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Dragons & Angels: World-Making in Lewis and Tolkien w/ Dr. David C. Downing

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Lewis and Tolkien's Dragons

Tolkien's dragons tend to be not just symbols of cunning and malice or something evil. Lewis tends to go fairly quickly, what am I trying to accomplish in the reader's minds? What am I hoping there will be? That sounds too didactic. Tolkien was much more into God as the creator of our world and our sensibilities.

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