Volume 3 Number 2 Article 8
1975
A Note on an Unpublished(and Probably Unwritten) Collaboration
J. R. Christopher
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Abstract Brief note explaining a reference to a forthcoming book by Lewis and Tolkien, Language and Human Nature, which was never written.
Additional Keywords Lewis, C.S. and J.R.R. Tolkien. Language and Human Nature (planned collaboration); Tolkien, J.R.R., and C.S. Lewis. Language and Human Nature (planned collaboration); Annette Harper
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Green Dragon' is quite a common pub name. Of A Note on an Unpublished course this is the sort of case where I ought to be able to put my finger on a dozen of them, but I can't (and Probably Unwritten) Collaboration even put my finger on one. If one saw a pub called . by J. R. Christopher 'The Green Dragon' one would think 'how common place a name! ' because it is. 'The Green Dragon', In Chad Walsh's C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skep 'The Georgian Dragon', 'The Kings Arms', 'The tics (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949), p. King's Head', 'The Queen's Arms' or head, 'The 10, it is mentioned that The Student Christian Move Crown and Anchor', 'The Royal Oak', 'Coach and ment Press had announced the forthcoming publica Horses', 'Fox and Goose' and of course 'The New tion of a co llab o ratio n by C. S. L ew is and J. R. R. Inn. ' They are all very common pub names. I Tolkien: Language and Human Nature (a fascinating don't think I've ever heard of a 'Prancing Pony' title). But Dr. Walsh reveals that this book is still outside of The Lord of the Rings though. In fact, in the blueprint stage. (Tolkien, by the way, is re as regards the commonness of 'The Green Dragon' ferred to as "Prof. F. R. R. Tolkien. ") it's mentioned in the first chapter of Chesterton's In Letters of C. S. Lewis, edited, with a mem Flying Inn. , where a great play is taken with oir, by W. H. Lewis (London, Geoffrey Bles, Ltd. , quite a number of common pub names. 'The Sara- 1966) , p. 222, Lewis writes on 12 January 1950, "My sen's Head' is another one that comes in in that context. ' book with Tolkien--any book in collaboration with that great, but dilatory and unmethodical man--is dated I I seem to be using this installment to catch up on fear to appear on the Greek Calends. " my correspondence. . .that's all I write about. But I Since the Greeks did not reckon time by Calends, ought to mention one other letter from a former TSA and since Lewis and Tolkien are both dead, the vol member; this letter about a year old. It's from Jan ume is fated never to appear. Perhaps part of what Finder who is now in Germany and who wrote: Lewis would have contributed appears in his Studies I was in Stuttgart to speak to the German publish in Words (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University ers of The Lord of the Rings. It is not selling Press, Second Edition with Three New Chapters, well and they wanted advice in how to hyper sales, 1967) . Perhaps part of what Tolkien would have con especially on the new paperback edition scheduted to tributed appears in his "English and Welsh" (in Angles appear in the Fall. My basic feeling was that $35 and Britons (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1963) for the books was a hell of a lot of money. More pp. 1-41). But one cannot help wondering what the over, 12 bucks for the paperback was also too steep. relationship between language and human nature is-- We did kick around some ideas but I don't think it especially one which would interest the Student Chris will help as long as the books cost so much. " tian Movement Press. 29