Re: #2. Okay, there's a time for world-building and there's a time for story-telling. One can wish Lewis had spent a little more time (okay, a lot more time) on his world-building: e.g., how did Calormenes come to regard Aslan as a demon? Did the ur-Calormenes slip into the Narniaverse through an accidental chink, as the Telmarines did, and if not, why don't they physically resemble the other descendants of King Frank? Why do Talking Beasts live only in the country of Narnia, and nowhere else in the Narniaverse? etc.
But in truth, he didn't really need the answers to those questions when he was telling his tales. Possibly such answers might have changed the shape of the stories, but not by much: Rabadash would have remained Rabadash, the Penvensies would still have defeated Jadis, and so on. But we might have had a richer wealth of details in their telling.
How much of the history of the Narniaverse directly impacts the troubled courting dance of Cor and Aravis? Maybe Archenland-Calormen relations, but anything else? Throw into a drawer what isn't needed on the page.
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Date: 2010-03-26 01:25 am (UTC)But in truth, he didn't really need the answers to those questions when he was telling his tales. Possibly such answers might have changed the shape of the stories, but not by much: Rabadash would have remained Rabadash, the Penvensies would still have defeated Jadis, and so on. But we might have had a richer wealth of details in their telling.
How much of the history of the Narniaverse directly impacts the troubled courting dance of Cor and Aravis? Maybe Archenland-Calormen relations, but anything else? Throw into a drawer what isn't needed on the page.
Re: #1. Get Better Soon.