Jared
Lobdell
A friend and correspondent
of Owen's for more than thirty years and the author of a recent (as yet
unpublished essay) "'What Exactly Am I To Be Deemed To Have Taught Him?'
C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, and Delighted Friendship," given at MythCon
29. He teaches at Central Pennsylvania Business School in Summerdale, PA.
He is also the editor of A Tolkien Compass (1980) and
author of England and Always (1981) and of articles on Lewis, Tolkien,
and Charles Williams in various anthologies and in Extrapolation. His
1972 article "Not Least of the Inklings" is available here.