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'''How far did you know Tolkien?'  
'''How far did you know Tolkien?'  
B. - 'I didn't know him very well. I met him a number of times at meetings of the Inklings - I didn't go always - and also with Lewis. Once we had a short walking tour, Lewis, Tolkien, and I, just when war was threatening, but then we never talked as we are talking now. And I never became an enthusiast for The lord of the Rings.' S. - I got stuck on page 337.' B. - 'I don't think I got as far as that. I got The Hobbit, read it to my son.'''<ref name=>''Owen Barfield: Interview with Elmar Schenkel''. Sept 1991 in Old Crow 2, Amherst Mass, 1993. </ref>
B. - 'I didn't know him very well. I met him a number of times at meetings of the Inklings - I didn't go always - and also with Lewis. Once we had a short walking tour, Lewis, Tolkien, and I, just when war was threatening, but then we never talked as we are talking now. And I never became an enthusiast for The lord of the Rings.' S. - I got stuck on page 337.' B. - 'I don't think I got as far as that. I got The Hobbit, read it to my son.'''<ref name=>Owen Barfield: Interview with Elmar Schenkel. Sept 1991 in Old Crow 2, Amherst Mass, 1993. </ref>


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Revision as of 13:52, 27 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.

Bibliography, selected

Foreword

Articles

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]

Barfield said that Tolkien's children were very fond of his book "The Silver Trumpet" and regarded it as a sort of Bible:

"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]

How far did you know Tolkien?' B. - 'I didn't know him very well. I met him a number of times at meetings of the Inklings - I didn't go always - and also with Lewis. Once we had a short walking tour, Lewis, Tolkien, and I, just when war was threatening, but then we never talked as we are talking now. And I never became an enthusiast for The lord of the Rings.' S. - I got stuck on page 337.' B. - 'I don't think I got as far as that. I got The Hobbit, read it to my son.[3]

External links

References

  1. "Saving the Final Appearance: A Visit with Owen Barfield a few months before his death", Allen Pitmann (accessed 8 September 2014)
  2. "Owen Barfield and Clyde Kilby on C.S. Lewis" dated 3 November 1977, YouTube (accessed 25 December 2014)
  3. Owen Barfield: Interview with Elmar Schenkel. Sept 1991 in Old Crow 2, Amherst Mass, 1993.
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