I remember the end of Blackadder. The juxtaposition of comedy and pathos closed by the short variation of the usual theme into a chilling ‘end theme’, which was played as they went over the top was a real tear jerker.
That was both great emotive comedy and inspired writing.
Talking about writing, I posted a photo a few days ago of the spine of the Malvern Hills above my house, and I’ve just read that C.S. Lewis who was a local boy and who wrote ‘the Chronicles of Narnia’ used to walk these hills on a regular basis from the point the photo was taken, with his good friend from Oxford University JRR.Tolkien. They used to end up in my local pub ‘The Unicorn’ and sit drinking and smoking while discussing the topography which later influenced them both. Tolkien in particular said that walking the hills inspired the idea of a much larger scale ‘White Mountains’ in ‘Lord of the Rings’.
I’ve reposted the photo to show the start point for their long walk.
