I may or may not have said something about someone jossing the canon when I read the "I give to you forever this land of Narnia" line. And, yeah--I agree with you that Lewis didn't quite grok the shape of his own story to an extent. I don't know that I could come up with a citation for it, but there's all these little details that just don't go in the direction he wants, throughout the books.
I never thought of connecting this book or these books with PL, but I'm contemplating an HDM reread (as well as The Dark Is Rising sequence); I should reread that one too. I ♥ PL. I talk about this in my comments for one of the other books, but it's fascinating to read Narnia and to virtually be able to see where Pullman made his notes of things to engage with.
Yeah, Lewis & Tolkien, they're so obviously so similar, and their differences are so fascinating.
Your Watsonian explanation for Jadis makes a lot of sense to me. Even in this backstory book, there's so much that gets left off the page.
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Date: 2011-01-14 20:43 (UTC)I never thought of connecting this book or these books with PL, but I'm contemplating an HDM reread (as well as The Dark Is Rising sequence); I should reread that one too. I ♥ PL. I talk about this in my comments for one of the other books, but it's fascinating to read Narnia and to virtually be able to see where Pullman made his notes of things to engage with.
Yeah, Lewis & Tolkien, they're so obviously so similar, and their differences are so fascinating.
Your Watsonian explanation for Jadis makes a lot of sense to me. Even in this backstory book, there's so much that gets left off the page.