Narnia/Silmarillion

[Brooks A. Rowlett]

No: HPFGUIDX 2286

> >
> > By the way, let's ask another question  - relating Narnia
> > (specifically, _The Magician's Nephew_), and the world as described
> > in Tolkien's _The Silmarillion_.  Anybody else notice that both
> > worlds come to be, in the same way - their Creator SINGS them into
> > existence?
> 
> Well, Tolkien and Lewis were friends at Oxford - maybe it was an in-joke
> between writer friends!
> 
> Alix

In fact I rather think that Lewis was inspired by Tolkien here (_The
Silmarillion_ was written long before it was ever published, so it could
easily have been written before _The Magician's Nephew_).  Not just an
in - joke, but that he liked the imagery so much he went ahead and used
it, figuring that _The Silmarillion_ would never actually be published.

-Brooks