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“I met Tolkien but never had a long talk with him…I wish I had…We did not get to talk for several hours. He’s an important figure in the English literary world of our time. I don’t have any affinity with it – the mythical world. The real enthusiasts of the Tolkien society have more than enjoyed it they have made a kind of cult of it.”  
“I met Tolkien but never had a long talk with him…I wish I had…We did not get to talk for several hours. He’s an important figure in the English literary world of our time. I don’t have any affinity with it – the mythical world. The real enthusiasts of the Tolkien society have more than enjoyed it they have made a kind of cult of it.”  
<ref name=>apittman.com, "[http://apittman.com/blog/west/physical-education/platonic-idealism Saving the final appearancea Visit with Owen Barfield a few months before his death]", 1997 (accessed 8 September 2014)</ref>
<ref name=>apittman.com, "[http://apittman.com/blog/west/physical-education/platonic-idealism Saving the final appearancea Visit with Owen Barfield a few months before his death]", 1997 (accessed 8 September 2014)</ref>
"Tolkien's children for a time regarded it as a kind of bible...many of the characters, were kind of catch-words in the family..."<ref name=>youtube.com, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3n5n5K5fPA Owen Barfield and Clyde Kilby on C.S. Lewis]", 1977 (accessed 25 December 2014)</ref>


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Revision as of 21:06, 25 December 2014

Arthur Owen Barfield (9 November, 189814 December, 1997) was a fellow Inkling with J.R.R. Tolkien. He did not attend a great deal of the Inklings meetings due to living and working in London, a ways away from the Eagle and Child. Tolkien however was very fond of Barfield's works.

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“I met Tolkien but never had a long talk with him…I wish I had…We did not get to talk for several hours. He’s an important figure in the English literary world of our time. I don’t have any affinity with it – the mythical world. The real enthusiasts of the Tolkien society have more than enjoyed it they have made a kind of cult of it.” [1]

"Tolkien's children for a time regarded it as a kind of bible...many of the characters, were kind of catch-words in the family..."[2]

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References

  1. apittman.com, "Saving the final appearancea Visit with Owen Barfield a few months before his death", 1997 (accessed 8 September 2014)
  2. youtube.com, "Owen Barfield and Clyde Kilby on C.S. Lewis", 1977 (accessed 25 December 2014)
The Inklings
J.R.R. Tolkien · Owen Barfield · J.A.W. Bennett · Lord David Cecil · Nevill Coghill · James Dundas-Grant · Hugo Dyson · Adam Fox · Colin Hardie · Robert Havard · C.S. Lewis · Warren Lewis · Gervase Mathew · R.B. McCallum · C.E. Stevens · Christopher Tolkien · John Wain · Charles Williams · Charles Leslie Wrenn