Some thoughts on CS Lewis and Tolkien
The Hobbit and the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe both have their beginings with the Inklings that both CS LEwis and Tolkein were members of. Bascially, they sat around and drink ale and talked about literature etc. They wanted to write something different, something that had not been seen before and The Hobbit and the Narnia books came out of those conversations. I think that Tolkien had been working on Middle Earth since college or at least WW1 and just set his story in that world. Narnia is more children's I think, even more than the Hobbit where even in the Hobbit a few main characters die. Also, Aslan is such a christlike figure and we dont see anything like that in the Hobbit. You could argue that Gandalf could be after his battle with the Balrog, he "dies" and comes back, but that may be a stretch. The Lion the Witch and The wardrobe is coming out this year as a live action movie bigcscreen style. What I have seen looks great.
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