Lord of the rings / the lion the witch and the wardrobe

[anthem]

hi!

im not sure if this is the right place for this, but anyway, i'm doing some coursework on comparing 2 books, and i'm thinking about doing the lord of the rings and the lion the witch and the wardrobe... i was thinking along the lines of the christian message in them... but im a bit stuck where to start/look, does anyone have any books i could read on it, or any suggestions? they would be much appreciated

thanks!

[nebula]

Hey -

Here is on book you can look into: Companion to Narnia <<-- LINK

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[anthem]

thank you!!

[ray]

One aspect of the Lord of the Rings and you need to see all of them to fully understand how people struggle with addictions and the process it takes to recover. The power to resist the addiction. The need for the adiction. When a person is addicted how they hurt people and those close to them. How you need accountibility to overcome the addictive nature. The relgious part would be confessing that you have a problem so healing can begin and wanting to be healed like the man at the pool who had been lame for 38 years and kept making excuses and made excuses eve whenJesus showed up but he finally got healed.

The Lion with and the wardrobe is little more easily regonizeable for its relgious theme of the life and death of Christ. It to has small tie or cennection to the Lord of the rings. People don't become addicted to every kind of sin on their first encounter they are slowly drwan into sin. Like a frog who jumps into boiling pot will jump right out. Put that same frog into to a slow cooker being brought to a boil he will be cooked before he knows what happened. Just like the one family who betrays his family for some food that he is addicted to that evil one promise in exchange for killing the Lion or Jesus.

well there is some ideas for your paper

good luck

[anthem]

ray! thats a great idea!!! i shall go with that thank you very much ... now i need to work on the motivation to get it done!

[Guest]

One aspect of the Lord of the Rings

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

[forrestkc]

Neither Tolkien or Lewis wrote those books to be fully metaphorical to the Gospels. Instead, they used what C.S. Lewis referred to as "suppositives". Such as suppose there was this mythical world called Narnia, and suppose that the nature of man there the same as here (he was fallen), and so and and so forth.

[georgesbluegirl]

Lewis is rather directly allegorical on a lot of points, though. Perhaps this is bad form, but I'll just quote another post I made on this topic not too long ago to save time:

Tolkien himself despised allegory, and while he was friends with Lewis he had no taste for "Chronicles." To his mind - one well-schooled in the business of myths and myth-making - they were too flat and obvious. You have to really get into how he writes and some of his more obscure work before you begin to see exactly how he wove his own faith (he was a devout Catholic) into Lord of the Rings. But the short answer is yes - he is trying to say something larger about God and man with the books. Don't take that to mean that everything is a religious symbol, for a big part of the project was the "remythification" of traditional tales and ancient history that modern people had lost touch with (see the brilliant rewriting of a "Beowulf"-like society through Rohan), and he wanted specifically to evoke a pre-Christian world that had lost some of the power of its symbols when they were taken up by the Church. In the end, though, the books carry theological weight, and, subtly, a Christian message. Read "Farmer Giles of Ham" if you really want to see the mechanism unfold.

I did love "Chronicles" as a kid - my mother used to do this wonderful Reepicheep voice when she read them to us - but I have an immense amount of respect for the undertaking and execution of LoTR.

[FighterforJC]

There's a Bible passage referring to Lord of the Rings, I think it's 1 Cor 13:12, something like "For now we see in a mirror Gimli, then face to face." Not sure what itmeans though.

[nebula]