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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> | |||
==External links== | ==External links== |
Revision as of 21:06, 25 December 2014
Arthur Owen Barfield (9 November, 1898 – 14 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.
Bibliography, selected
Foreword
Articles
- 1947: Essays Presented to Charles Williams, pp. 106-127
- "Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction"
Excerpt
“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]
External links
- Owen Barfield Literary Estate
- The Owen Barfield Society
- Owen Barfield at Wikipedia
- Owen Barfield - Man and Meaning documentary
- Owen Barfield and Clyde Kilby on C.S. Lewis
References
- ↑ apittman.com, "Saving the final appearancea Visit with Owen Barfield a few months before his death", 1997 (accessed 8 September 2014)
- ↑ youtube.com, "Owen Barfield and Clyde Kilby on C.S. Lewis", 1977 (accessed 25 December 2014)