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TLC Forum We'll leave the lamppost on for you. 2016-07-28T22:37:53 https://www.thelionscall.com/forum/app.php/feed/topic/485 2016-07-28T22:37:53 2016-07-28T22:37:53 https://www.thelionscall.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=485&p=75082#p75082 <![CDATA[Re: CS Lewis' Storytelling Techniques]]>
I always thought the way Lewis occasionally steps out of the narrator role to address readers directly (e.g., to admonish readers never to close the door and thus shut themselves up in a wardrobe) was a charming effect, making me feel more connected somehow to the story-voice.
It worked well when my mom used to read the books aloud to my sister and I when we were little. My mom, I think, especially loved those parts.

Statistics: Posted by HermitoftheNorthernMarch — Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:37 pm

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]]> 2015-07-26T19:28:46 2015-07-26T19:28:46 https://www.thelionscall.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=485&p=55304#p55304 <![CDATA[Re: CS Lewis' Storytelling Techniques]]>
Try counting pages, and in every page where there is a picture or a chapter heading or a chapter end, how many lines are left out.

Then count words per line.

For safety, count words per line in normal and in dialogue, and make separate calculations.

Statistics: Posted by hansgeorg — Sun Jul 26, 2015 7:28 pm

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I am unsure of how to describe Lewis' style because I compare other books I read to it, but the narrative never confused me.
I feel it is also easier to read Lewis' style than Tolkien's, but Tolkien's style for LOTR was very immersive when I first read it when I was twelve. Maybe I was just the right age, but Middle Earth felt very real because of all the consistent detail Tolkien wrote, and I was glad to see how visually similar the movies looked in the way of color schemes and settings.

Statistics: Posted by HermitoftheNorthernMarch — Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:57 pm

]]> 2015-07-22T09:33:00 2015-07-22T09:33:00 https://www.thelionscall.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=485&p=54941#p54941 <![CDATA[Re: CS Lewis' Storytelling Techniques]]>
Livy is a historian, and we get lots of stories of Roman Antiquities (like Romulus and Remus, or carreer of Numa Pompilius) from him, unless we know Greek as well as Latin.

Statistics: Posted by hansgeorg — Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:33 am

]]> 2015-07-22T03:04:43 2015-07-22T03:04:43 https://www.thelionscall.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=485&p=54918#p54918 <![CDATA[Re: CS Lewis' Storytelling Techniques]]> Statistics: Posted by Ariel.of.Narnia — Wed Jul 22, 2015 3:04 am

]]> 2015-07-21T21:21:06 2015-07-21T21:21:06 https://www.thelionscall.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=485&p=54869#p54869 <![CDATA[Re: CS Lewis' Storytelling Techniques]]> On the other hand, even history books tell a story and have ways of going about it, so from that point of view, it's just as interesting to compare, seeing as Lewis never went into that kind of detail.

Statistics: Posted by marmota-b — Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:21 pm

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Statistics: Posted by Lucy Took — Tue Jul 21, 2015 8:58 pm

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I would say The Hobbit is intermediate between Narnia and LotR as far as story-telling is concerned. On the other hand, Silmarillion is even more sparse in detail, a chapter is often like the equivalent of a whole Narnia book.

Statistics: Posted by hansgeorg — Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:36 am

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It comes quite a lot in Arabian Nights - though that is for other reasons not a work I can totally from all points of view recommend. I highly liked it in my teens, except for some passages which made me squirm. And those were not about setting a story within a story or even a story within a story within a story.

Have you noted that chapters in LotR are much longer than those in Narnia?

Is it just that scenes are described in more detail? Or are there also more scenes per chapter? I don't really know. I guess it is both. And dividing chapters in scenes is subjective anyway. One can see a division which another fails to see. But I think the comparison is useful.

EDIT : teens = more like preteens and very early teens.

Statistics: Posted by hansgeorg — Sat Jul 18, 2015 6:52 pm

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Statistics: Posted by hobbit_of_narnia — Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:03 am

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Statistics: Posted by marmota-b — Wed Jul 15, 2015 9:33 am

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