An influence on the 80s movie “Cat People” was Charles Williams. Going to have to re-watch that. #inklings https://fellowshipandfairydust.com/2023/04/17/inklings-and-shapeshifters-charles-williams-theology-and-paul-schraders-cat-people/

This piece imagines how JRR Tolkien would have regarded AI-generated texts.
#Tolkien #ChatGPT #inklings
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-vs-machines-why-intrusion-ai-authorship-matters-miriam-ellis

I'll be following the progress of this project: #Arthurian #Inklings

https://theoddestinkling.wordpress.com/2023/03/09/beginning-my-lifes-work/

I don’t have time to draw currently but my youngest son wanted me to share his art of Ayo 🇫🇷/Callie 🇬🇧, as she appears in Splatoon 3 in the tableturf battle mode.

This is one of his first art with an iPad/Procreate!

#splatoon #splatoon3 #fanart #ayo #callie #videogame #inklings

Why Turkish Delight in the Narnia stories?

https://daily.jstor.org/turkish-delight/

I recently wondered if the luscious descriptions of food in the Narnia stories were influenced by the scarcity of food during wartime rationing

#Narnia #food #TurkishDelight #RahatLoukoum #Inklings #CSLewis #rationing #1940s

#Inklings #CSLewis #Tolkien #CharlesWilliams

https://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2016/03/aslan-in-1931.html

Is this the first appearance of Aslan in literature? Written by Charles Williams and first published in 1931 here we meet a tremendous lion. My question… was C.S. Lewis influenced by this passage in his invention of Aslan two decades later? At the time it was written, Jack and Charles had not met, nor did they know each others work. I’d be very interested in any comments.

#Inklings

March for Strings, Kettledrums, and Sixty-three Dwarfs
You simply MUST see this…

https://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2016/03/narnian-suite-1.html

#Inklings From a letter, by CS Lewis

Nothing much has happened to me except that I saw a rabbit yawn. I suppose people who keep tame ones have seen it often but this was a wild rabbit and I thought it a v. curious sight. It was a very bored triangular yawn in the middle of a long hot afternoon...

C.S. Lewis
December 23rd, 1947

#Inklings

Neville Coghill habitually took notes at lectures and minutes of meetings in Chaucerian English, just a small sample will suffice from 1923, never mind the context!

“Sir Lewis was ther; a good philosópher
He hadde a noblé paper for to offer.
Well couthe he speken in the Greeké tongue;
And yet, his countenance was swythé yong.”

All My Road Before Me, Page 192

#Inklings

On the anniversary of Charles Williams death in 1998, I with a friend sought out his grave in the graveyard of St. Cross Church, Oxford. We attached the following of Charles' poems to his grave (changing 'house' in the first line for 'grave') and sat a while in the Spring sunshine thinking of him and his work. More here…

https://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-carol-of-amen-house.html

#Inklings
A connection between the Inklings and James Bond? Surely not, and yet…

https://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2012/12/vladek-kronsteen-sheybal.html

#Inklings

The Geste of Beren and Luthien

Book XIII.

Into the vast and echoing gloom,
more dread than many-tunnelled tomb
in Labyrinthine pyramid
where everlasting death is hid,
down awful corridors that wind
down to a menace dark enshrined;
down to the mountain's roots profound,
devoured, tormented, bored and ground
by seething vermin spawned of stone;
down to the depths they went alone.

(J.R.R. Tolkien)

#Inklings
A visit to The Kilns, Jack Lewis home on the fringes of Oxford, now fairly close to the ring road. https://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2009/11/visit-to-kilns.html

#Inklings
Dec. 15th 1945:
“... I am (these last 6 months) immersed in a v. different poet who I think great – Charles Williams: the two volumes of his Arthurian poems Taliessin and The Region of the Summer Stars. Inexcusably difficult, as I always told him, but here there really is something behind the difficulty – that something wh. we all need most in literature at present & wh. I wd. call opaque splendour – thick, rich, solid, heavy – porphyry, gold diamond.”

CS Lewis ~ Collected Letters

#Inklings
Sam singing to the Company on Weathertop…

#Inklings The Tolkien grave at Wolvercote, Oxford.

Tolkien’s relationship to Edith, and his deep love for her are perhaps even more romantic than his fictional treatment of the subject. To be Luthien, the most beautiful and desired of her people in Tolkien’s eyes, was the highest regard he could possibly give a woman. Further it expresses Tolkien as almost feeling he doesn’t quite deserve the grace that is Luthien, even though Beren, and Tolkien are worthy men.

2022 recap art or something idfk
#splatoon #splatoon2 #splatoon 2 #splatoon3 #inkling #inklingboy #inklings #meme #shitposts #shitpostart #artist

my followers fav little cryptid critter
#splatoon #splatoon3 #splatoon 3 #splatoon 2 #inkling #inklingboy #inklings

#Inklings In the Oxford Crematorium... off the ring-road at Headington, and just outside the furthest chapel from the entrance... there is a small plaque on the wall. It was placed there at the behest of C.S. Lewis following the death of his beloved wife Joy Davidman.

#Inklings CS Lewis ‘Eden’s Courtesy’…

Such natural love twixt beast and man we find
That children all desire an animal book,
And all brutes, not perverted from their kind,
Woo us with whinny, tongue, tail, song, or look;
So much of Eden's courtesy yet remains.
But when a creature's dread, or mine, has built
A wall between, I think I feel the pains