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Thread #41544 Message #599852
Posted By: Brían
28-Nov-01 - 09:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is Lord of Rings offensive to fundament. too
Subject: RE: BS: IsL. OfRings offensive to fundamenta.too
I actually found both The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings to have very conservative messages. The notion I believe Frodo had of always having a Shire that stayed the same to return to sounds to me like the 50's American Ideal tha many Christian Conservatives hold dear. C. S. Lewis, by the way, was a theologian. The Last Battle is actually a description of Armageddon for children. Read his Screwtape Letters if you want to see Radical Right-Wing Christian arguments.
That being said, I do remember both stories fondly. The president of the art school where I earned my useless degree suggested I read The Lord of the Rings in an effort to get me to "lighten up".