1. Dusting for Fingerprints
p. 4 “anything more to say” (Tolkien, Letters 24)
p. 5 “Christmas vacation” and “‘hobbit talk’ amuses me” (Tolkien, Letters 36)
p. 6 “poor ruined Hobbit!” (Tolkien, Shadow 49–50)
p. 6 “poor old hobbit!” (Tolkien, Lord of the Rings 69–70)
2. “An Unexpected Party”
p. 11 “needs a smack” (Lewis, All My Road 393)
p. 11 “trust a philologist” (Lewis, Surprised 216)
p. 12 “biting the coals” (Lewis, They Stand 298)
p. 12 “sickening intensity” (Lewis, Surprised 17)
p. 12 “passion for things Norse” (Lewis, All My Road 448)
p. 12 “bear cubs” (Edmonds 45)
p. 13 “an unknown author” (Lewis qtd. in Tolkien, Lays 151)
p. 13 “grumbles at individual lines” (Lewis qtd. in Carpenter, Inklings 30)
p. 14 “thought of poetry” (Barfield, Owen Barfield 5–6)
p. 14 “pleasantest spots” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:16)
p. 14 “mythology grew up” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:230–31)
p. 15 “best loved men” and “fighting a duel” (Hooper, C. S. Lewis 644–45)
p. 15 “thoroughgoing supernaturalist” (Lewis, Surprised 226)
p. 15 “hideously shocked” (Lewis, Surprised 206)
p. 15 “Dangers lie in wait” (Lewis, Surprised 226)
p. 16 “entered a monastery” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:882–83)
p. 16 “reluctant convert” (Lewis, Surprised 228–29)
p. 16 “exhilarating” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 97)
p. 16 “loves truth” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:917–18)
p. 17 “it really happened” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:976–77)
p. 17 “immediate human causes” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:501)
p. 17 “thousands of soldiers” (West 82–83)
p. 17 “huddled for warmth” (Lewis, Surprised 19)
p. 17 “developing an affection” (Kirkpatrick qtd. in Hooper, C. S. Lewis 698)
p. 18 “engrossing tasks” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 75)
p. 18 “a pleasantly ingenious pun” and “half-formed intimations” (Tolkien, Letters 388)
p. 19 “influenza” (Havard 350)
p. 19 “keenly interested” (Sayer, Jack 151)
p. 19 “a group of us” (Oral history Interview with R. E. Havard, conducted by Lyle W. Dorsett for the Marion E. Wade Center [26 July 1984], page 15.)
p. 19 “dropping of the matter” (Lewis, Letters 33–34)
p. 20 “elected himself an Inkling” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 194)
p. 20 “Aberystwyth” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 200)
p. 20 “disapproved of the new candidate” (Grotta 93)
p. 20 “his essence escapes them” (Wain, Sprightly 147)
p. 21 “a disturbing experience” (Jones 120)
p. 21 “sheer force of love” (Hopkins ii)
p. 21 “discuss poetry or theology” (Carpenter, Inklings 86)
p. 21–22 “major literary events” et al. (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:183–84)
p. 22 “inward to the bone” (Lewis, Essays Presented viii)
p. 22 “looks like an angel” (Lewis, They Stand 500–501)
p. 22 “burning with intelligence” (Lewis, Essays Presented ix)
p. 22 “most angelic” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:652)
p. 23 “ready for it” (Lewis, Essays Presented x–xi)
p. 23 “their original colour” (Carpenter, Inklings 128)
p. 23 “decently arrive” (C. S. Lewis, Letters 33–34)
p. 24 “rolling off our chairs” (Havard qtd. in Hooper, Through Joy 89)
p. 24 “no mutual admiration society” (C. S. Lewis, Letters 34)
p. 24 “profuse and detailed” (Havard 351)
p. 25 “a tutorial” (Hooper, “Martlets” 40)
p. 25 “detraction, or accusations” (Tolkien, Letters 128)
p. 26 “no reading on Tuesday” (W. H. Lewis qtd. in Duriez and Porter 8)
p. 26 “morning sessions in a pub” (Carpenter, Inklings 185)
p. 26 “sustained serious discussion.” (Starr 122)
p. 26 “Homer quoted” and “declaiming in Anglo-Saxon” (Dundas-Grant 371)
p. 26 “talking bawdy” (Lewis, They Stand 501)
p. 26 “famous and heroic” and “rarely heard equalled”(Lewis, Letters 33–34)
p. 26 “learned, high-hearted” (Havard 352)
p. 27 “as good as anything” (Wain, Sprightly 184)
p. 27 “circle of Christian friends” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:363)
p. 27 “incalculable.” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:501)
p. 27 “Hwæt!” (Carpenter, Inklings 176)
p. 27 “a secret vision” (Lewis, Four Loves 68)
3. The Heart of the Company
p. 29 “must forgive me” (Williams, To Michal 242)
p. 29 “Gone with the Wind” (Betjeman 2)
p. 29 “hardly be better” (Williams, To Michal 243–44)
p. 29 “what the devil” (Lewis, Letters 223)
p. 30 “embarked on the impossible” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:496)
p. 30 “afraid of hidden errors” (Lewis, Coll. Letters III:149)
p. 30 “unceasing eagerness” (Tolkien, Letters 362)
p. 31 “politicians or scholars” and “misfits and malcontents” (Lewis, Reflections 94)
p. 31 “Praise for good work” (Lewis, Letters 34)
p. 32 “real magic” et al. (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 195–204)
p. 32 “it’s so clear” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:227–28)
p. 32 “they had not yet happened” (Williams, He Came Down 5–6)
p. 32 “last Monday’s address” (Williams, To Michal 44)
p. 33 “teaching Wisdom.” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:346)
p. 33 “Battle Hill” (W. H. Lewis, unpublished letter, 19 October 1937)
p. 34 “a dangerous moment” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:663)
p. 34 “drips with honey” (Lewis, unpublished letter, dated circa February 1930)
p. 34 “really great poems” (Lewis, unpublished letter, dated circa Fall 1926)
p. 34 “strong and savage” (Lewis, All My Road 53)
p. 34 “consoled him most” (Barfield, Owen Barfield 106)
p. 34 “seized a postcard” (Barfield qtd. in Huttar 108)
p. 35 “loudly recommended” (Tolkien, Letters 34)
p. 35 “great work of literature” (Tolkien qtd. in Carpenter, Inklings 182)
p. 35 “good in itself” (Carpenter, Inklings 198)
p. 35 “most interesting essay” (Tolkien, Letters 109)
p. 35 “very moving” (Tolkien qtd. in Kilby, Tolkien 77)
p. 35 “a great book.” (Tolkien qtd. in Sayer, Jack 197)
p. 35 “witty,” “very good,” and “very amusing” (Tolkien, Letters 71–84)
p. 35 “a vital gift” (Hadfield, Introduction 70)
p. 36 “twice as intelligent” (Williams, Descent of the Dove v)
p. 36 “found the gold” (Hopkins ii)
p. 36 “Better, Tolkien” (Tolkien, Letters 376)
p. 36 “nagging” (emphasis added, Lewis, Coll. Letters III:1458)
p. 36 “a procrastinator & a perfectionist” (Lewis, “Letter to Edmund R. Meškys” 23)
p. 36 “really good” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:96)
p. 37 “a new story” (Tolkien, Letters 27)
p. 37 “getting quite out of hand.” (Tolkien, Letters 40)
p. 37 “Tolkien was discouraged” (Tolkien, Treason 1)
p. 37 “did not know how to go on” (Tolkien, Letters 321)
p. 37 “hoped to finish” (Tolkien, Letters 58)
p. 37 “not a line” (Tolkien, Letters 86)
p. 37 “dead stuck” (Tolkien, Letters 321)
p. 37 “indefatigable man” et al. (Tolkien, Letters 68–70)
p. 38 “never have finished” (Shippey, Beyond)
p. 38 “due to the encouragement” (Carpenter, Souvenir Booklet)
p. 38 “bandersnatch” (Lewis, Coll. Letters III:1049)
p. 38 “the encouragement of C. S. L.” (Tolkien, Letters 366)
p. 38 “Only by his support” (Tolkien, Letters 184)
p. 38 “in spite of obstacles” (Tolkien, Letters 303)
p. 39 “write some ourselves” (Lewis qtd. in Tolkien, Letters 378)
p. 39 “an excursionary ‘Thriller’” (Tolkien, Letters 29)
p. 39 “Atlantis legend” (Tolkien, Letters 378)
p. 39 “The Lost Road” and “Númenor” (Tolkien, Lost Road 9)
p. 40 “labour was not wasted.” (Tolkien, Letters 209)
p. 40 “let it be supernatural” (Williams, To Michal 73)
p. 40 “impulse to write a play” (Barfield, Orpheus 7)
p. 41 “tears to my eyes” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:223)
p. 41 “dozed off again” (Dundas-Grant 372)
p. 42 “The Lewis Papers” (W. H. Lewis, unpublished letter, 22 Oct 1968)
p. 42 “do not see any danger” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 147)
p. 42 “It’s catching!” (Tolkien, Letters 71)
p. 42 “an historian” (Morgan 383)
p. 42 “wit and good sense” (Carpenter, Inklings 243)
p. 43 “not so bad” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 300)
p. 43 “Jack could knock down” (Barfield, Owen Barfield 127)
p. 44 “opening of a flower” (Knight 295)
p. 44 “good in quite another way” (Tolkien, Letters 366)
p. 44 “not even trying” (Lewis, Letters 430)
p. 45 “The covered bath” (Hadfield, Charles Williams 179)
p. 45 “see my refuge” (Williams, To Michal 18)
p. 45 “follies, and scares” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 265)
p. 46 “this interesting belief” (Wheeler 48–49)
p. 46 “give it back” and “get it out of him” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:198–99)
p. 47 “CSL’s Allegory of Love” (Williams, Letters to Lalage 66)
p. 47 “read Sir Gawain” (Lewis, Letters 285)
p. 47 “good characters” (Lewis, Letters 322)
p. 47 “warned and enlightened” (Williams, “Rev. of Screwtape” 170)
p. 47 “Snigsozzle” (Williams, “Letters in Hell” 245–46)
p. 47 “goodness working on goodness” (Williams, “Rev. of Problem of Pain” 62)
p. 48 “obviously knows” and “so ripe, so friendly” (Lewis, “Hobbit” 81–82)
p. 48 “nose for an elf” (Lewis, “Professor Tolkien’s” 20)
p. 48 “prove a classic” (Lewis, “Hobbit” 82)
p. 48 “break your heart,” et al. (Lewis, “Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings” 84–90)
p. 48 “Boramir” Lewis was a notoriously bad speller, especially when he attempted to write down the name of a character from a story he had only heard read aloud. His misspelling of “Boromir” here is an example.
p. 49 “its blaze” (Lewis, “Sacred” 268)
p. 49 “for Christmas presents” (C. Tolkien, Foreword Hobbit n. pag.) 4. “I’ve a good mind to punch your head.”
p. 53 “hungry for rational opposition” (see, for example, Tillyard and Lewis 41)
p. 53 “brutally frank” (Lewis, Letters 34)
p. 53 “criticism was free.” (Oral History Interview with R. E. Havard, conducted by Lyle W. Dorsett for the Marion E. Wade Center [26 July 1984], page 16)
p. 53 “dialectical swordplay” (Lewis, Letters 34)
p. 53 “a bit aggressive” (Barfield, Owen Barfield 127)
p. 53 “a peashooter against a howitzer” (Barfield, Owen Barfield 28)
p. 54 “rough academic arena” (Tillyard and Lewis 69)
p. 54 “punch your head” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:228)
p. 54 “drawing their guns” (Tolkien, Letters 103)
p. 54 “eminently combustible” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:283)
p. 55 “obscurity beyond belief” (Havard 351)
p. 55 “clotted glory from Charles” (Dyson qtd. in Lewis, Coll. Letters II:501)
p. 55 “make head or tail of it” (Auden ix–x)
p. 55 “mere butter bath!” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:186–87)
p. 55 “for all I was worth.” (emphasis added, Lewis, Coll. Letters II:819)
p. 56 “good for my mind.” (Williams, To Michal 89)
p. 56 “like a dogfight” (emphasis added, Lewis, Letters 179)
p. 56 “dogmatic pronouncements” (Tolkien, Letters 103)
p. 56 “man who disagrees” (Lewis, Surprised 199)
p. 56 “incessant disputation” (Lewis, Surprised 207)
p. 57 “how to think” (Barfield, Owen Barfield 9)
p. 57 “weakest portions” (Adey 13)
p. 57 “Opposition is true friendship.” (Barfield, Dedication, Poetic Diction n. pag.)
p. 57 “wake scared and unrefreshed” et al. (Williams, To Michal 163–71)
p. 59 “mainly due to C. S. L.” (Tolkien, Letters 349)
p. 59 “Well, I’m back.” (Tolkien, Lord of the Rings 1008)
p. 59–60 “the text continued” et al. The epilogue to The Lord of the Rings and Christopher Tolkien’s commentary on it are found in Sauron Defeated pages 114–35.
p. 60 “One must stop somewhere.” (Tolkien, Letters 179)
p. 60 “destroyed the ending” (Tolkien, Letters 227)
p. 61 “point about Virgil” and “gross understatement” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 198)
p. 61 “the nothingness of the utterness” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 257)
p. 62 “appropriate for an essay” (Barfield, Owen Barfield 37)
p. 62 “your ugly face” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:574–75)
p. 62 “polyvalence instead of multivalence?” (Lewis, Coll. Letters III:1328)
p. 62 “answering the question” (W. H. Lewis, unpublished letter, 2 July 1970)
p. 62–63 “far above his head” and “far too abstruse” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 273–75)
p. 63 “limited sympathies” (Tolkien, Letters 349)
p. 63 “My taste is not normal.” (Tolkien, Letters 34)
p. 63 “confusion of thought” (Tolkien, Letters 60)
p. 63 “new moral allegory” (Tolkien, Letters 71)
p. 63 “wherever I smell it” (Tolkien in a BBC interview, posted at http://daisy.freeserve.co.uk/jrrt_int.htm and accessed 20 May 2005.)
p. 63 “a fixed manner” (Tolkien, Letters 302)
p. 63 “would not be publishable.” (Tolkien, Letters 352)
p. 63 “to the public” (Dorsett, Seeking 58)
p. 64 “not a popular evangelist!” (Rogers 54)
p. 64 “animosity C. S. L. seems to excite” (Tolkien, Letters 184)
p. 64 “religious nature” (Tolkien qtd. in Hooper, Through Joy 125)
p. 64 “I’m hated” (Lewis qtd. in Mitchell, “Bearing” 7)
p. 64 “scholarly claim to the appointments.” (Mitchell, “Bearing” 8)
p. 65 “as bad as can be” (Tolkien qtd. in Sayer, “Recollections” 25)
p. 65 “Doesn’t he know what he’s talking about?” (Tolkien qtd. in Green and Hooper 241)
p. 65 “almost worthless” (Sayer, Jack 189)
p. 65 “disliked it intensely” et al. (Green and Hooper 241)
p. 65 “single imaginative country” (Graham 156)
p. 65–66 “mythological terms” and “a child’s story” (Christopher, “Narnian” 41)
p. 66 “His use of ‘Numinor’” (Carpenter, Tolkien 174)
p. 66 “mere jealousy” (Tolkien, Letters 127)
p. 67 “did not interfere” (Unpublished letter from Tolkien to Eileen Elgar, dated 24 December 1971 [private collection], qtd. in Long 39)
p. 67 “dislike allegory” (Tolkien, Fellowship xv)
p. 67 “My mind does not work allegorically.” (Tolkien, Letters 174)
p. 67 “entirely foreign” (Tolkien, Letters 307)
p. 67 “the evidence is rather against Tolkien” (Shippey, J. R. R. Tolkien 161)
p. 67 “urged her to read them” and “indifferent to Narnia”(Long 39–40)
p. 67 “outside the range of my sympathy” (Tolkien, Letters 352)
p. 68 “not inflict them on us” and “no picture of human life” (Wain, “John Wain” 329)
p. 68 “can’t get through it.” (Oral History Interview with Stella Aldwinckle, conducted by Lyle W. Dorsett for the Marion E. Wade Center [26 July 1985], page 45. Aldwinckle is describing a conversation with Owen Barfield.)
p. 68 “hard to take” (Havard 352)
p. 69 “didn’t like The Lord of the Rings” (Bratman 28)
p. 69 “felt a marked antipathy” (Wilson 216)
p. 69 “the anti-resonator” (Joe R. Christopher, personal correspondence)
p. 69 “a kind of ‘veto’” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 200)
p. 69 “a bit like that” (C. Tolkien, qtd. in “A Film Portrait”)
p. 69 “calls it unfair” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers, 200)
5. “Drat That Omnibus!”
p. 74 “translation of Beowulf” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:741)
p. 74 “textual indeterminancy” (Gere 75)
p. 74 “largely unintelligible fragments” (Tolkien, Letters 209)
p. 75 “18 different drafts” (http://www.marquette.edu/library, accessed 5 Sept. 2004)
p. 75 “over seven feet high” (Kilby, Tolkien 12)
p. 75 “in ‘phases’” (Tolkien, Shadow 3)
p. 75 “chop and change” (Tolkien, Shadow 35)
p. 75 “laboriously pondered” (Tolkien, Letters 160)
p. 75 “largely re-written backwards” (Tolkien, Fellowship xiv)
p. 75 “complex directions” (Tolkien, Shadow 133)
p. 76 “world it portrays” (emphasis added, C. Tolkien, Silmarillion 7)
p. 76 “never satisfied” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:631)
p. 77 “without a destination.” (Tolkien, Shadow 27)
p. 77 “The Hobbit sequel” and “anything new” (Tolkien, Letters 29)
p. 77 “It has lost my favour” et al. (Tolkien, Letters 38)
p. 77 “a white horse” (Tolkien, Shadow 47–48)
p. 78 “a black horse” (Tolkien, Lord of the Rings 73–74)
p. 79 “quite unforeseen goals” (Tolkien, Letters 40)
p. 79 “the new Hobbit” (Tolkien, Letters 40)
p. 79 “with that gravity” (emphasis added, Lewis qtd. in Kilby, Tolkien 76)
p. 79 “occupies the mind” (Tolkien, Letters 26)
p. 79 “Elvish tongues” (Tolkien, Letters 247)
p. 79 “endlessly interesting” (Kilby, Tolkien 26)
p. 80 “more Elvish” (Tolkien, Letters 216)
p. 80 “great depths within himself” (Knight 5)
p. 80 “never heard of the Inklings” (Carpenter, Inklings 160)
p. 80 “Crack my timbers” (Tolkien, Treason 419)
p. 81 “dare to come round” et al. (Tolkien, Shadow 290–99)
p. 82 “twopenny pad” et al. (Williams and Lewis, Arthurian 2–23)
p. 83–87 The rough draft and revised versions of Tolkien’s The Lay of Leithian are found in The Lays of Beleriand, pages 150–308. Lewis’s comments on The Lay of Leithian are found in The Lays of Beleriand, pages 315–29.
p. 87–89 All of Tolkien’s comments on the Saruman passage can be found in his response to Charlotte and Denis Plimmer, published in Tolkien’s Letters, pages 372–78. The rough draft of the passage is found in Tolkien’s War of the Ring, pages 30–67. The final version of the passage is published in The Lord of the Rings, pages 563–70.
p. 88 “dead stuck” (Tolkien, Letters 321)
p. 90 “a man revising” (Hooper qtd. in Phillips 113)
p. 90 “Dymer, for example” (Hooper, C. S. Lewis 145–47)
p. 91 “one word less wd. make all the difference.” (Lewis, They Stand 446)
p. 91 “exercise your textual criticism” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:527)
p. 91–92 “Drat that Omnibus!” et al. (Hooper, C. S. Lewis 103)
p. 92 “a few days” (Harwood 377)
p. 92 “change there” and “appeared in print” (Lewis, Poems vii–viii)
p. 92 “akin to parturition” (Havard 358)
p. 92–93 “hundreds of conversations” and “begin all over” (Morris 319–26)
p. 93 “immediate problem” and “What’s a chap to do?” (Lewis, Letters 424)
p. 93 “listen to what I said” (Gresham 2)
p. 94 “add a caution” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:942–43)
p. 94 “her face” and “very foolish” (Lewis, Lion 7)
p. 94 “not a magic one” (Lewis, Lion 27)
p. 95 “One listener complained” (Lewis, Mere Christianity 31)
p. 95 “a good many people” (Lewis, Mere Christianity 157)
p. 95 “going to tell you” (Lewis, Mere Christianity 119)
p. 95 “his own barriers” and “elusive and incalculable” (Lewis, Essays Presented x)
p. 96 “Lewis’s strengths and weaknesses” (Downing, Planets 35)
p. 96–97 “enthralling” et al. (Tolkien, Letters 32–33)
p. 97 “mere fiction” et al. (Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet 156–60)
p. 98 “life-long critic” (Lewis, Dedication, Out of the Silent Planet n. pag.)
p. 98 “time-travelling as well” (Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet 160)
p. 99 “thoughtful comments and practical suggestions” (Barfield, Foreword Saving n. pag.)
p. 99 “patience in listening” (W. H. Lewis, Sunset x)
p. 99 “corrections and suggestions” (Bennett, Parlement v)
p. 99 “advice and criticism.” (Lewis, English Literature vii)
p. 99 “minor problems” (Mathew, Court of Richard II xi)
p. 99 “frequent personal guidance” (Wrenn, A Study vi)
p. 99 “my approach to Beowulf” (Wrenn, Beowulf 5)
p. 99 “suggestions they have made” (Coghill, Poet Chaucer viii)
p. 100 “hard-hitting criticism” (Lewis, Essays Presented v)
6. Mystical Caboodle
p. 104 “less like a house” (Lewis, Surprised 9–10)
p. 104 “little end room” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:107)
p. 104 “every color” (Lewis, Surprised 14)
p. 105 “borrow from his friends” (Christopher, C. S. Lewis 2)
p. 105 “social life of the college” et al. (Baker 65–67)
p. 106 “produces the fun” and “round-robin story-telling” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:384–85)
p. 106 “magically changed” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:689–90)
p. 106 “Longus” (Barfield and Lewis, Cretaceous n. pag.)
p. 106 “glorious country” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:690)
p. 107 “in the metre of Hiawatha.” (Lewis, They Stand 352)
p. 107 “mystical caboodle” (Barfield and Lewis, Cretaceous n. pag.)
p. 107 “Button Moulder’s story” (Lewis, All My Road 60)
p. 107 “The Glass House” et al. (Green and Hooper 274)
p. 108 “A is the Absolute” (Barfield and Lewis, “Abecedarium” 298)
p. 109 “the best map reader” (Barfield and Lewis, Cretaceous n. pag.)
p. 109 “Soaking-Machine” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:119)
p. 109 “Jack smoked a cigarette.” (Sayer, Jack 207)
p. 110 “a peculiarly Oxonian character” (Tennyson xvi)
p. 111 “Language (Nature, Origins, Functions)” (Lewis, Letters 105)
p. 111 “in the blueprint stage” (Walsh 10)
p. 111 “SCRAPS” (Beebe 9)
p. 111 “Greek Kalends” (Lewis, Coll. Letters III:6)
p. 111 “a short Xtian Dictionary” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:721–22)
p. 112 “a book of animal stories” (Lewis, Essays Presented xii)
p. 112 “my own principles” (Lewis, Problem 9)
p. 112 “offered many suggestions” (Sayer, Jack 162)
p. 112 “effects of pain” (Lewis, Problem 143)
p. 112 “get it right” (Havard 356–57)
p. 113 “took the initiative” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:649)
p. 113 “offer as a memorial” (Lewis, Essays Presented vi)
p. 113 “corporate identity” (Carpenter, Inklings 224)
p. 114 “imperfectly, yet usefully” (Williams and Lewis 1–2)
p. 114 “technique is very different” (Mathew, “Williams and the Arthuriad” 14)
p. 114 “permanent member” (Tolkien qtd. in Carpenter, Inklings 205)
p. 115 “chief critic and collaborator” (Tolkien, Letters 118)
p. 115 “In a hole in the ground” (C. Tolkien, Foreword Hobbit n. pag.)
p. 115 “consistency of the story” (John Tolkien and Priscilla Tolkien, Family Album 58)
p. 115 “strode across the room” (C. Tolkien, Foreword Hobbit n. pag.)
p. 115 “paid him twopence” (Tolkien, Letters 28)
p. 115 “discussing the ideas” (John Tolkien and Priscilla Tolkien 73)
p. 115 “your opinion matters” (Tolkien, Letters 91)
p. 116 “made a better job of it” (Carpenter, Inklings 205)
p. 116 “started with a map” (Tolkien, Letters 177)
p. 116 “never make a map” (J. R. R. Tolkien: An Audio)
p. 116 “meticulous care for distances” (Tolkien, Letters 177)
p. 116 “My heart and mind is in the Silmarillion” (Tolkien, Letters 261)
p. 117 “his invented peoples” (Cater 91)
p. 117–19 “labyrinth of story” et al. (C. Tolkien, Silmarillion: A Brief Account n. pag.)
p. 117 “personal literary judgment” (C. Tolkien qtd. in Cater 94)
p. 118 “remained unpublished” and “his latest intention”(C. Tolkien, Sir Gawain 7–8)
p. 119 “the benefit of two lifetimes’ work” (Unwin 6)
p. 119 “collective action stage” (Farrell 286)
p. 120 “Well, we will.” (Lewis qtd. in Fox 187)
p. 120 “practising poets” (Tolkien, Letters 36)
p. 120 “demonstrate their power” (Carpenter, Inklings 163)
p. 120 “a final vote of 173 to 194” (Hooper, C. S. Lewis 56)
p. 120 “written The Screwtape Letters” and “‘merry’ despite the defeat” (W. H. Lewis, Brothers 239–40)
p. 121 “my friends seem to be upset” (Lewis, Letters 351)
p. 121 “Lewis was chosen unanimously” et al. (Hooper, C. S. Lewis 68)
p. 121 “You will not find the warrior” (Lewis, Four Loves 71)
7. Faces in a Mirror
p. 125 “talking of dragons” (Lewis, Rehabilitations 122)
p. 126 “Chaucerian verse” (Lewis, Selected Literary Essays x). Here’s a rough translation: “In Oxford, some accomplished students gathered in a good company. I was one, and you will note that the group was worthy and wise. Sir Lewis was there, a good philosopher. He offered us a noble paper. He spoke Greek very well, and yet, he looked very young.”
p. 126 “lives at Magdalen College” (Barfield, Epigraph, Owen Barfield n. pag.)
p. 127 “Biographia Theologia” (Barfield qtd. in Glyer 177)
p. 128 “clerihews.” All of Tolkien’s clerihews are quoted from Carpenter’s, Inklings, pages 177–87.
p. 128 “classical antiquity” (Freeman-Grenville ix–x)
p. 129 “J. R. R. T. for C. S. L.” (Tolkien, Tree 7)
p. 129 “really happened” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:977)
p. 130 “man, sub-creator” et al. The final version of the poem “Mythopoeia” is published in Tolkien’s Tree and Leaf, pages 97–101.
p. 130 “Not easily it flows” et al. Tolkien’s poem about Charles Williams is untitled. It has been printed in its entirety in Carpenter’s Inklings, pages 123–26.
p. 132 “not so agile” et al. (Lewis, Boxen 69)
p. 132 “much in common” (Lewis, Surprised 81)
p. 132 “through the mazes” (Downing, “Editor’s Introduction” xvii–xviii)
p. 133 “Mr. Bultitude the bear” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:682)
p. 133 “booming voice” (Carpenter, Tolkien 194)
p. 133 “I do not travel” (Tolkien, Letters 288–89)
p. 134 “a short story in his head” (Carpenter, Tolkien 196)
p. 134 “a country began to open out” (Tolkien, Tree 75–76)
p. 134 “bedroom window” (Tolkien, Tree 6)
p. 134 “mythological Tree” (Carpenter, Tolkien 196)
p. 135 “Ælfwine” (Tolkien, Lost Road 37–38)
p. 135 “based on her father” (Tolkien, Letters 89)
p. 135 “Martian language and culture” (Glover 77)
p. 135 “intelligentsia on a holiday.” (Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet 7)
p. 135 “neatly dressed” (Kilby, Tolkien 24)
p. 136 “a thin cold rain” (Lewis, Coll. Letters I:757)
p. 136 “fond of water” et al. (Downing, Planets 102–200)
p. 136 “great vigour” (emphasis added, Carpenter, Inklings 198)
p. 136 “but not of me” (Lewis, “Reply to Professor Haldane” 73)
p. 136 “a man called B.” (Lewis, Perelandra 32)
p. 137 “influential theories” (Lewis, That Hideous Strength 261)
p. 137 “the very man” (Lewis, Perelandra 28)
p. 137–40 “no more than a jeu d’esprit” et al. Tolkien’s tale of the Notion Club is published in Sauron Defeated, pages 148–281.
p. 140 The House of the Octopus is published in Charles Williams’s Collected Plays. It is an obscure work, set on a Pacific island during an invasion by the Satanic empire of P’o-l’u.
p. 141 “the great English poet” (Lewis, “Charles Walter” 265)
p. 141 “It’s a larger world” (Lewis, Collected Poems 119)
p. 141 “a formative influence” (Lewis and Sayers 9)
p. 142 “Lewis’s greatest literary achievement” (Barfield, “Clive,” Royal Society 22)
p. 142 “a distinguished niche” (Barfield, “Clive,” Oxford Magazine 155)
p. 142 “well hidden as a crab’s” et al. (Wain, “Great Clerke” 155–60)
p. 143 “a ‘magnanimous’ man” (Havard 363)
p. 143 “He semeth elvyssh” et al. (Coghill, “John Ronald” 30–31)
p. 145 “essential to the final outcome” (Becker 25)
8. Leaf-Mould and Memories
p. 148 “lone-genius idea” (Shenk xvi)
p. 148 “entrepreneurial enterprise” (Wallace qtd. in Bennis and Biederman 5)
p. 149 “sixteenth-century Florence” (Shenk xvi)
p. 150 “bigotry and folly” (Williams, Place of the Lion 187)
p. 150 “win-win relationship” (Komisar qtd. in Simmons and accessed 20 Feb. 2015)
p. 151 “individual initiative” (LeFevre 124)
p. 151 “No one ever influenced Tolkien” (Lewis, Coll. Letters III:1049)
p. 152 “all the achievements” (Goethe qtd. in Bloom 52)
p. 153 “pass on the torch” (Sayers, Further Papers v)
p. 153 “you enter a parlor” (Burke, Philosophy of Literary Form 110–11)
p. 154 “across an expanse” (Shenk 13)
p. 154 “make our best work” (Shenk xxv)
p. 154 “Spin something” (Lewis, Discarded 211)
p. 154 “descending into the deeps” (emphasis added, Tolkien qtd. in Carpenter, Tolkien 126)
p. 155 “a ‘leaf-mould’ of memories” (Tolkien, Letters 409)
p. 155 “intricately knotted” et al. (Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories” 22–28).
p. 156 “being made possible” (emphasis added, LeFevre 65)
p. 157 “the whole cosmos” (R. King 18)
p. 157 “all have eternal life” (Howard 11–12)
p. 157 “our common life” (Book of Common Prayer 34)
p. 158 “The Red Book of Westmarch” et al. (Tolkien, Shadow 1003–4)
p. 158 “There and Back Again” (Tolkien, Hobbit 316)
p. 158 “his friends’ recollections” (Tyler 486)
p. 159 “translated by Bilbo” and “The last pages are for you.” (Tolkien, Shadow 1004)
Epilogue
p. 162 “pleasantest spot” (Lewis, Coll. Letters II:16)
p. 162 “anything to read us?” (Lewis, Letters 13)
p. 163 “perpetual dogfight” (Lewis, Surprised 200)
p. 164 “Our differences laid the foundation” (Havard 350)
p. 165 “I hope you don’t mind” (Lewis, Coll. Letters III:971)
p. 167 “famous and heroic gathering” (Lewis, Letters 13)