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I “love” the dumbasses who act like Lewis was a theologian. Even Tolkien dunked on his ass for writing shitty/lazy allegory.
he literally yelled at Lewis for including fauns, Santa Claus, and Jesus in the same story and then kept talking shit about it in his letters lmao
I’m firmly convinced that the inklings would have been better off without Lewis. Easily the worst writer of the bunch. Which says a lot given Chesterton was a member. The OG Reddit fedora wearer.
I really wonder what that relationship was like. Even though LotR is a bit problematic w/r/t racism… there is no denying that Tolkien was a world-historic writing talent. Humans will be reading LotR 2,000 years from now.
And then you have Lewis, who at best can write some pretty prose but is dogshit at everything else. I mean, Tolkien went out of his way to say how much he hated allegory, and then Lewis writes just about the most ham-fisted allegory you can imagine.
I’ve actually been told by British Christians that they don’t think too much of Lewis, and that his following is mostly Americans, idk.
The tragedy of pre-internet days. The guy in your social circle who shares your fixations and you can finally have a conversation about the stuff you're passionate about, but also he's annoying.
I liked Narnia sure the allegory was obvious but it also was a good story with interesting characters and fun fantasy concepts like giants with regular bodies and massive legs, aristocrats who have a word that can destroy the world using it in a stupid argument, at one point there is a bell with a sign do not ring but if you don't ring won't you wonder what it did
Yeah they're fun books for sure. You don't have to reach the incredible heights of LotR to write something worth reading