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34 minutes ago, Madrona said:

I don't want to get into a huge argument here, Narnia is a weird thing. But to back up the allegory statement...
If you followed Narnia's 'teachings' as Christianity... You'd be a gnostic henotheist (Or monolateralist) non-trinitarian No-Heller who believes in karma and reincarnation, has no idea what transubstantiation is, wouldn't need any concept of Christ-Sacrifice (this is just a magic spell), has their Christ as a living god in the sense of a immortal physical entity, and due to some really shaky passages that would totally get some interesting interpretations put to them, likely a sex/pleasure cultist. Which would transform Christianity into a religion so different I don't think it would be recognizable as Christian.

Yikes. Good thing narnia was just a children’s fantasy story with some (admittedly clumsy) christian allegory, and wasn’t christian teaching!

On 5/29/2018 at 7:41 AM, Mankcam said:

Tolkien was a Brit, and Lord of the RIngs is pretty hopeful and shiny

I disagree. I think LOTR was actually quite grim. Tolkien described himself as a pessimist.

Frodo failed. He had every intention to keep the ring. It was only luck that the ring was actually destroyed.

When I first started getting into Glorantha, it wasn't the ducks that threw me for a loop.

It was the mobile plant people. And the fact that I couldn't figure out if Dwarfs were literally made out of rock or not.

In fact, I'm still not completely sure if dwarfs are literally made of rock or not.

But the ducks? Never seemed weird or silly to me. When I first started pitching Glorantha to my adult children, all of them pretty much said the same thing

"Wait, what? Ducks? we can be ducks?! I WANT TO BE A DUCK!"

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