Volume 7 Number 2 Article 18 6-15-1980 An Inklings Bibliography (13) Joe R. Christopher (emeritus) Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Christopher, Joe R. (1980) "An Inklings Bibliography (13)," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 7 : No. 2 , Article 18. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol7/iss2/18 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON July 31 - August 1, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday) http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm Mythcon 52: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico; July 29 - August 1, 2022 http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm Abstract A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings. Additional Keywords M.J. Johnson; Andy E. McIlbain This article is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol7/iss2/18 OWEN BARFIELD I N SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (2) GLEN DOOKNIGHT The reason this is entitled (2) is a very fine report on Owen Barfield's previous visit to Southern California at Redlands University in the Spring of 1969 that appeared in MYTHLORE 4, w ritten by Rand Kuhl. The drawing is the same one that appeared with that report. The most recent v isit was at California State Univer­ sity at Fullerton, February 26-28. I became apprised of the details of his visit by Bruce Weber of the faculty of CSUF, who was one the prime movers in arranging this v isit. The visit was highlighted by an address of the topic "Evolution" on the 26th and a question and answer session on the Ink­ lings on the 28th. Following the question and answer ses­ sion there was a reception jointly hosted by The Mythopoeic Society and the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society. It was a pleasant time of chatting and book signing by Mr. B a r f ie ld . After Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams, Owen Barfield is the Now at the age of 81, Owen Barfield has seen a new rise fourth best known member of the Inklings. He was a life-long of Interest in his thought and writings over the last best friend of C.S. Lewis, who waged "the Great War" with him decade and a half, particularly in the United States. His on philosophical matters. This is covered by Humphrey Car­ books on philosophy are not easy reading, but some feel penter's book The Inklings. Admirers of C.S. Lewis might they point to a new world-view that provides solutions to make the mistake of viewing Barfield's importance primarily some of the thornier problems of current scientific philo­ as Lewis' friend and not considering his importance in his sophy. Barfield is considered one of the most important own right — as writer and philosopher. A very good intro­ philosophers of this century, albeit this recognition has duction can be found in Romantic Religion: A Study of Barfield, been a long time in coming. Lewis, Williams, and Tolkien by R.J. R eilly. AN INKLINGS BIBLIOGRAPHY (13) COMPILED BY JOE R. CHRISTOPHER N icholls, Peter (ed.). Science Fiction at Large: A collection him by his m ortal Enemy, Gollum, who is , however, his kinsman, of essays, by various hands, about the interface between his brother, in fact him self. [Moreover, FrodoJ has to go on, science fiction and reality . New York: Harper and Row, 1976. leave home, make the voyage out, in fact die—something fantasy 224 PP- [Lewis, 132; Tolkien, 20-21, 159-160.] heroes never do, and allegories are incapable of doing" (p. 21). N icholls explains in his "Introduction" that these essays were (b) Alan Garner, "Inner Time", pp. 119-138 [Lewis, 132]. read at an In stitu te of Contemporary A rts in London, between Gamer w rites a very personal essay, about his nervous problems January and March, 1975 (with one exception, when the speaker and th eir solutions. He describes the relief and new energy became ill and could not deliver the paper). There are eleven gained from the removal of a psychological blockage in these essays, seven by science-fiction (or fantasy) w riters, four by term s, in addition to the more personal ones: "The involvement respectable names in other fields (such as Alvin T offler, author of an academ ically-trained Western mind with a prim itive catas­ of Future Shock). Three of the essays mention Lewis or Tolkien: trophic process (that is, the waking experience of A ljira, (a) Ursula K. Le Guin, "Science Fiction and Mrs Brown", pp. Dream-time, the Illud Tempus of anthropology) is not always 13*33 [Tolkien, 20-21J. Le Guin w rites one of the better es— pleasant, but it is never far from what C. S. Lewis calls 'Jo y ', says, discussing characterization in science fiction and using and I would have it no other way" (p. 132). V irginia W oolf's "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown" as her startin g (c) Peter N icholls, "Science Fiction: The Monsters and the point. She uses The Lord of the Rings as her example of C ritics", pp. 157-183 [Tolkien, 159-160]. Nicholls points out characterization in fantasy: ". .a s traditional myths and his adaptation of the title of Tolkien's essay "Beowulf: The folktales break the complex conscious daylight personality down Monsters and the C ritics", but the rest of N icholls' essay into its archetypal unconscious dreamtime components . so does not make a point analogous to T olkien's—the monsters are Tolkien . broke Frodo into four: Frodo, Sam, Smeagol, and not the bug-eyed monsters and other aliens of science fiction Gollun; perhaps five, counting Bilbo. Gollura is probably the but bothersome aspects of the 3F field itse lf: The Sentim ental best character in the book because he got two of the components, S ty list, The Blurb W riter, The Insufficiently Monstrous Alien, Smeagol and Gollum. Frodo him self is only a quarter or The Monster of Anarchy (actually a discussion of the methods a fifth of him self. Yet even so he is something new to fantasy: of depicting anarchy), and The Monster of F ulfilled Promise a vulnerable, lim ited, rather unpredictable hero, who finally (the w riter who repeats him self). The types of critics receive fails at his own quest . and has to have it accomplished for equally cute title s. 42 Scott, Nan C. L. "A V isit with Tolkien". The Living Church, and Tolkien, p. 114; Williams, pp. 93, 116, 241n, 242n], 176:6 (5 February 1978), 11-12 [Lewis and W illiam s, 12J] at one point traces the defense of fairy tales from George (With a photograph of Tolkien and Scott on p. 11.) MacDonald (and, behind him, Coleridge) through Chesterton Scott te lls of two v isits to Tolkien in 1966, and quotes five to Lewis and Tolkien; also, Metcalf cites Williams' coranents from him and paraphrases others. There is nothing Poetry at Present and The English Poetic Hind, s a y in g in startling in her m aterial, but she includes a satisfactory, his footnote on the former that its essay "Gilbert Keith brief introduction to Tolkien's w ritings and C arpenter's biog­ Chesterton", is, "along with [Jorge Luis] Borges' essay, raphy, with emphasis on The Lord of the Rings. The Silm arillion, the best criticism of Chesterton known to me" (p. 241n). and "On Fairy-Stories". She is good on the differences in genre (e) John Sullivan, "A Liberal Education", pp. 171-181 between the two M iddle-earth narratives: "To criticize The S il- [Lewis, pp. 172-173], mentions Lewis, along with William m a ri l l i o n for failing at what it does not seek to do is, it Empson, as being among the very small number of "dons" who seans to roe, to blame a perfectly good cat for not being a dog have recognized Chesterton's sheer existence. or horse. The Lord of the Rings presents the subject m atter of heroic romance in the clothing of a modem novel, The Silm aril- lio a keeps company with myth, legend, epic, and scripture" (p. ll). The most interesting of the new comments are Tolkien's comparison of him self to Bilbo, his exclamation over how "dread­ ful" W illiam s' books are, and his deprecation of a comparison of Sauron and H itler. His paraphrased comment of dislike of the Naraian books is not the usual statem ent against Lewis's sentim entalized mythology but specifically because of th eir nature as religious allegory. Simbelmyne. January 1980, 1 p. Edited by Rumil of Cameloford. Published monthly, free in exchange for a self-addressed, stamped envelope (181.6 Bundy S treet, Scranton, Pennsylvania I 85O8). This fanzine is supposed to be a two-page production, but th is issue is reproduced on one side of a sheet of white paper the size of ordinary typing paper; it contains a lis t of sixteen V alar, with the meanings of th eir names, epithets, etc.