When Ben said "Charlotte Lewis" I just knew her middle name would begin
with
an "S" and even better, he said her name was "Charlotte Staples Lewis".
(I'm not positive but I think Ben said her birthday was 11/29, too.) Well
Clive Staples Lewis is better known as CS Lewis, born 11/29/1898 famous
for
his Narnia series. But he also wrote according to Wikipedia:
His Space Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy novels (also called the Cosmic
Trilogy)
dealt with what Lewis saw as the then-current dehumanizing trends in
modern
science fiction. The first book, Out of the Silent Planet, was apparently
written following a conversation with his friend J. R. R. Tolkien about
these trends; Lewis agreed to write a "space travel" story and Tolkien a
"time travel" one. Tolkien's story, "The Lost Road", a tale connecting his
Middle-earth mythology and the modern world, was never completed. Lewis's
character of Ransom is based in part on Tolkien, a fact that Tolkien
himself
alludes to in his Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. The second novel,
Perelandra,
illustrates a new Garden of Eden, a new Adam and Eve, and a new "serpent
figure" to tempt them. The story illustrates a hypothesis of what could
have
happened if "our Eve" had resisted more firmly the temptation of the
serpent. The last novel in the Trilogy also contains numerous references
to
Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth. Many of the ideas presented
in
the books, particularly in That Hideous Strength, are dramatizations of
arguments made more formally in Lewis' The Abolition of Man.
I'm not a literature student, so does anyone here recognize the im****tance
of this to the "Lost" mythology? I don't see it immediately, but there
HAS
to be some significance here.
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