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Down the pub with Tolkien and C. S. Lewis

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Down the pub with Tolkien and C. S. Lewis

Postby Karen » September 27th, 2007, 1:10 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Postby Sven » September 27th, 2007, 7:52 pm

I think the reviewer, Jon Barnes, needs a fact checker. I really would have expected better from the Times Literary Supplement. The name isn't "E. R. Edison", it's "E. R. Eddsion", and he was never a member of the Inklings. The error wasn't the author of the book reviewed. On page 13, under the heading 'Guests and Gate-Crashers', Glyer mentions the two times the Inklings met Eddison, on 17 February 1943 and 8 June 1944. On the second occasion he brought along the rough draft of The Mezentian Gate to read to the group.
Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Postby A#minor » September 27th, 2007, 9:23 pm

"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton
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Postby Sven » September 27th, 2007, 9:47 pm

heh, that'll teach me!
Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Postby Stanley Anderson » September 27th, 2007, 9:54 pm

I heard that expanded ending read aloud many years ago up in a park in Los Angeles for one of the (then - not sure if they are still held) annual Bilbo and Frodo Baggins' birthday parties picnics (on Sept 22). I remember how satisfying it was to hear it -- sort of like finding out about an undiscovered Beatles song or the ending to The Dark Tower:-). But I suppose it was wise to end the book where the published one ends.

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…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby aToaster » December 23rd, 2007, 8:28 pm

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Postby A#minor » December 23rd, 2007, 11:45 pm

"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton
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Postby Dan65802 » January 2nd, 2008, 6:49 pm

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King
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Postby Stanley Anderson » January 7th, 2008, 1:40 pm

...at which point the dragon says, "At your service" and hands each of them card reading "Sehnsucht Gesundhiet, Esq, Attorney at Law. 'Burned lately? Burn 'em back. Results guaranteed'".

--Stanley
…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby rusmeister » January 7th, 2008, 2:24 pm

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
Bill "The Blizzard" Hingest - That Hideous Strength
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