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'''Owen Barfield''' was a fellow [[Inklings|Inkling]] with [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. He didn't 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.
'''Arthur Owen Barfield''' ([[9 November]], [[1898]] – [[14 December]], [[1997]]) was a fellow [[Inklings|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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==Bibliography, selected==
 
===Foreword===
*'''[[1980]]''': [[SEVEN 1|''SEVEN'' 1]]
*'''[[1990]]''': ''[[The Magical World of the Inklings]]''
 
===Articles===
*[[1947]]: ''[[Essays Presented to Charles Williams]]'', pp. 106-127
**"Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction"
 
==Excerpt==
 
{{blockquote|"''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>{{webcite|website=[http://www.apittman.com Allen Pitmann]|articleurl=http://apittman.com/blog/west/physical-education/platonic-idealism|articlename=Saving the Final Appearance: A Visit with Owen Barfield a few months before his death|accessed=8 September 2014}}</ref>
 
Barfield said that Tolkien's children were very fond of his book "The Silver Trumpet" and regarded it as a sort of Bible:
 
{{blockquote|"''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=>{{webcite|website=YT|articleurl=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3n5n5K5fPA|articlename=Owen Barfield and Clyde Kilby on C.S. Lewis|dated=3 November 1977|accessed=25 December 2014}}</ref>
 
{{blockquote|
S. - 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.
S. - Tolkien quoted you in one of his lectures, I think.
B. - He told Lewis, not long after he had read Poetic Diction, that to a certain extent it changed him - that he found there were things he could no longer say at his lectures. That was brought up by Verlyn Flieger in her book Splintered Light.}}<ref name=>'Owen Barfield: Interview with Elmar Schenkel'. Sept 1991 in Old Crow 2, Amherst Mass, 1993. Reprinted, in English, as “Interview mit Owen Barfield.” ''Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literature und Ästhetik 11'' (1993),p.p 23-38 </ref>
 
==External links==
*[http://www.owenbarfield.org/ Owen Barfield Literary Estate]
*[http://barfieldsociety.org/ The Owen Barfield Society]
* {{WP|Owen Barfield}}
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oedVDN1xOWM Owen Barfield - Man and Meaning documentary]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3n5n5K5fPA Owen Barfield and Clyde Kilby on C.S. Lewis]
 
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Revision as of 14:01, 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]

S. - 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. S. - Tolkien quoted you in one of his lectures, I think.

B. - He told Lewis, not long after he had read Poetic Diction, that to a certain extent it changed him - that he found there were things he could no longer say at his lectures. That was brought up by Verlyn Flieger in her book Splintered Light.

[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. Reprinted, in English, as “Interview mit Owen Barfield.” Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literature und Ästhetik 11 (1993),p.p 23-38
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