QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and profound reflection have gone to make everything in it so ripe, so friendly, and in its own way so true.” A World …
CSL Daily 02/04/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children’s story which Tolkien has just written.” Letter to Arthur Greeves on 2/4/1933 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On February 4, 1933 Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves about reading a …
CSL Daily 12/16/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the Hobbit” …
CSL Daily 10/02/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published on Oct. 2, 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and …
CSL Daily 02/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On February 4, 1933 Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves about reading a draft of The Hobbit (not published till ’37). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children’s story which Tolkien has just written.” Letter to Arthur Greeves on 2/4/1933 …
CSL Daily 12/16/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the Hobbit” in the preface of Essays Presented to Charles Williams (a book Lewis edited and published in 1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a …
CSL Daily 10/02/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’ views on The Hobbit was published on Oct. 2, 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and …
CSL Daily 2/4/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On February 4, 1933 Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves about reading a draft of The Hobbit (not published till ’37). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children’s story which Tolkien has just written.” Letter to Arthur Greeves …
CSL Daily 12/16
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the Hobbit” in the preface of Essays Presented to Charles Williams (a book Lewis edited and published in 1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not …
Bilbo’s Journey (Dr. Joseph Pearce) 2016r
Here’s another show first released in 2013, but not available again until now because I changed where my podcast audio is hosted. It’s a book interview about that’s mostly indirectly related to Lewis. Dr. Joseph Pearce has written about Lewis, but this conversation focuses on a book he wrote about The Hobbit (a title that Lewis enjoyed greatly). …
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