[ SECRET POST #6483 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6483 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

He fits in that book, just not in the world once Lewis decided to go multi-book in worldbuilding. Tolkien always had his eye on the bigger goal, but Lewis tended to just play things by ear.

[(Anonymous)]

Forget Father Christmas, what about Bacchus, Lord of Wine and Fucking? Even with the line about Susan and Lucy feeling like that if Alsan wasn't with them, they'd be in danger.

Lewis opened the gates with Father Christmas so other gods are now fair game, especially after he killed off his devil-figure right away. It honestly makes looking at the overarching narrative from creation-story to apocalypse, much more interesting and sets Aslan up as less Jesus-Allegory-Lion and more some idiot who fucked up the world from the start and gave up so now it's a free-for-all among random gods from all pantheons. River gods. Sea gods. Tree gods. The Calormene pantheon. Bacchus. There is too little fic exploring this, incest fic is the low-hanging bar of Narnia fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't agree.

[(Anonymous)]

"battles are ugly when women fight" has to be the cringiest Lewis line ever.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, I'd almost forgotten that line. I guess he's a product of his times, but he had that paternalistic sexism thing going on in his books.

[(Anonymous)]

...the matter of Susan?

[(Anonymous)]

Because any incarnation of Father Christmas would have stuck out, or because this particular one is an arms dealer to child soldiers?

[(Anonymous)]

Children of the time and place this book was published were familiar with war, and would probably have liked the idea of being able to make a difference. Not answering your question, I know.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're looking for solid worldbuilding I guess it's easy to poke holes in, but to me it always felt perfectly acceptable that a book with so much Christian allegory would have a Christian icon like that. I mean, our world and Narnia share the same creator god. It's just like Aslan being able to die for Edmund's sins then rise again.

It's not a one-to-one parallel with the bible - other mythology figures in there as well - but our world and Narnia share a wavelength through the shared myth.

(I am an aetheist btw, but you will pry htese books through my cold, dead, godless fingers)

[philstar22]

I agree. I really do love these books, except for the last one. That one gets a little too preachy at a level that interferes with the story. But most of them are really fun. Magicians Nephew is especially great, and I'm bitter we've never gotten an adaption of that one.