Welcome to Inklings Bookshop
Promoting Good Reading from a Christian World View
Inklings Bookshop sells new and used books, seeking to promote the
"permanent things" of classical learning and Christian faith.
Our
online ordering system is now
available! You may also contact us by phone, fax, or email with your book
needs.
In our bookshop we wish to sell the good, the true and the beautiful. We are
particularly interested in the Inklings literary group (C. S. Lewis, 
J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles
Williams) and 
associated authors such as George MacDonald, G. K.
Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers.
We are
distributors for Sattler Latin. You
can also find here a good selection of Southern history and literature,
especially concerning the War Between the States and local and Virginia
history. You can also find here a good
selection of Southern history and literature, especially concerning the War
Between the States and local and Virginia history.
Contact Us
Inklings Bookshop
1206 Main St
Lynchburg VA 24504
Phone: 434-845-2665
Fax: 434-845-5323
Email: Inklings@ntelos.net
Lewis and McDonald portraits courtesy of Taylor
University Edwin W. Brown Collection.
Direct all inquiries to:
Dr. David L. Neuhouser, Nussbaum 205A Email: dvneuhous@tayloru.edu
John
Ronald Ruel Tolkien was a linguist, not one who studies modern languages, but
one who studied the ancient manuscripts.
He studied philology, the origins and evolution of language.
He used what he knew of languages that had
been to create several languages that never were.
For fun, Tolkien and some of his friends, including C. S. Lewis,
met together to read and translate Icelandic myths from the original. There is a story of one participant being
banned from further participation in the Kolbeiters for making notes ahead of
time instead of translating as they read.
Tolkien
created, for himself, and in his spare time, another world, complete with
distinct races and languages (and alphabets), a varied geography, and all the
usual trappings of its cultures, songs,
legends, histories, and such. He worked
on it for many years while working as an editor for the Oxford English
Dictionary, translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and then as
Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University.
Tolkien shared his lively imagination with his
children telling them stories and illustrating them himself. We have examples of this in his story Mr.
Bliss and in The Father Christmas Letters, which he wrote and
illustrated for his children for many years.
In 1932 he began to tell his children a story that occurred in his
invented world - Middle Earth. When an
unfinished manuscript of the tale found its way to a publisher and an advance
was offered, Tolkien finished the story, drew illustrations, maps and the dust
jacket. The Hobbit, or There and
Back Again was born.
Tolkien
was part of a group of literary friends, the Inklings, who met together a
couple of times each week to read and discuss works in progress and other
literature. Tollers, as some of his
friends called him, read The Hobbit as it progressed to completion. When the publishers of The Hobbit asked
for more, he spent several years writing what came to be The Lord of the
Rings, but was known to the Inklings as "Tollers's new Hobbit."