I am reading Tolkien's letters as well as a book offering a fresh look at the Inklings entitled The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Pavlac Glyer. The letters, in particular, convey a wonderful sense of who Tolkien was outside his work as a scholar and professor. Daily life accounts provide poignant insight into this complex figure.
With all of this reading on Tolkien and Lewis, it recently occurred to me that I should create a short video concerning our visits to the gravesites of these two great authors. I decided to include two sections about Cambridge and Oxford. All featured photos are culled from my images from two different trips to the UK.
Despite the fact that Tolkien was not particularly impressed by the bard, I decided to use incidental music from Shakespeare's plays for the first two featured music tracks. This is followed by a poor recording of mine from Tolkien's parish, St. Aloysius Catholic Church. (For an interesting article on Tolkien and the Catholic Church, see here.) The home shared towards the end of the video is where Tolkien and his wife resided for many years in Oxford. We visited Sandfield Rd as my sister-in-law and her husband lived across the street for some time. The person speaking for about a minute while we are walking is my brother-in-law.
I hope you enjoy this brief view from the UK!
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