Mythological Multiculturalism
Dec. 13th, 2005 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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zimbra1006:
Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one (or a lot of reasons) why I like/love/adore you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.
This article on creating the fantastic beings for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe contains some information on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien's conflicting opinions on incoporating such creatures.
"Tolkien, who relied heavily on Norse mythology for Rings, thought a fantasy world worked best when its mythology was self-enclosed. Encountering figures from different traditions in the same story would break the spell of the fairy tale, Tolkien argued."
I think I'm somewhat more on Lewis' side in this respect. But then, my favorite fantasy series has so many different types of weird people and creatures as to make Narnia look downright tame by comparison. For that matter, it also incorporates Santa Claus. While I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings books, I never found it to be as much fun as Oz, Narnia, or (if I'm allowed to include a more recent fantasy series) Harry Potter.
I still haven't seen the Narnia movie yet. I'm hoping that maybebethje and I can go on Thursday, if nothing else comes up to get in the way.
zimbra1006:Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one (or a lot of reasons) why I like/love/adore you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.
This article on creating the fantastic beings for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe contains some information on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien's conflicting opinions on incoporating such creatures.
"Tolkien, who relied heavily on Norse mythology for Rings, thought a fantasy world worked best when its mythology was self-enclosed. Encountering figures from different traditions in the same story would break the spell of the fairy tale, Tolkien argued."
I think I'm somewhat more on Lewis' side in this respect. But then, my favorite fantasy series has so many different types of weird people and creatures as to make Narnia look downright tame by comparison. For that matter, it also incorporates Santa Claus. While I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings books, I never found it to be as much fun as Oz, Narnia, or (if I'm allowed to include a more recent fantasy series) Harry Potter.
I still haven't seen the Narnia movie yet. I'm hoping that maybe
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