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You 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 t
by eesmith 3y ago
You 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?"