![]() Professor ALAN JACOBS (Wheaton College): For Tolkien, he was very insistent that there was a reason why we respond to certain stories as powerfully as we do, and it's because those stories address something that is very deep inside of us. And as we now know, Christian stories heavily influenced the "Narnia" books. Well, Lewis used to be an atheist and Lewis' biographer Alan Jacobs told me that Tolkien, who was a Roman Catholic, was the one who actually converted Lewis to Christianity. A lot of the talk about this movie is its Christian influence a lot of people are talking about that. Tolkien were both professors at Oxford in England in the late 1920s.ĬHADWICK: And this is kind of a John Lennon-Paul McCartney sort of thing, inspiring each other to great works?īRAND: That's right. Lewis and "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. And apparently, Lewis was friends with another imaginative writer who's had a little posthumous success, just a little of his own, in Hollywood. ![]() You had a conversation with a biographer of C.S. ![]() Lewis' fantasy series, "The Chronicles of Narnia."ĬHADWICK: Well, that's it. ![]() But this is the film that's based on the first book in C.S. I'm probably one of the few with children who haven't seen it. Madeleine, I mentioned earlier, talking to Edward, that the number-one box office movie this weekend is "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." And you've seen it? And joining me now my colleague Madeleine Brand. ![]()
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