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not directly christian, but they have christian elements, and the authors are (uh, were) christian
Aslan creates the world
Narnia: Aslan= Jesus, dying to save the children from the white witch (satan)
and: the "white witch", is satan, disguising as an "angel of light"
LOTR: Morgoth... Sauron = satan
the ring = sin
pre LOTR: silmarillion:
Illuvatar creates the earth
Morgoth tries to change what is being created, rebells agaisnt Illuvathar, and leaves/ is sent away
He fights the Ainur ("angels") and all the creatures they create
He is the one who turns Sauron into what he later becomes (LOTR)
but no, still not really christian books
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My message what that they are allegories of Christ. J.R. Tolkien was a good Christian, South African, and writer. He wrote Lord of the Rings as an allegory, Aragorn representing Christ, and each of the character and places symbolically representing many things in the Christian understanding.
If you'd like to learn about it, read Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues:
Exploring the Spiritual Themes of The Lord of the Rings
Also, C.S. similarly wrote what seemed to be an allegorical story of Christ. He, however, submitted that the Christian elements found within his story were suppositional.
Lewis, an expert on the subject of allegory[8] and the author of The Allegory of Love, maintained that the books were not allegory, and preferred to call the Christian aspects of them "suppositional". This indicates Lewis' view of Narnia as a fictional parallel universe. As Lewis wrote in a letter to a Mrs Hook in December 1958:
"If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair [a character in The Pilgrim's Progress] represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality, however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all.[9]" -C.S. Lewis
Although Lewis did not consider them allegorical, and did not set out to incorporate Christian themes in Wardrobe, he was not hesitant to point them out after the fact. In one of his last letters, written in March 1961, Lewis writes:
"Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He [Christ] would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here. I pictured Him becoming a lion there because (a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts; (b) Christ is called "The Lion of Judah" in the Bible; (c) I'd been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work. The whole series works out like this.
The Magician's Nephew tells the Creation and how evil entered Narnia.
The Lion etc the Crucifixion and Resurrection.
Prince Caspian restoration of the true religion after corruption.
The Horse and His Boy the calling and conversion of a heathen.
The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" the spiritual life (especially in Reepicheep).
The Silver Chair the continuing war with the powers of darkness
The Last Battle the coming of the Antichrist (the Ape), the end of the world and the Last Judgement.[3] "
-C.S. Lewis
-Exert taken from Wikipedia
If this is unsatisfactory for you, then by all means there are a variety of books which detail to the elements of Christianity both put into these books and the authors who wrote them.
Anyway...I though their Christian aspects were common knowledge, but apparently I was mistaken.
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false but i get stuck getting up at 5am almost every day lol i hate mornings hehehehe ok most mornings
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person below would love to drive a big hyster forklift in the rain and lightning so i don't have too
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