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Jenn's avatar

Not exactly your point here, but reading your summary of Magician (with which of course I'm quite familiar--but I also haven't reread it in a while) reminded me that there's an inversion of the human/"human" response to temptation in Perelandra, too. And now I'm intrigued that Lewis wrote TWO creation stories in which the temptation is resisted, and I'm curious about what was behind that for him.

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Colin B Gallagher's avatar

The Simarillion is probably my favorite work of Tokiens. I think its facinating how he bleands mythology and his christian views of the cosmos. Many roman and christian monks alike as well as hindu texts have called creation a song and people all over speak of a rhymic or musical structure to life and being. I think tokien was drawing upon that and platonic theories of the world. When writing this but its facinating to see him create a whole world and mythology simply out of langauge.

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