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Tag Archives: Sub-creation

The Legacy of Tolkien and the TCBS: A Light to the World: The Call Heard and Answered

Gazzolo Creative Posted on December 21, 2020 by Anne Marie GazzoloOctober 21, 2020

At the ‘Council of London’ held by the Tea Club and Barrovian Society in December 1914, J. R. R. Tolkien and his three dearest friends spoke of the call they felt to bring beauty and meaning back into a world grown … { Read More }

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Christian, Inspiration, Middle-earth, Sub-creation, Tolkien

Creation and Sub-Creation in Narnia and The Timeless Halls

Gazzolo Creative Posted on November 1, 2020 by Anne Marie GazzoloOctober 21, 2020

 C.  S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien varied greatly in their conceptions of the secondary worlds they fashioned. Lewis focused on the creative power of God to call into existence an entire world out of nothing. Tolkien chose to … { Read More }

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C. S. Lewis, Christian, Fantasy, Middle-earth, Narnia, Sub-creation, Tolkien

The Beginning of Stories

Gazzolo Creative Posted on November 18, 2019 by Anne Marie GazzoloOctober 21, 2020

As long as we could speak and realize we had a mind and intelligence and a need to explain to ourselves and to others the world around us, we have told stories. For things we have not understood like the … { Read More }

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The Role of the Narrator in Tolkien and Lewis

Gazzolo Creative Posted on July 1, 2019 by Anne Marie GazzoloOctober 21, 2020

The voice of the narrator is similar in both The Hobbit and the Narnia books and used wonderfully well to draw readers into the tale. They talk directly and indirectly to their audience, offer advice, use words that speak of … { Read More }

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A Short Reflection on Myths and Reality

Gazzolo Creative Posted on May 6, 2019 by Anne Marie GazzoloOctober 21, 2020

There is such power in story-telling! Visionaries, seers, bards, poets, playwrights, and novelists have harnessed this vast resource for as long as man has existed. What a crowd we are part of. What shoulders we stand on. I am proud … { Read More }

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The Consolation of Fairy-Stories

Gazzolo Creative Posted on February 4, 2019 by Anne Marie GazzoloOctober 21, 2020

In his wonderful essay “On Fairy-Stories”, J. R. R. Tolkien states three things fantastical stories bring us: recovery, escape, and consolation. In our shattered world, we need them all. We need to see anew everyday things that we do not … { Read More }

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The Value of Myths

Gazzolo Creative Posted on December 17, 2018 by Anne Marie GazzoloOctober 20, 2020

From early days, man defined himself and his world through stories. The mind and heart travel further along their hidden roads and secret passageways than a body does down the modern superhighway. The places reached are brighter and darker than … { Read More }

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