#narnia

no way i just saw people in tiktok comments crying screaming throwing up at the idea of aslan being a jesus figure. worsties the lion literally dies to save edmund (the sinner) and then rises from the dead. he tells the pevensies he can be found under a different name in our world. what else could this have meant

I don't disagree that C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien had very different approaches to fantasy worldbuilding, but not in the way folks often claim. "Lewis put Santa Claus in Narnia because he didn't give a shit" well, no, C S Lewis had a complicated but entirely self-consistent answer for why Santa Claus is in Narnia that somehow manages to involve multiversal time travel and just didn't bother to bring it up until five books later, and it probably wasn't even an ass-pull because his claim to fame before Narnia was as an author of theological science fiction. Lewis didn't annoy the piss out of Tolkien for lack of trying, is what I mean to say.

many things about the chronicles of Narnia made me irrevocably insane at the small age of six years old but one of the big ones was the bit in prince Caspian where caspian blows susan's horn to try and summon help and it summons the pevensie kids like. that's crazy ok. that's insane. imagine at 12 years old you're given a horn thats purpose is basically summoning divine intervention & then years later someone blows it and summons YOU . I'm crazy !