What is a clown but a goblin and a sprite and a tackle box of makeup?
One of my favorite historical deepdive topics is the friendship between CS Lewis (the author for The Chronicles of Narnia) and JRR Tolkien (the author for The Lord of the Rings).
There’s so much good stuff to talk about like how Tolkien nearly broke off his friendship with Lewis because he wanted to put Santa Claus in his books, or how Tolkien got pissed about CS Lewis being called an “ascetic writer” in an interview because he watched him sling back 4 beers at lunch the day before. Plus the fact that Tolkien famously hated his work being taken as an allegory or metaphor, meanwhile Lewis was like “if one person doesn’t understand that the lion is Jesus I’ll shoot myself”
But I think my favorite piece of their history together is the letter CS Lewis sent to JRR Tolkien describing Aslan.
Because you think back on this time period and go “everyone was so stuffy and uptight and miserable, they’re nothing like us”… but then the first ever drawing of Aslan by CS Lewis was this
agitated girl: mike put the camera down
mike: He ha why its a home movey
I’m supposed to go to the gym right now but I also really want to draw a dinosaur. This is what preworkout does to me.
I’m supposed to go to the gym right now but I also really want to draw a dinosaur. This is what preworkout does to me.
Curses are actually way easier than money conjuring. This comic is so fake
i want your lmao on my desk in one hour