The Jane Child One Hit Wonder Room

Well, It is an exciting week for me, and many others...as the long anticipated "Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" opens nationwide in theaters everywhere! It got me to thinking about how much I had enjoyed the book as a child, and how I became interested about learning more about the author once I heard the book was being made into a Disney special presentation. C.S. Lewis was noted equally for his literary scholarship and for his intellectual and witty expositions of Christian tenets, according to his biography entry in the Yahoo! search engine. Although I'm not interested in, nor understand his revolutionary writings regarding the literary evolution of romantic love during the Middle Ages; "The Screwtape Letters (1942, rev. ed. 1961), which, according to the entry, is an ironic treatment of the theme of salvation; nor do I understand "a history of English Literature in the Sixteenth Century" (1954), as I rarely have opened any "highbrow" lit since High School....I find myself fascinated by his relationship with the author of the "Lord of the Rings" series, J.R.R. Tolkien, and with his "conversion" after abandoning his christian faith around 1913 and then re-embracing parts of Irish Catholisicm and his protestant upbringing in the late 20's/early 30's by joining Tolkien as a member of the Church of England. He then became infamous for writing in defense of Christianity before his death on the very same day as the assassination of American President, John F. Kennedy. Bringing the question posed by many that oppose the writings of the bible as to if they were allegory, or represented literal comparisons, such as Aslan to the lord and the witch to the devil...Lewis apparantly maintained that he actually wrote the novels when he wondered what it would be like if Jesus Christ was incarnated on another world or planet to save the souls of those inhabitants.