This morning, I visited an English class at Petoskey High School. We talked about how Tolkien pursued his private hobby of invented languages, and how he expressed his creative world in poetry and myth. We looked at his friendship with C. S. Lewis and considered the implications of Tolkien's claim that Lewis is the one [...]
In my lecture this weekend, I'll talk about Tolkien's poem "The Tale of Tinuviel." Here is a link to a recording of Tolkien reading that incomparable poem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhDgJwcJcVk&feature=related
"The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinuviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe [...]
Wheaton College and the good folks at the Wade Center do a *GREAT* job of introducing speakers. This press release comes from their website:
October 20, 2010
Author Diana Glyer to Speak at the Wade Center on
“C.S. Lewis’s Fingerprints on the Map of Middle-Earth”
Author Diana Pavlac Glyer, presents a lecture titled “C.S. Lewis’s Fingerprints on the Map of Middle-Earth,” [...]
AslansCountry.com did a nice job describing the C.S. Lewis Literary Festival, comping up this October in Petoskey, Michigan.
Take a look: http://www.aslanscountry.com/2010/09/2010-c-s-lewis-festival/
Several years ago, I did an interview about Lewis and Tolkien for the Mars Hill Audio Journal. The folks at Mars Hill make it easy to purchase the MP3, CD, or cassette of this interview and others.
It's a wonderful resource. Here's a link:
http://www.marshillaudio.org/resources/volume_contents.asp?segmentVolumeID=088
Creativity=Skill+Persistence+One Crazy Concept.
http://www.matchstickmarvels.com/MinasTirith.htm