/lit/ - Literature

Lewis was too traditionalist to understand the Christian message of absolute pacifism. E.g. Ecclesiastes went over his head, he understood it as nihilism because he was too attached to the concept of nations, didn't realize they're all towers of Babel.

>>14807906
This is a very easy question to google
>If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, "What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?" This is not allegory at all.
>Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here. I pictured Him becoming a lion there because (a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts; (b) Christ is called "The Lion of Judah" in the Bible; (c) I'd been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work.
So there you have it

>>14807960
>I'd been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work.
Reminder that the Chronicles of Narnia and the Lord of the Rings are the best of modern fantasy works because they record actual events that truly occurred. As the respective authors, Lewis and Tolkien, thought they were being very inventive and creative, they were in fact channeling true events that would have been lost to history if not recorded. Narnia was a true parallel universe to ours that has now been destroyed as of 1949, and Middle-earth became Europe, the Shire became Great Britain and Ireland, and the One Ring was destroyed about 6,000 years ago. The old epics, such as those of Homer and Ovid, are also true history. Modern """fantasy""" works are just boring D&D campaigns based on the authors limited imagination

>>14807906
What a tardy looking lion.
THIS is a lion.

>>14807906
Because the Lion of Judah

>>14807975
A part of me unironically believes that. Some of the most vivid stories, I think, are often a case of “channeling”. The same goes for PKD. He literally claimed to “receive” his stories, and that they described parallel timelines. Gustav Meyrink said said similar things about his stories.

>>14807980
>why yes, I chase wildebeest, how could you tell?