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Having read both, that's the closest link I can think of, and it's a very tenuous similarity on which to base the accusation of Lewis having "ripped off" Tolkie
by andrewflnr 3y ago
Having read both, that's the closest link I can think of, and it's a very tenuous similarity on which to base the accusation of Lewis having "ripped off" Tolkien. That's only the biggest, most obvious unnecessary dig in the piece, coming from an author who doesn't even know how to spell "Tumnus". She's right about the headline, but you can stop reading there.
- eesmith 3y agoYou are right. The Wikipedia source material is even more tenuous than the Wikipedia text, saying only: > The creation of Narnia, of course, draws heavily on the book of Genesis. Perhaps it is also colored by Tolkien’s creation account in The Silmarillion, where the world is brought into being by a symphony of song. https://archive.org/details/intowardrobecsle00down/page/58/mode/2up?q=Silmarillion https://archive.org/details/intowardrobecsle00down/page/58/m... That speculative side-note doesn't seem appropriate for Wikipedia, and in the talk you see "Oh yeah, is it encyclopaedic to observe that similarities with Tolkien's creation myth will be because they both used the same source material for ideas?"
- wolverine876 3y agoAlso, maybe Tolkien ripped off Lewis. They shared many ideas with each other. Maybe they both heard it from a third person.
- andrewflnr 3y agoPer your other comment, I think common influence is by far the most likely, probably some myth or other.
- southwesterly 3y agoThey did read their works to each other in a pub. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inklings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inklings