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Article: The siege of Narnia.(Faith matters)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- January 24, 2006
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MY CLASS ON the Inklings (C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and their circle) met on Tuesdays and Thursdays last semester, just in time for elevenses. A master baker in the class provided Lembas, which we found remarkably sustaining. Turkish delight was selling out all over the country, but we managed to locate a supply and discovered we were immune to its sticky spell. The class linguist instructed us in Quenya and Sindarin. The class geologist taught us to identify glacial moraines in Middle-earth. We discussed pre-Inklings like Spenser, Milton and Dante. We sank the songs of Tom Bombadil, studied the social hierarchy of Malacandra, and saw how the ...