An Inklings Weekend 2023

An Inklings Weekend
Friday evening March 31, 2023 – Sunday noon April 2, 2023
Montreat College, Montreat, NC

Join us in the Misty Mountains (locally known by the elves as the Smoky Mountains) at Rivendell (known locally as Montreat College) near Black Mountain, NC as we consider

"The Legacy of J. R. R. Tolkien Fifty Years after His Death"

When J. R. R. Tolkien died on September 2, 1973, his magisterial tales of hobbits, elves, and Middle-earth had become legendary in themselves on college campuses around the world. Somehow Tolkien, who always belonged to an earlier century than the twentieth, managed to touch a smoldering ember of the imaginations of young people who would never have listened to him lecture about all that he saw wrong with the modern world. His stories managed to spark a longing for something missing, they knew not what. Dismissed by the avant garde literary establishment of his day as mere escapist writing, but nominated by Lewis for the Nobel Prize in literature, The Lord of the Rings is now indisputably recognized as a great literary classic. When we gather in Montreat, we will discuss why.

Featuring music, worship, food, and good conversation, with:

• Nigel Goodwin began a ministry to people in all the arts all around the world just as The Lord of the Rings was catching on. He lived with Francis Schaeffer at L'Abri and was challenged by him to take up this ministry. Fifty years later, we can honestly say that the active presence of so many Christians in the arts today can be traced back in one way or another to Nigel Goodwin.
  
• Dennis Beets is a co-founder of the C. S. Lewis Society of Memphis. A frequent presenter at the Christianity in the Academy Conference, Dennis had spoken to the Inklings Fellowship on many occasions over the years in Montreat and Oxford.
  
• Don King has just completed writing the first biography of Major Warren H. Lewis: Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis. King is one of the most prolific scholars of C. S. Lewis and those closest to him. He has written a number of books about Lewis, Joy Davidman, and Ruth Pitter, including C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse, Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter, Plain to the Inward Eye: Essays on C. S. Lewis, The Letters of Ruth Pitter: Silent Music, The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition, A Naked Tree: Joy Davidman's Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems, Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman, and Sudden Heaven: The Collected Poems of Ruth Pitter, A Critical Edition. King edited the Christian Scholar's Review for many years and teaches literature at Montreat College.
  
• Hal Poe has just finished a three-volume biography of C. S. Lewis which is published by Crossway. He is the author of twenty books that deal with how the gospel intersects culture; including C. S. Lewis Remembered and The Inklings of Oxford. He won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 2009 and was named a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation for his books on science and the Christian faith. Poe serves as Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University.