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From: David Duffy <davidD@qimr.edu.au> Subject: Re: Digest urth.v031.n015 Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:18:39 +1000 (EST) On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 Jerry Friedman wrote: > > There's an essay by Wolfe about Tolkien in December's "Interzone" > > and freedoms - the Christian order itself, even if there is no sight of > > God himself in the books. > > "No sight of God" is literally true, but God is busily arranging > coincidences, prophetic dreams, and stuff like that. Sort of like TBotNS, > as a matter of fact. I wonder whether Tolkien was Wolfe's model in that > book. > > > Curiously, the ultra-Catholic Lafferty despised LOTR because he thought > > It's also interesting, at least to me, that as a child I felt a bit > betrayed when I realized that _The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe_ was > Christian propaganda, and I'm glad LotR didn't do that to me. Obviously > I've gotten over this, since I like Wolfe. Tolkien said that he disliked allegory. As a child, I read his introduction to LOTR, and used it to justify a literal reading of the Pilgrim's Progress ;). Wolfe always has a-not-always-convincing alternative explanation for the events in his stories, while Lafferty... Have we been here before? Arwen = Apheta Aragorn = Severian elves = Heirodules Gandalf = Father Inire Gollum = Baldanders (has to get that ring you know, or maybe Saruman) Ring = Claw Sauron = Abaia I am unsure who Cate Blanchett gets to play | David Duffy. ,-_|\ | email: davidD@qimr.edu.au ph: INT+61+7+3362-0217 fax: -0101 / * | Epidemiology Unit, The Queensland Institute of Medical Research \_,-._/ | 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia v