Yeah, I was reading VDT last night and actually feeling really weirdly emotional and wishing I hadn't started this reread--it's not the Christianity of the books per se that bothers me, but the casual brutality of the ending of TLB and its message that heaven is better than here, which I find really, really dubious, and I think I would even if I were Christian--though granted it would be an extreme interpretation I think you can totally construct an interpretation of TLB that basically says, Kill yourself now, the Shadowlands suck and they aren't real anyway, heaven is better! And I passionately disagree with all those ideas, and I would even if I were still a theist; the point of Frodo going to Valinor is that it's after he's won through his struggle, the point of Timeheart is that it's there for after you've laid down your life, or simply lived it out, in service of Life and in defiance of the Lone Power, to totally speak on two levels at once. And I don't agree with Lewis that it wouldn't bother the Pevensies, and for me and I think for them too Narnia is just as real, or would be, and I think in some ways he violates the reader-author contract w/r/t suspension of disbelief.