XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: theswain@operamail.com   
      
   Dan Drake wrote:   
   > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:44 UTC, Larry Swain    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>... [excellent reply snipped]   
   >>   
   >>Second, I'd say that both TOlkien and Lewis were far more influenced by   
   >>general anti-semitic attitudes current in European culture than anything   
   >>as specific as Belloc.   
   >   
   >   
   > Yes, but I think Lewis deserves some credit as the least anti-Semitic of   
   > modern actively Christian English writers. I can think of only one   
   > incident in his work that shows, or implies, a negative Jewish stereotype,   
   > and that's a fairly trivial incident in The Great Divorce. Others' mileage   
   > may vary, and I wouldn't mind hearing about it. (Sometimes I'm not attuned   
   > to European versions of stereotypes, having been raised among the American   
   > ones. Really.)   
   >   
   >   
   >>...  Seeing orcs as Muslims seems to me   
   >>to be as much a misreading as that (or as seeing the recent movie The   
   >>300 as an anti-Iranian Bush administration diatribe).   
   >>   
   >   
   > (Have you told the bloggers who LOVE that movie that they're seeing it all   
   > wrong? :)   
   >   
   >   
   I was talking about the books rather than the movies.  PJ's   
   characterization is a different story altogether, but Tolkien can't be   
   held responsible for how PJ misread the book.   
      
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