What Made CS Lewis Throw Narnia In The Trash

One of the world's leading Scholars on Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, tells the story of how Tolkien almost made C.S. Lewis throw out the Narnia stories.

Diana Glyer has been studying the Inklings, which is a writers group that consisted of many top authors, including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, who discussed and shared their work with each other.

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[erhon]

I’m so glad it didn’t stay in the trash

[jaewokG]

nothing 'changed', he just decided not to trash his friend in public and that just because he thought it sucked, doesn't mean other people can't fairly enjoy it. … this is why god invented chocolate _and_ vanilla … and for you freaks out there, strawberry as well … apparently.

[Henry-dvtw]

He probably realized that kids liked it and chilled out

[soapiscooler]

I honestly think it was the difference in the writings, Tolkien, a hard HARD fantasy author would dislike anything cross breeding real life and fantasy (He wouldnt have liked Harry Potter, The Wizard of Oz ((or maybe he did correct me if im wrong) or other light fantasy stories

[kristalt]

What a beautiful and infromative video and gave quite detail of my fave author's character, C.S. Lewis, and his friend which is also a great author, Tolkkein.

[Jonathan-vpjb]

C.S. Lewis was lucy Barfield's Godfather. He dedicated "The Lion the witch and the wardrobe" to her.

[nicholasadams]

Great video, keep up the awesome work y’all do

[RubeRad]

@Ethan "What is up with Narnia all the time with random characters showing up, like Father Christmas, or those sylphs dancing in the woods"

It's not random at all, and I can't believe a Lewis scholar like Dr Glyer would let this drop. Just as Dr Glyer wrote The Company We Keep for academics, and distilled it to Bandersnatch for a general audience, Michael Ward wrote Planet Narnia for academics, and The Narnia Code for a general audience. He explains clearly how the underlying, hidden theme binding the Narnia books together, is The Planets -- in their medieval conception anyway, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Each book is one planet, and is suffused with that planet's ethos and mythology.

Read either The Narnia Code or Planet Narnia, and it will enable you to read all of Narnia again with fresh eyes!

[cosmickilroy]

It was probably Tumnus being a satyr, but being entirely different than they are in mythology idk My guess

[themarlboromandalorian]

YOU CAN'T HAVE FATHER SHITTING CHRISTMAS IN THE SAME STORY AS A FAWN.

[juneyshu]

I love both. Lion resonates in my spirit, tho, I am just a born good guy. Suffered for it, I did, but all good.

[christopher]

Tolkien was just jealous, obviously...

[denisebruggers]

I don’t think Tolkien understood enough about the biblical God to appreciate narratives with deep and recurring spiritual truths that stick with the reader into adulthood. An example- that fleeting scene in Voyage of the Dawn Treader where Lucy succumbs to the temptation of using a spell to listen to her friends talk about her has informed my reactions to countless experiences since I read it at 8 years old. I also enjoyed the adventure of LOTR but I can’t think of any surprising life-changing attitude shift sthat ever came of it. It conveyed: be brave, be loyal, don’t give up.

[MegaCurtisimo]

Tolkien, a man whose most famous story is basically a re-telling of the antediluvian world being purged of the Nephilim & the practitioners of Luciferian magick. Scenes when people finally figure out Lord of the Rings is basically an elaborate version of Genesis chapters 6-9 & the Enuma Elish.

[thedillo]

I'm sorry to inform you but I have unsubscribed from your channel due to YouTube's heavy-handed and unfair censorship. This is not due to you or your content in any way.

[paradisecityX]

Narnia is far better than anything from Middle Earth. Aslan is king!