hansgeorg
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Topics: 6 / Replies: 542
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Re: CS Lewis' Storytelling Techniques

We can start with some stats, if you don't mind. Won't link to the post I'm quoting, but I included 3 childrens books by JRRT along with the seven chr...

11 years ago
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Re: Jesus Does All Things Well

If your uncle is baptised, and loves God by all of his heart, well, one day one Hawkings would, if asking God why he was created, be asked to look at ...

11 years ago
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Re: Narnian Currency

I am not sure he had an equal dislike for all books.And I am sure CSL had a way of very disrespectfully poking JRRT's side about Middle-Earth. Like - ...

11 years ago
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Re: Narnian Currency

As the two trees that grew up from coins in Uncle Andrew's pocket are gold and silver, I get a hunch that CSL was thinking of the two trees in Valinor...

11 years ago
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Re: Too old for Narnia

Now obviously Narnia is not Neverland. There are lots of grown ups in Narnia and the surrounding lands. Lots of people even go to that world as grow...

11 years ago
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Re: CS Lewis' Storytelling Techniques

Did the survey, but was first disappointed that the thread wasn't a discussion about some actual storytelling techniques (like making chapters roughly...

11 years ago
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Re: Jadis and Tash

I have an idea that Tash as ancestor of Tisrocs was a man.Snorre says Odin was a man, Frey was a man, their descendants were Ynglings in Uppsala. Sinc...

11 years ago
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Re: Hello from the Czech Republic

Thank you for the clarification!

11 years ago
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Re: Hello from the Czech Republic

Seed cakes in particular - we don't have those, so they got replaced by poppy seed koláče. But if I remember correctly, there's also mention of quark/...

11 years ago
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Re: Hello from the Czech Republic

Grüß Gott, Frl Murmeltier! Oh, I mean, Gesegneten Sonntag!Hello from a Viennese boy who knows how close Czechoslovakia was (back in late 70's) to my o...

11 years ago
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Re: Charn

And if Tash (the idol in Tashbaan and the demon, and possibly before all this same demon worshipped by Jadis in Charn) looks a bit like certain assyri...

11 years ago
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