Pullman rips on LOTR, others

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Yes, it is so very inappropriate to show up for Sunday service in nylons, and likely directly displaying the ill after affects of Saturday night partying. If only Susan had become interested in hats and the modest covering of one's head with them, that kind of vanity (and sinful coverup) would without a doubt have escaped Lewis' chastisement.

I don't understand what you mean at all.

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

I don't understand what you mean at all.

I suppose you could put that down to my being one of the folks who Squatter anathamatised in his post. I wasn't aware that at the Barrow Downs we stigmatise people for holding opinions contrary to our own however much we delight in excoriating the opinions.

Originally Posted by davem

I don't think Lewis can be exempted from criticism - though I take Squatter's point that what Lewis is attacking is Susan's materialism, rather than her sexual maturity. For one thing, Lewis chose one of his female characters to be cast into outer darkness rather than one of the males.

The problem with any kind of allegorical work like Narnia is that their images, symbols, events, plot lines get all tied in with the major tendencies of the bit being allegorized.