Tolkien & Lewis - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 05-03-2002, 11:50 AM

I imagine Tolkien wincing at such a term as born-again-Christian. Lewis, too, for that matter. It is true, however, that in the early 30s "Tollers" and "Jack" were walking one late night in the Oxford environs and J was saying that the Christian gospels are all myth, after all; T agreed then added that the Christian gospels are the only true myth. That convinced Lewis of theism at least, and after a little more time, of Christianity.

I don't think that Tolkien considered the Narnia Chronicles "wrong", so much as written without adequate respect for mythic sources. The whole thing does not have the inner consistency of reality; all kinds of borrowings were lumped together will-he-nil-he which Tolkien believed did a disservice to the myths themselves.

05-03-2002, 11:50 AM	#1
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I imagine Tolkien wincing at such a term as born-again-Christian. Lewis, too, for that matter. It is true, however, that in the early 30s "Tollers" and "Jack" were walking one late night in the Oxford environs and J was saying that the Christian gospels are all myth, after all; T agreed then added that the Christian gospels are the only true myth. That convinced Lewis of theism at least, and after a little more time, of Christianity. I don't think that Tolkien considered the Narnia Chronicles "wrong", so much as written without adequate respect for mythic sources. The whole thing does not have the inner consistency of reality; all kinds of borrowings were lumped together will-he-nil-he which Tolkien believed did a disservice to the myths themselves.