Despite the friendship between J.R.R. Tolkien & C.S. Lewis, their worlds of “Middle-Earth” and “Narnia” feel quite different. This video essay examines the role allegory plays in making Aslan’s...
        • kamenLady.
          6•3 months ago

          I’m very fond of comments in discussion forums reviewing this kind of literature.

    • alex [they, il]OPEnglish
      8•3 months ago

      Well it’s about books. I’d be happy to crosspost to a better place if I missed it :)

  • @[email protected]
    8•3 months ago

    Narnia doesn’t feel real to me in the same way LOTR does because our world is involved in it. All isekais are like that to me

  • @[email protected]English
    3•3 months ago

    They are both well written, and when I’m in the middle of either book I’m completely absorbed in its world. In that moment, I’m not thinking about realism at all.

    It’s only when I put the book down that questions like that come up.