinny]

03-21-2003 @ 12:51 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=41787#post41787)
Wesley's son:

I thought Clive and JRR were buds?:huh:

Being someone's friend does not mean one is immune to perceived slights, no matter how unintentional.

Wasn't Hugo Dyson part of this group? There a humorous anecdote about him giving a public reading of LOTR, at which one point he stopped short and said, "Oh no, not another f---ing elf!"

[Bill the Cat]

I'm watching LOTR 1 right now. Thank God for DVDs