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Mass_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 08:05 PM
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Poll question: Battle of the Authors: C.S Lewis, or J.R.R Tolkein
two of the greatest fantasty authors of all time. Fire away.
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Mass_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 08:08 PM
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 08:10 PM
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2. Lewis is a pale imitation
Though the Narnia Chronicles are very good, they just don't have the depth and nuance of LOTR.

Lewis and Tolkein really aren't comparable, IMO. Lewis triumphed with allegory, in the Narnia Chronicles, The Great Divorce and the Screwtape Letters. Tolkein didn't write allegory.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 09:14 PM
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5. I wouldn't say Lewis was an imitation.
On a different level, maybe. But I think he wrote for himself and attempted to imitate no one.

I liked Lewis better than Tolkein. :shrug:
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 08:14 PM
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3. Authors C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on 11/22/63.
As did, of course, JFK.
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-04 09:12 PM
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4. That Hideaous Strenght was pretty good
...a part of the perlandria triology, I think?
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