accursed Charn and other matters

frodosampippinmerry · 01-26-2011, 12:23 PM

The deplorable word and the tree of youth in Narnia got me thinking. Aslan said everything works according to its nature, but if used the wrong way, the consequences could be bad. I've often wondered if C.S. Lewis ever comented on his own work like Tolkien, or if there is a forum for people who shared their world view to discuss their works in that context, because it seems that Aslan wanted the rings hidden so no one could use it them after Digory, yet he didn't say destroy them, and in the last book they are used again trying to respond to Tirian's distress call. Was Aslan, who in C.S. Lewis's story LWW is a Type of Christ forbidding the use or the improper use of the rings? In MN Aslan said the fruit of youth could either protect Narnia as it was created to be if use of the apples was authorized, or turn it into an evil empire like Charn. In that book Jadis mentions Charn and several other places she evidently destroyed-possibly other worlds or other kingdoms of her world, and I wonder if the deplorable word was something like stealing an apple thinking to protect Narnia only to have the protection turn ugly?

01-26-2011, 12:23 PM	#1
frodosampippinmerry Hobbit Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 38	accursed Charn and other matters The deplorable word and the tree of youth in Narnia got me thinking. Aslan said everything works according to its nature, but if used the wrong way, the consequences could be bad. I've often wondered if C.S. Lewis ever comented on his own work like Tolkien, or if there is a forum for people who shared their world view to discuss their works in that context, because it seems that Aslan wanted the rings hidden so no one could use it them after Digory, yet he didn't say destroy them, and in the last book they are used again trying to respond to Tirian's distress call. Was Aslan, who in C.S. Lewis's story LWW is a Type of Christ forbidding the use or the improper use of the rings? In MN Aslan said the fruit of youth could either protect Narnia as it was created to be if use of the apples was authorized, or turn it into an evil empire like Charn. In that book Jadis mentions Charn and several other places she evidently destroyed-possibly other worlds or other kingdoms of her world, and I wonder if the deplorable word was something like stealing an apple thinking to protect Narnia only to have the protection turn ugly?