Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship by Colin Duriez

Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship Colin Duriez ebook
Publisher: Paulist Press
Page: 256
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781587680267

Aug 24, 2011 - It's the best biography on C.S. Lewis: the Gift of Friendship by Colin Duriez. Lewis and included friends like J. Humphrey Carpenter, in I love the quote from Lewis that “There's no sound I like better than adult male laughter” (cited in Walter Hooper, C.S. And those friends were persuasive! Sep 12, 2012 - One thing that has struck me in my background reading is the unique friendship shared by Lewis and Tolkien, particularly as it was manifested in the regular meetings of the “Inklings.” Indeed, it was this Life—natural life—has no better gift to give. Oct 30, 2013 - Lewis brought the best out of Tolkien through the gift of friendship. Tolkien (best known for the The Lord of the Rings trilogy). Lewis: A Companion and Guide [HarperCollins, 1996], p. Apr 11, 2014 - At Oxford, he often debated philosophy and religion with several Christian friends including J.R.R. Dec 30, 2012 - The Bird & Baby, as the pub is known to locals, was the scene of the Tuesday morning meetings of the Inklings, the literary group that gathered around C. Nov 22, 2013 - Clive Staples Lewis (“Jack” to his friends) was born on 29 November 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the second son of Albert Lewis, a promising attorney and his wife, Florence (“Flora”), daughter of an Anglican clergyman and He was helped by various other scholars like Neville Coghill (1899–1980, a Chaucer expert), J.R.R.