Great news GC!! That should make the holiday time a bit merrier.
I was completely oblivious to the Christian thing when I read the books. I've wanted to read them again to get a better sense of them.
Sad to say, but P-C is me. I read the series fresh out of undergrad. I was doing summer stock, and the house host had a TON of books, and saw the whole lot of them and just flipped the pages until they were all read. I recall rolling eyes a few times thinking "o gawd, thats as bad as blind faith in church", but school had fried the brain, and summer stock wasn't helping either, so I didn't hear the clue phone ringing.
Huh. Which number in the series was it for you when you were wee? 'Cause it was Book 1 in the editions I was reading as a kid, I'm pretty sure (ah, Narnia! My first ever fandom, back before I knew what fandom was).
Fay is me. Susan, my series (also from the early 80s) started with TMN, too. To be honest, it always bugged me when people started with TLTWATW because of the whole chronological thing. But I'm weird that way.
Great news, GC!
But then, the teachings of Cathol can be quite moving.
Ba-dum-bum.
I am with Susan in preferring the hairy hobbit movies to the books - I quite like technical histories, and I quite like adventures, and I quite dislike a mash-up of the two.
As for faith - for having gone to a Catholic elementary school and a Lutheran college, matters of faith have never touched my inner core. Much like Granny Weatherwax, I'm perfectly happy leaving the gods to do their thing as long as they let me do mine.
And what I'm angry and Lewis for is not that he expressed his own emotional truth here, but that he never saw that an atheist can have an opposite emotional truth just as joyous and rich.
Much of
Mere Christianity
pinged me this way. Much of the "argument" was "this is so obvious there can't possibly be another way to look at it."
The funny thing is, that in spite of Lewis often driving me into a blind rage, I enjoy him as a writer. I was aware of (and often angered by) the Christian thing in Narnia, but still enjoyed the series. In terms of of allegory vs. alternative Universe - no question he is still preaching. The specific scene in the Silver Chair definitely has a flashing "authors message" light blinking behind it. Which does not not stop the book from being magnificent.
I am with Susan in preferring the hairy hobbit movies to the books
I am Juliana and Susan in this. Tolkien bores the crap out of me. Love the concept; respect the innovation; can't stand the books. And yes, this comes from a girl who was OMGWTFBBQ obsessed with fantasy forever. Bad reader! No biscuit.
Also, that way we got live-action Legolas and Aragorn and Borimir and Farimir and Eomer and NOMNOMNOM.
Anyhow, for those having a bad day/week/month/time of it, here is a video: [link] Sound not required, as it is only a song playing about having a bad day.
Strangely, i find myself yearning for a cubicle-based job all of a sudden. hrm.
Oh, GC! That's good news! YAY!
juliana, what Lutheran college? One in MN? I only ask, because I was at Augsburg for a while.
ION, I appear to have contracted the Plague. Does anyone have Plague pills?
