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J.R.R. Tolkien on C.S. Lewis' Christian Allegory

Richard Evans Lee

I treasure my copy of English Literature in the Sixteenth Century. I've even read a number of C.S. Lewis' apologetics. But never the Narnia series. On and off I've been thinking about going back and trying them.

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Tolkien disliked the first Narnia book, published in 1950, telling the author it had too many clashing elements and was pushing the Christianity "message" too far. He also apparently "hated" Lewis's allegorical fight between good and evil, with Jesus represented by Aslan the Lion.

When Tolkien got precious with Lewis