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New parking facility endangers the woods that helped inspire Narnia
April Fools 2015 (This story was created for April Fools Day and is not true) By Ajnos Gamgee The woodland adjacent to The Kilns, CS Lewis' Oxford home for 33 years, is said to have been earmarked for development by Oxford City Transport. Parking space in the historic...
TLC Staff Consulted on the Writing of The Silver Chair
April Fools 2015 (This story was created for April Fools Day and is not true) By Tenethia South The staff of TLC have been invited to join a special team of writers who will be working alongside David Magee, assisting in the writing process of the script of The Silver...
Perelandra: The Opera (by Donald Swann)
By Ajnos GamgeeWhile CS Lewis' Space Trilogy is somewhat less well known than The Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis fans around the world recognise the brilliance of these beautiful science fiction tales that show a whole different side of Lewis' creative genius, especially...
The Eagle and Child to take a new name!
April Fools 2015 (This story was created for April Fools Day and is not true) By Always Narnian Remember the small Oxford Pub which the literary group called the Inklings used to frequent? It has just been revealed to the public that due to slow business and lack of...
The Wade Center: Keeping CS Lewis’ Memory Alive
by Gypsevedius LakotaSome of you have heard about the Marion E. Wade Center, others have not. In 1965, Clyde S. Kilby founded the Wade Center. Kilby was an English professor at Wheaton College in Illinois. He had the opportunity to meet C. S. Lewis in person, and then...
Tolkien’s and Lewis’ Thoughts on Fantasy & Fairy-stories
By Always NarnianWhat is fantasy? What comes to your mind when you hear the word? Dragons, wizards, fairies? The Merriam-Webster dictionary definitions of the word are: “something that is produced by the imagination: an idea about doing something that is far removed...
New papers by CS Lewis and Owen Barfield published by Journal of Inklings Studies
By AjnosDuring the 1920s, C.S. Lewis and fellow member of the Inklings, Owen Barfield, engaged in a series of philosophical and theological debates they liked to refer to as "The Great War". The Journal of Inklings Studies (an academic journal which is published twice...
The Mark Gordon Company to Become Independent Studio with Entertainment One
By Always NarnianAs many of you Narnia fans know, Mark Gordon of The Mark Gordon Company (associated with films such as Saving Private Ryan and television shows like Criminal Minds and Grey's Anatomy) was appointed as one of the producers of the planned The Silver...
Who Is Aslan?
By Tenethia “Who is Aslan? Why, he's only the king of the whole wood! The top geezer! The real king of Narnia!” – Mr. Beaver, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Walden Media film, 2005) When the Pevensies first arrived in Narnia, they didn't know or understand who...
