Colin Duriez
Born
in Derbyshire, The United Kingdom
July 19, 1947
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Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of a Friendship
15 editions
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2003
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J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend
13 editions
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2012
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Field Guide to Harry Potter
2 editions
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published
2007
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Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life
7 editions
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published
2008
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The Oxford Inklings: Their Lives, Writings, Ideas, and Influence
3 editions
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2015
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C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship
9 editions
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published
2013
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Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings: A Guide to Middle-Earth
9 editions
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2001
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Dorothy L Sayers: A Biography: Death, Dante and Lord Peter Wimsey
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A Field Guide to Narnia
7 editions
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2004
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Amazing & Extraordinary Facts - Tolkien
3 editions
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2012
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“It is… easy to see why Authority frowns on Friendship. Every real Friendship is a sort of secession, even a rebellion… Hence if our masters… ever succeed in producing a world where all are Companions and none are Friends, they will have removed certain dangers, and will also have taken from us what is almost our strongest safeguard against complete servitude. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves”
― The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle
― The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle
“He discovers that God is the very source of our existence. As Lewis will put it: "He is the opaque centre of all existences, the thing that simply and entirely is, the fountain of facthood.”
― Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship
― Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship
“Tolkien had sent him a poem called “Kortirion Among the Trees”. Kortirion represented Warwick in the early stages of Tolkien’s mythology, and was the chief town, complete with tower, in a region of elms (Warwickshire) on the Lonely Island (England).”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
― J.R.R. Tolkien
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