#c-s-lewis — Public Fediverse posts

Are there special rules for a Jesus fursona

https://piefed.social/c/196/p/2057246/are-there-special-rules-for-a-jesus-fursona

Les trois infos du jour valent le détour !

- Y'aurait-il une polémique Octavia Butler ? Son éditeur américain veut rééditer un livre qu'elle ne voulait pas voir ressortir.
- Bon, Narnia sera en retard ! Rendez-vous dans l'autre monde en 2027... Dommage...
- On a un chouette roman de science-fiction à vous présenter.

Tout ça, c'est sur le site Actusf.com.

#sciencefiction #sciencefictionfan #sciencefictionbook #sciencefictionbooktok #OctaviaButler #Narnia #narniatok #CSLewis #gretagerwigfilm

Narnia de Greta Gerwig est repoussé à 2027 !

Mais cette fois, on a une date...

Les infos : https://buff.ly/9IVfS5J

#Narnia #CSLewis #GretaGerwig #fantasy

Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew will be with us in 2027. Details here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2026/05/04/greta-gerwigs-narnia-the-magicians-nephew-will-be-with-us-in-2027/

#CSLewis #Narnia #GretaGerwig #TheMagiciansNephew #Aslan #film #Netflix #TheLionTheWitchandTheWardrobe #fantasy #MerylStreep #DanielCraig

Failure teaches. Success listens. Each setback has its lesson.
#Quotes #SuccessThroughFailure #FailForward #CSLewis
https://quotes.thisgrandpablogs.com/fail-forward-to-success/

Very excited to share this episode of the podcast. This time we are discussing C.S. Lewis's Perelandra, one of the shortest, long books you'll ever read. Some tangents that are featured include Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space and The Little Mermaid:

We also have a new thumbnail done by the amazing Andrew Mosher, who we had as a guest once!

His art: https://www.andrewmosherart.com/

This episode: https://zencastr.com/z/TiZit5DO

#podcast #cslewis #perelandra #scifi

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/17/c-s-lewis-longing/

Review: The Space Trilogy is an Interesting Look at How Temptation Works…(Spoilers)

Maybe I’m writing this a little prematurely since I’m only halfway through C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy, but I needed something to write about this week, so here we are.

For those of you who didn’t know, The Space Trilogy is a series that C.S. Lewis wrote after coming to an agreement with Tolkien that science fiction too often lacked “what we [Tolkien and Lewis] really like in stories.” Thus, the two literary geniuses set out to write their own works of science fiction as amateurs, with Lewis crafting the Space Trilogy and Tolkien writing the story “The Lost Road,” which later became a big part of the larger “Fall of Numenor” narrative.

Funny enough, you can actually see the influence that Tolkien had on Lewis throughout the Trilogy. For one thing, the main character is Dr. Elwin Ransom, a name that is shared with the narrator of “The Lost Road,” Elwin (a.k.a. Aelfwine.) Ransom is also a philologist from Oxbridge University (Tolkien taught at Oxford), was born the same year as Tolkien, and also fought in WWI and the Somme. Lewis also appears as a narrator – especially in the second book – as a close friend of Ransom’s. As though that wasn’t enough, for the absolute Tolkien nerds reading The Space Trilogy, we can also see similarities in the languages that Tolkien created (particularly Quenya) and Lewis’ language of Old Solar. In Letter 276, Tolkien comments on how the word “Eldil” is related to his word “Eldar” (Elves.) He also commented on how the names Tor and Tinidril are very similar to the names of his characters, Tuor and Idril.

But besides the funny Easter eggs pointing to Lewis’ friendship with Tolkien hidden throughout the story, The Space Trilogy explores an interesting question of what life would be like if the Fall never happened.

In the first book, Ransom is kidnapped by the megalomaniacal scientist, Dr. Weston, and taken to the planet Malacandra (Mars), where he believes he is going to be sacrificed to some alien deity. He escapes Weston and his helper, and eventually meets the locals, of which there are three distinct species, ruled by the Eldil, which are kind of like angelic beings. The people of Malacandra are not entirely untainted as death is a thing that happens there and Ransom finds out that there is such a thing as “bent” hnau (beings), though they’re rare. Overall, though, the Malacandrians stick to following the Eldil, especially Oyarsa, who’s the being sent by the God of The Space Trilogy (Maleldil) to rule Malacandra, and when faced with temptation in the form of Weston, stand fast in their loyalty to Oyarsa and Maleldil.

Then in the second book, Perelandra, the exploration of the question of what life would be like if the Fall never happened grow starker. In this book, Maleldil sends Ransom to the planet, Perelandra (Venus), to save the inhabitants from being corrupted by Weston, who has become possessed by Satan. He arrives and almost immediately meets Tinidril, who is that planet’s version of Eve. She has no knowledge of what sin or death is, only what the will of Maleldil is. However, it’s when Weston arrives that she is tempted to disobey Maleldil by going onto solid land, something that’s the equivalent of the biblical fruit of good and evil on Perelandra.

From here, the story becomes one giant debate, with Weston trying to convince Tinidril to disobey Maleldil and Ransom trying to show her that Weston is evil. It’s at this point where Perelandra begins to almost feel like if the instructions given in The Screwtape Letters were being put into practice. After all, the now demon-possessed Weston doesn’t tell Tinidril outright what his plans are, as we so often think temptation looks like. Instead, he tells her stories about tragic, but powerful women on Earth and how she could be that if she disobeys Maleldil. She can write her own story, and heck, maybe it’s even Maleldil’s will that she goes on the solid land; he’s just holding out on her.

The reason I love this back and forth so much is because it’s one of the best renderings of how the full conversation probably went in the Garden of Eden. The entire thing shows how subtle temptation can be, how it can even seem perfectly logical to go against God, and how easy it is to justify it. In the scenes where Weston is essentially trying to convince Tinidril that it’s actually Maleldil’s hidden will that she disobey, it struck a chord, as I’ve heard the same – or, at least, a similar – argument from staunch atheists, who say that if God exists, it must be His will that they don’t believe in Him, thus, it’s not their fault.

Until next time,

M.J.

George Orwell hating the detective stories of Dorothy L. Sayers doesn't surprise me so much; I've read enough of Orwell's writing to know that the fellow had strong and nasty opinions about many authors whom I like, and didn't like women very much at all. But J. R. R. Tolkien writing to his son Christopher that he loathed Gaudy Night and loathed Sayers and Harriet Vane and that Busman's Honeymoon made him feel sick is…something. That's really something. Sayers collided with the Inklings scene at one point, and I know that Jack Lewis conceived an animus towards Sayers (q.v. the character of "Fairy" Hardcastle in That Hideous Strength, who seems aimed at Sayers) and maybe Tolkien did as well.

(sighs) Tolkien is quite fallen as a pop-culture hero, in my eyes anyway. I'm still deeply attached to his work, but now I feel like the man himself is in desperate need of harsh critical reassessment, just as it's well past time for a merciless dissection of Clive Staples Lewis and his posthumous cult. In a just and well-tempered literary culture, I daresay that Tolkien ought to be remembered more the way that his friend Charles Williams is remembered as a fascinating oddity, a writer of vision but not the godfather of all fantasy literature. Ironically, it seems as if Prof. Tolkien himself was profoundly ambivalent about his own fantastical writings. Oughtn't there to be more attention to Tolkien's misgivings about his own work? Is it actually a good thing to be locked into imitating and emulating his laborious, lore-heavy approach to writing fiction?

"There is only one principle in Hell. Bring back food or be food yourself." - C S Lewis, 'The Screwtape Letters' #BookWormSat #CSLewis #demonology #BookChatWeekly (I had to repost this because a Renaissance painting of Hell was AdultContent-ed. *sigh* So here's 'Calvin In Hell' by Heemskerck)

Yeah, this tracks. Kinda disappointed I got "0" on Lewis -- I think there were several times my second option would have boosted the #CSLewis-quotient (or #Aquinas for that matter), but I'll take #Luther and #Calvin on top. What's your result? https://whichtheologianareyou.netlify.app

#Christianity #Theology

Friends to the end...

https://piefed.social/c/lotrmemes/p/1903495/friends-to-the-end

My friend Connor wrote a book! #Inklings #CSLewis https://gcsalter.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/in-which-i-wrote-a-book/

@hobbs @joel

Just finishing it now for the second time. Read it for the first time last decade.

Lovely novel, classic #CSLewis.

The scientific parts, being a 1930s novel, are of course quite humorously wrong at times, but it's still a lovely read.

Reading #CSLewis #OutOfTheSilentPlanet is a fitting balm for the heart after recent major news. — #microblogging #MicroToot: 95 characters

A quotation from C. S. Lewis

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
An Experiment in Criticism, Epilogue (1961)

More about this quote: wist.info/lewis-cs/82426/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cslewis #books #literature #reading #selfactualization #selfimprovement #transcendence

Ayn Rand Really, Really Hated C.S. Lewis
https://firstthings.com/ayn-rand-really-really-hated-c-s-lewis/
#Inklings #CSLewis #objectivism

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C. S. Lewis

The Four Loves "There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable . . ." Sale: $17.99 to $1.99 by C. S. Lewis Rating: 4.7/5 (1,925 Reviews) #Christian #Philosophy #Love #Faith #Books #CSLewis #BookSky

The Four Loves

Mere Ideology: The politicisation of C.S. Lewis
https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/mere-ideology-the-politicisation-of-c-s-lewis/
#Inklings #CSLewis #politics #theology #bookstodon

This was a good talk, not just for the attribution of fake #CSLewis quotes to a guy named “B.S. Lewis”. https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2026/02/06/longdefeat/