Lions and Hobbits and Oxford!

Oh my!

 Dad and me outside The Eagle and Child

So last weekend we went down into Birmingham and then into Oxford, where we met up with my grandparents and their friend Mrs. Anderson. Mrs. Anderson works at Oxford and was kind enough to show us around the town. Which was amazing.

Oxford is home to MANY famous people. Including the amazing authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S.Lewis. Authors of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings (respectively). In the city of Oxford is a pub called The Eagle and Child. This pub is famous for being the meeting group of the Inklings. The Inklings were a group of authors, including Lewis and Tolkien, which met at the pub every Tuesday morning for drinks, for just over 20 years. The group would meet in the back room of the pub and discuss things while they drank, including their own works. Supposedly when Lewis and Tolkien discussed their most famous works with each other Lewis was said to have thought that The Lord of the Rings was too long and complex. While Tolkien thought that The Chronicles of Narnia was too childish and simple. Ah well. I guess in the end nobody really minded.

A plaque in the back room of The Eagle in Child

We didn't get to go inside the Bodleian Library though, which was kind of sad. Although we did get to see a lot of the manuscripts and sketches done by Tolkien and Lewis and several other authors.

We walked all around the university and Mrs. Anderson also showed us inside Trinity College, which was really beautiful.

I really loved Oxford, and I could (hopefully) see myself going there someday.

Christ Church in Oxford