Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 4th

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (2/4) in 1933 Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves about reading a draft of The Hobbit (not published till ’37).

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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)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis had a debate in the late 1940’s with whom and what was it about?
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Jack & Tollers MOVIE

Many Lewis fans are excited (and rightly so) about news of a new Narnia movie. Realistically, however, that movie (The Silver Chair) will not be released until 2017 or 2018 (if you haven’t heard about this you can read my previous post about it). In the meantime I’m please to announce another movie in the works that will be out much sooner that deals with the true story of the unique friendship between Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
It’s called JACK AND TOLLERS. The screen writers are the two people (Darren Jacobs and Dr. Louis Markos) who had work on The Lion Awakes project. In the coming days I hope to have them on my podcast show (All About Jack) to give you more details (and to explain why the previous project didn’t work out). For now, I want to encourage you to visit and LIKE the Facebook page of the studio doing the project. This will do two things: 1.) It will let them know of your interest in the film and 2.) You’ll be able to get updates about what’s happening in your FB News Feed.

The Christian World of The Hobbit Podcast Series

The Christian World of The Hobbit Podcast Series with Dr. Devin Brown & Sørina Higgins This short-term series produced and directed by William O’Flaherty takes a chapter by-chapter look at The Christian World of The Hobbit. Each program is 15-20 minutes long. Here are the previously released shows: Episode 1: “An ‘Essentially’ Christian Story” Episode 2: “’Luck of an …