![]() And as we now know, Christian stories heavily influenced the "Narnia" books. ![]() Well, Lewis used to be an atheist and Lewis' biographer Alan Jacobs told me that Tolkien, who was a Roman Catholic, was the one who actually converted Lewis to Christianity. A lot of the talk about this movie is its Christian influence a lot of people are talking about that. Tolkien were both professors at Oxford in England in the late 1920s.ĬHADWICK: And this is kind of a John Lennon-Paul McCartney sort of thing, inspiring each other to great works?īRAND: That's right. Lewis and "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. And apparently, Lewis was friends with another imaginative writer who's had a little posthumous success, just a little of his own, in Hollywood. You had a conversation with a biographer of C.S. Lewis' fantasy series, "The Chronicles of Narnia."ĬHADWICK: Well, that's it. But this is the film that's based on the first book in C.S. I'm probably one of the few with children who haven't seen it. ![]() ![]() Madeleine, I mentioned earlier, talking to Edward, that the number-one box office movie this weekend is "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." And you've seen it? And joining me now my colleague Madeleine Brand. ![]()
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