Pop singer Charli XCX is reportedly in line to play White Witch Jadis in Gerwig’s take on the Narnia-verse, which appears to be the first front in the war against the traditional version of CS Lewis’s ...

Tolkien was adamant that The Lord of the Rings was not an allegory, but this did not preclude ... of Tolkien's friend and fellow author, C. S. Lewis. But what about himself? Though the race ...

Tolkien and C.S. Lewis drank in pubs here and elsewhere in ... “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its ...

Conversely, Tolkien famously disliked and distrusted allegory and, despite his warm friendship with his peer C.S. Lewis, did not agree with his using Aslan as an allegory for Jesus Christ in The ...

The former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has described Tolkien’s great friend C.S. Lewis as a “Tory Anarchist”: someone who combines a fervent devotion to authority, tradition ...