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   Message 485 of 1,925   
   Steve Hayes to spamgard@blueyonder.co.uk   
   Re: Humans in Narnia (was Re: Evil Entit   
   19 Dec 05 03:54:29   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   XPost: rec.arts.books, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:30:29 GMT, "Christopher Kreuzer"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Steuard Jensen  wrote:   
   >> Quoth hayesstw@yahoo.com in article   
   >> :   
   >>> Now that prompts a question, which I might need to re-read the whole   
   >>> series to answer. At the beginning the faun asks if Lucy is a   
   >>> daughter of Eve, but presumably all humans in Narnia were sons of   
   >>> Adam and daughters of Eve (as opposed to the talking animals). It   
   >>> suggests that either there were no humans in Narnia at the time, or   
   >>> at least that the faun was unfamiliar with them.   
   >>   
   >> That's one of the things that always feels like an inconsistency in   
   >> Narnia to me.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >Hmm. I've nearly finished re-reading the Narnia books. I'd love to   
   >discuss some of these things, and the LWW film (just saw it this   
   >weekend), but I'm not sure which newsgroups to discuss it in (I tend to   
   >only read the Tolkien newsgroups). Maybe I'll throw random Tolkien   
   >comments in to keep it on-topic for the Tolkien newsgroups. Contrasting   
   >the theology of Tolkien and Lewis. Should be fun! :-)   
      
   Why not crosspost at least to alt.books.inklings, where Tolkien stuff is   
   on-topic as well?   
      
   And in the case of the Narnia stories, alt.books.cs-lewis should also be OK.   
      
      
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