On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:15:20PM -0500, James and Mary Burbidge <jamesandmary.burbidge at sympatico.ca> wrote: > Matthew Hunter wrote: > > 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. > Ummm ... I would be willing to make an extended argument that the > _Ainulindale_ is at least as Christian as anything in the Narnia books. > There's some later writing published in _Morgoth's Ring_ which goes even > further (a dialogue between Finrod and a human wise-woman). Neither of which, as I understand it, are part of LOTR. I have avoided reading anything other than The Hobbit and LOTR for a reason. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp