The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings (111 page)

Tolkien, Joan (Michael’s wife)

Tolkien, John Francis Reuel (J.R.R.’s son); birth of; childhood of

Tolkien, Mabel (J.R.R.’s mother)

Tolkien, Michael George Reuel (J.R.R.’s grandson)

Tolkien, Michael Hilary Reuel (J.R.R.’s son); birth of; Catholicism of; childhood of; marriage and family of; during World War II

Tolkien, Priscilla (J.R.R.’s daughter); birth of; childhood of; education of; during World War II

Tolkien, Simon (J.R.R.’s grandson)

Tolkien Society of America

Tories

Towards

Toynbee, Arnold

Toynbee, Philip

Tractarian movement

“Transposition” (Lewis)

“Traveller, The” (de la Mare)

“Treatise on Method” (Coleridge)

“Tree of Amalion, The” (Tolkien)

Tree and Leaf
(Tolkien)

Treglown, Jeremy

Trench, Richard Chenivix

Trickett, Rachel

Trollope, Anthony

Trophy at Arms, A
(Pitter)

“Trouble with ‘X’…, The” (Lewis)

Trumpets of Fa
ë
rie, The
(Tolkien)

Truth
magazine

Twain, Mark

Twentieth Century, The

“Two Kinds of Memory” (Lewis)

Two Towers, The
(Tolkien)

Tylor, Edward Burnett

Ultimate Belief, The
(Clutton-Brock)

Unancestral Voice
(Barfield)

Undeceptions (God in the Dock)
(Lewis)

Underhill, Evelyn

Undertenishness
(Tolkien)

“Unicorn, The” (Barfield)

Unitarians

University College, Oxford; founding of Inklings at; Martlets literary society at

University College London

Unwin, Camilla

Unwin, Rayner;
Hobbit
manuscript read as ten-year-old by; Tolkien’s correspondence with

Unwin, Stanley

“Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford” (Tolkien)

Vanauken, Sheldon

Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(James)

Vatican II

Verne, Jules

Versailles, Treaty of

Vice Versa
(Anstey)

Victorian era; British Empire during; crisis of faith during; fairy lore of; missionaries of; neomedieval sensibility in;
Oxford English Dictionary
begun during; philosophers of

Vie de Jesus
(Mauriac)

Viking Club

Vikings

“Village Dance, The” (Barfield)

Vinaver, Eug
è
ne

Vincent of L
é
rins, St.

Virgil

Virgin Mary

Vision, A
(Yeats)

Vision of Judgment, The
(Byron)

Vita Nuova, La
(Dante)

“Voices of the Laity” (Lewis)

V
ö
lsunga saga

Voltaire

V
ö
lusp
á

Vorticists

Voyage to Arcturus, A
(Lindsay)

Voyage of the Dawn Treader
(Lewis)

“Voyage of
É
arendel the Evening Star, The” (Tolkien)

Wagner, Richard

Wain, John; fantasy disliked by; on Lewis’s writing; on Socratic Club; undergraduate studies at Oxford of; on Williams

Waite, Arthur Edward

Waldman, Milton

Waley, Arthur

Wallace, Lewis

Walsh, Chad

Walsh, Eva

Ward, Maisie

Ward, Michael

Wardale, Edith Elizabeth

War in Heaven
(Williams)

War of the Worlds, The
(Wells)

Water, Wind, and Sand
(Tolkien)

Watson, George

Watson, Josephine Grant

Watts, Alan

Waugh, Evelyn

Waverly Novels (Scott)

Way and Its Power, The
(Waley)

“Way’s the Way, The” (Lewis, Baker, and Pasley)

Webb, C.C.J.

Weeping Bay
(Davidman)

“Weight of Glory, The” (Lewis)

Welch, James W.

Weldon, T. D. “Harry”

Wells, H. G.

Well at the World’s End, The
(Morris)

Welsh

Welsh mythology

Wesley, Charles and John

West, Dame Rebecca

Westcott, William Wynn

Westminster Abbey Poets’ Corner

“What Christians Believe” (Lewis)

What Coleridge Thought
(Barfield)

What Is the Kingdom of Heaven?
(Clutton-Brock)

Wheaton College

“When I’m Dead Don’t Bury Me at All, Just Pickle My Bones in Alcohol” (Gordon)

Whilk, Nat (Lewis pseudonym)

Whitby Abbey

White, T. H.

Whitefield, George

Whitehead, Alfred North

Why Are We in Vietnam?
(Mailer)

Wiblin, Vida Mary “Smudge”

Wickedness
(Tolkien)

Wilberforce, Samuel

Wilde, Oscar

Willey, Basil

William Collins, Sons

William of Sens

Williams, Charles Walter Stansby; academic interest in; birth of; childhood and adolescence of; Christianity of; death of; in Fellowship of the Rosy Cross; fiction by; identification with Dante of; Joy Davidman’s lecture on; lectures by; Lewis’s friendship with; marriage of; memorial book of essays in honor of; at Oxford University Press; physical appearance of; plays by; poetry of; Tolkien’s friendship with; women and; during World War II

Williams, Edith (Charles’s sister)

Williams, Florence (n
é
e Conway; Charles’s wife)

Williams, Mary (Charles’s mother)

Williams, Michael (Charles’s son)

Williams, Phyllis

Williams, Richard Walter Stansby (Charles’s father)

Williamson, Henry

Wilson, A. N.

Wilson, Edmund

Wilson, Frank Percy

Wilson, P. W.

Wind in the Willows, The
(Grahame)

Wiseman, Christopher

Wiseman, Nicholas

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wolff, Mary Madeleva

“Won’t Mankind Outgrow Christianity in the Face of the Advance of Science and of Modern Ideologies” (Havard)

“Wood That Time Forgot, The” (Green)

Woolf, Leonard

Woolf, Virginia

Wordsworth, William

Working Men’s College

World-Economy
(Steiner)

Worlds Apart
(Barfield)

World’s Last Night, The
(Lewis)

World War I; aftermath of; Armistice; Barfield in; Coghill in; English poets of; Lewis in; outbreak of; Tolkien in

World War II; anxiety over events leading to; Barfield during; British intelligence during; Churchill’s speeches during; end in Europe of; Lewis’s BBC broadcasts during; life at the Kilns during; Operation Pied Piper evacuation of London in; outbreak of; Oxford University during; Tolkien’s sons in; Williams during;
see also
London Blitz

Worm Ouroboros, The
(Eddison)

Wren, C. L.

Wrenn, Agnes

Wrenn, Charles Leslie

Wright, Elizabeth

Wright, Joseph

Wuthering Heights
(Bront
ë
)

Wyclif, John

Wyke-Smith, Edward A.

Wynyard School

Xhosa

Yalta Conference

Year’s Work in English Studies 1920–1921, The

Yeats, William Butler

Yorke, Henry,
see
Green, Henry

Yorkshire Poetry

Yu, Antony C.

Zarathustra

Zeal of Thy House, The
(Sayers)

Zettersten, Arne

Zulu

J.R.R. Tolkien
(© Douglas R. Gilbert)

Owen Barfield
(Used by permission of the Owen Barfield Literary Estate, Owen A. Barfield, trustee)

C. S. Lewis
(Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)

Charles Williams
(Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)

J.R.R. Tolkien at age fifteen with the King Edward’s School cadets
(Courtesy of the Governors of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham, by the kindness of John Garth and Alison Wheatley, who have confirmed the identity of Tolkien in this 1907 photograph)