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Few authors of fantasy literature are as beloved as C.S. Lewis, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on November 29, 1898. Time magazine has listed the first of his Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, as one of the top 100 English language novels written in the twentieth century. Time had earlier confirmed Lewis’s stature as a writer of international renown when it featured him on its cover in September 1947.But then, Time was merely affirming what millions of readers then

ventures that has been successful at applying a realness to the fictional imaginative eloquently enough to appeal and resonate so deeply within popular culture, similar only to that of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and George Lucas’ Star Wars. In fact, Tolkien set a precedence for modern fiction through his creation of a vast world of imaginary, but detailed locations created solely as a ‘home’ for his artificial

I realized I was quite off. The dwarves were taller, Bilbo seemed to look more normal, and the elves had more distinct features. The quote, “It was a dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt, very bright eyes under his dark-green hood” (Tolkien 7) shows how they had described them in the book. In the film they portrayed as taller and some of the details like the

Clive Staples Lewis Have you ever heard of Clive Staples Lewis? If you haven’t he has had good and bad things happen in his career of writing. C.S. Lewis has been around for a while and I bet if you don’t know him you will know the book or books he has made. Have you ever heard of the Book Narnia? Well, he didn’t make it, Just kidding he did make that book. And in his class, he was the brainiac. I want you to read some of Lewis’s books because he made over two million copies of his books. Clive

Jackson’s movie renditions have been accused of including many complicated or otherwise controversial social and cultural themes such as orientalism, racism, sexism and homosexuality. Many scholars over the decades have debated whether or not if it was Tolkien that harbored these feelings, or if it was just his characters. More recently many people have brought up that Jackson blatantly ignored significant aspects of the original story. Astrid Winegar wrote in her essay “Aspects of Orientalism in J. R

never coming back and, as if this were not enough, with a group of people that aren’t reliable or trustworthy? This is why fellowship, the companionship and friendship of people who share the same interests, is very important. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is a fantasy novel and children’s book based on the quest of a group of 13 dwarves, a hobbit, and a wizard with the goal of recovering a horde of treasure stolen and guarded by a dragon. During the quest the author develops several themes which quickly

hobbits set out from their only home, the Shire, and began a journey that would take them across Middle Earth on a quest to destroy the Ring of Sauron and save Middle Earth. This is the setting to the plot in the book, The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien. In this book the main character, Frodo, is gifted the Ring by Bilbo, his adopted father, on his birthday before he leaves. It is discovered that this ring is the Ring of Sauron and it sends Frodo on the adventure of his life through great peril to

what is small and how its measure contradicts its significance. Tolkien crams undetected, potent potential into unlikely vessels—vessels that seemingly lack the capacity. The reader sees this in Tolkien’s protagonist and antagonist, the hobbit and ring respectively. The measure of each conflicts with its significance. With a closer look, the reader also sees this in Tolkien’s word choice. In his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” Tolkien claims “How powerful, how stimulating to the very faculty that produced

Spring Book Review: Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis C. S Lewis recalls his spiritual journey as an atheist to a full on believer in Christ through his book Surprised by Joy. Lewis grew up in Belfest Ireland where he first found his love for writing and reading. He would listen to stories from his older brother of the boarding schools in England where he would soon be attending and where he finds his first taste of Atheism and rationalism. Lewis soon grows up and is thrown into the horrors of

Tolkien a literary icon set the standards of what a fantasy is in his essay On Fairy Stories assessing what he believes a story must contain to make it a true “fairy story”. Tolkien never references The Hobbit which he published two years prior. The Hobbit is Tolkien’s first novel based in a fictitious land known as Middle Earth and is about a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins and his unexpected journey with a band of dwarfs and a wizard. Tolkien must have believed his novel The Hobbit to be a fairy