Dragons & Angels: World-Making in Lewis and Tolkien w/ Dr. David C. Downing
Wade Center
The Ransom Trillities
David, you mentioned the ransom trillities. How does your theory apply to their other works? So Tolkien's some Aurelian, and then also the ransom trilogy with Lewis. And there's a dragon in Paralandra, which we mentioned. I was hoping somebody would ask me about the dragon. Is the word dragon itself what, Anglo-Saxon? Or what's its etymology? It goes back to Latin, Draco. Something profound.
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