Maybe I just didn't catch it at the time because I was like 10 years old when I read them, but it seemed like he toned it down a lot in the later books in the series. I started with like the fourth or fifth one because that was what my elementary school library had, and it was pretty much just that or Lloyd Alexander for fantasy genre stuff. When I got to middle school and they had the whole series, though, holy fucking shitballs. All the subtlety of a nut shot with a sledgehammer.
What's funny is that his buddy Tolkien hated allegory with burning hatred of a thousand suns. I can't imagine what he thought about it, probably a reason AFAIK we don't have any notes or letters from Tolkien that express his feelings about it.
Tough luck, Tolkien. You exist in a cultural context and your artistic sensibilities are shaped by your life experiences just like everyone else, bucko
I mean in the first one he creates the world and the the last one he destroys it to create heaven, that combined with the ressurction in book 2 are all the direct god bits. I font think he was a character in any of the rest of them
Yes. As sammer510 said it may not technically be allegory but "Aslan is Jesus" hits you with all the subtlety of a Ayn Rand character.
Maybe I just didn't catch it at the time because I was like 10 years old when I read them, but it seemed like he toned it down a lot in the later books in the series. I started with like the fourth or fifth one because that was what my elementary school library had, and it was pretty much just that or Lloyd Alexander for fantasy genre stuff. When I got to middle school and they had the whole series, though, holy fucking shitballs. All the subtlety of a nut shot with a sledgehammer.
I mean the Last Battle is pretty Revelations-y, but yeah Dawn Treader and some of the other middle ones are more chill.
What's funny is that his buddy Tolkien hated allegory with burning hatred of a thousand suns. I can't imagine what he thought about it, probably a reason AFAIK we don't have any notes or letters from Tolkien that express his feelings about it.
We have plenty of evidence that Tolkien despised the books, they almost stopped being friends he was so pissed about father Christmas in Narnia.
Tough luck, Tolkien. You exist in a cultural context and your artistic sensibilities are shaped by your life experiences just like everyone else, bucko
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I mean in the first one he creates the world and the the last one he destroys it to create heaven, that combined with the ressurction in book 2 are all the direct god bits. I font think he was a character in any of the rest of them
He shows up usually at the beginning and end, sometimes in dreams or visions in the middle.
If we wanna talk about a lack of subtly in a christ allegory, I am compelled to bring up The Matrix and how I didn’t recognize it the first time