On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:26:08PM -0600, David Rodemaker <dar at horusinc.com> wrote: > > Well, yeah. Except that for Lewis, the Christian mythos is absolutely > > true about the universe. The fair question, as I see it, is: Did Lewis > > expect the series to hit people this way, or could he reasonably have > > expected it to? And if so, how did he feel about it? -- Not necessarily > > questions we can answer. > The same argument could be made about LOTR, it's certainly as Christian as > Narnia is... Um, no. Narnia is very much a direct analogy, and the author admits it. Tolkien in LOTR denies any allegory along those lines, and it's a much weaker connection. I don't deny there are some parallels, but Narnia is several large steps closer to Christianity than Middle-Earth. > The argument can be made that both T. and L. were Christian mystics (not in > the occult sense but in the religious one) and were quite aware of what they > were doing. Tolkien was certainly such, but their works are not necessarily the same in that respect. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt