Category: C.S. Lewis
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Saturnine
The Big Picture posted a number of images from Cassini which caught Saturn at its equinox. Saturn is the the last of seven planets and its sphere in Dante is inhabited by the great contemplatives. For Lewis, Saturn is not merely time or age or death but always give over…
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Lucy Pevense: A Shieldmaiden
I’ve been reading Planet Narnia by Michael Ward who in his book reveals the interpretive key of the Chronicles of Narnia. Prince Caspian, by his reckoning reflects and draws its symbolic meaning from the martial qualities and influence of Mars. Caspian is full of martial imagery, but what I find…
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"I will look to see what he will say to me."
C.S. Lewis as he worked through the grief of losing his wife, Joy, to cancer, wrote the following, Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted…
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On Prince Caspian, just this one point…
So, the movies were better than the books? Thanks for playing. I can’t not comment (double negative, don’t tell me, I don’t not know it). Both for Lewis and Tolkein, the more significant and substantive relationships were those of friends. For example, one only discovers the romance between Arwen and…
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The Movie?
Frederica Matthews-Greene actually suggests here that Prince Caspian and the Lord of the Rings movies were actually better than the books. Don’t get me started.
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