Chronicles of Narnia

[Tessa]

Is anyone else going to see the Chronicles of Narnia after advent? We hope to go-I haven't seen many commercials for it, with the TV almost completely off but I yhave been checking up on it on the net and am very excited!

Tessa

[Kollyvas]

Even though I will not see the movie in theatres, I will purchase it on DVD. CS Lewis was a friend of JRR Tolkien who had an influence upon him. JRR Tolkien was a devout Anglo-Catholic and his works on Middle Earth hint at his deep religious convictions. The Lord Of The Rings is an epic not to be missed. Likewise, having read through the Chronicles of Narnia as a boy and CS Lewis' commentaries on Christian faith as a young adult, I can remark that the tension between good and evil and the struggle against darkness are very much presented in a wonderful and edifying moral format. This literature is good family entertainment which reinforces an Orthodox upbringing.
R

[Tessa]

Thanks guys!

I can't imagine anyone being good compared to the BBC version's witch. She was so over the top but so good in that role, nobody can top that. The special effects seem much better though than the original.

I was listening to a commentary on NPR about the movie and they mentioned how it has a big Christian market base. Then they recounted a New York Jewish woman who carried a correspondence with C.S. Lewis back in the day and eventually moved her two children to England to marry him. They interviewed the one son who is now a sort of non-denominational CHRISTIAN layman/preacher type, but the other brother is a Talmudic Scholar. Interesting if it's true.

In Christ
Tessa

[Ebor]

CS Lewis was a friend of JRR Tolkien who had an influence upon him. JRR Tolkien was a devout Anglo-Catholic and his works on Middle Earth hint at his deep religious convictions.

I beg pardon, but just a correction. Professor Tolkien was not an "Anglo-Catholic" but a devout Roman Catholic. Lewis himself became a believing Christian as an Anglican and had some devotions and ideas that could be considered "Anglo-Catholic" such as prayer for the dead and going to confession. But he would not have referred to himself as an Anglo-Catholic (which is one of several patterns in the Anglican Church).

Fyi, yesterday January 3 was The Professor's birthday.

We have seen the movie and enjoyed it very much. All of the child actors were excellent. I disagree that Susan was "bland". She was being a Big Sister at times, just as Peter was spot on in the "Big Brother being responsible, but shouldn't try to be Dad" role. Lucy was portrayed brilliantly

Ebor

[Kollyvas]

Loving memory of the creator of Middle Earth...Was Tolkien a convert then to Rome or always a RC--I seem to remember reading he was an Anglo-Catholic...
R

[Ebor]

J.R.R. Tolkien's mother was (from what I have read) a Baptist who converted to the RCC when Tolkien was about 8. She died what he was 12 and he and his brother were raised by an RC priest, a Fr. Morgan, whom their mother had entrusted them to so that they would stay RC.

So, one could say that Tolkien was raised and remained RC for the rest of his life. To the best of my knowledge there was no time when he was Anglo-Catholic.

Ebor

[Ebor]

The reason that the Tolkien brothers were raised by Fr. Morgan was that their father had died in South Africa (where the boys had been born) when the Professor was 4.

Ebor