Monthly Archives: January 2018

C.S. Lewis on the Right Way to Read Classics

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Originally posted on Love and Mercy :
You probably know C.S. Lewis for his imaginative Narnia fiction or perhaps for his non-fiction works on Christianity, but many are unaware of the groundbreaking and brilliant work he did within his scholarly field.…

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“Inklings and Arthur Series Introduction” by David Llewellyn Dodds

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

It was as an ‘Arthurian’ that I first consciously encountered Charles Williams, with that adjective applying to both him and me. (I, ever since I was given Emma Gelders Sterne and Barbara Lindsay’s retelling, King Arthur and the Knights of … Continue reading →

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2017: A Year of Reading

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a … Continue reading →

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King Arthur Has Returned: TOC and Blurbs

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Originally posted on The Oddest Inkling:
Dear Readers: The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain is available on Amazon (where it is currently the #1 new…

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A Brace of Tolkien Posts for his 126th Birthday #TolkienBirthdayToast

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

To celebrate Tolkien’s twelfthty-sixth birthday on 3 January 2017, the Tolkien Society is once again raising a toast to the Professor. After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The Lord of the Rings, Frodo toasted his uncle’s birthday each … Continue reading →

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2017: My Year in Books: The Infographic

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

The house elves at Goodreads have produced a little infographic to capture my year in book reading. I love data, and I love when clever people create clever algorithms to capture trends in visual form. I’ll post my full, super … Continue reading →

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The Launch of The Inklings and King Arthur

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Today is the day that The Inklings and King Arthur is available now on Amazon and other bookseller lists. In 2013, a previously-unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien appeared: The Fall of Arthur, his only explicitly Arthurian writing.  The publication of this poem highlighted the … Continue reading →

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