No, don't tear down your stories! *clings to them with white-knuckled hands* To be honest, one reason I have been writing so much Calormen and Archenland is that I am a little intimidated by Golden Age Narnia proper -- dealing with humans, no matter how tricky the politics involved, is much easier than dealing with the jumble of Talking Beasts and other non-human beings and sorting out how such disparate peoples could live together in something approximating harmony. Yet you do it with such grace.
Edmund, Edmund, Edmund. I do love him so, yet I never write him straight on. I suspect this is because I am circling around the necessity of writing a story about his view of Jadis and his time as a traitor, and I have not yet solidified my ideas on that. (Except I am dead certain there was no sexual abuse involved. I read Jadis as asexual, so the idea of her using sex as a weapon flat out refuses to compute, no matter how excellently other people have written stories using that premise.) But he was doubly at sea at the beginning of the Pevensies' reign, since he had to work out who he was in addition to working out how to rule... and while Shasta was never a traitor, he has a similar job of self-definition ahead of him at the end of HHB.
The way Lewis defines kingship in HHB and MN is something that struck me very deeply when I was a child, and is a large part of the moral measuring stick I hold up to leaders even as an adult. :-)
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Date: 2011-09-17 08:32 pm (UTC)Edmund, Edmund, Edmund. I do love him so, yet I never write him straight on. I suspect this is because I am circling around the necessity of writing a story about his view of Jadis and his time as a traitor, and I have not yet solidified my ideas on that. (Except I am dead certain there was no sexual abuse involved. I read Jadis as asexual, so the idea of her using sex as a weapon flat out refuses to compute, no matter how excellently other people have written stories using that premise.) But he was doubly at sea at the beginning of the Pevensies' reign, since he had to work out who he was in addition to working out how to rule... and while Shasta was never a traitor, he has a similar job of self-definition ahead of him at the end of HHB.
The way Lewis defines kingship in HHB and MN is something that struck me very deeply when I was a child, and is a large part of the moral measuring stick I hold up to leaders even as an adult. :-)