Posted by Jock on August 22, 2001 at 12:16:31 from 213.77.240.48:
In Reply to: Resemblences to Lewis's Narnia children posted by Mary Ezzell on August 22, 2001 at 07:38:33:
Certainly the similarities seem more than coincidental and the chronology - Lewis wrote LWW in 1945 - is about right. It is pretty well inconceivable that Lewis would have been unaware of Ransom's SA series, the books were certainly known to Tolkein. There is a brief exchange of correspondence between Ransome and Tolkein published in Signalling from Mars. The letters are full of mutual respect.