Abstract
Lewis and Tolkien were apologists for magic in an age where the lore of wood and stone had all but been crushed between two opposing forces: secular technologies that seek to conquer nature and force it to serve the whims of man, and Christian churches that see in magic only the evil sorcery of Simon Magus and the Witch of Endor. In The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings, modern readers are presented with a different incantation: a magic that shatters the anti-humanistic side of technology while affirming the deep and abiding creativity of the Triune God.
Recommended Citation
Markos, Louis
(2009)
"The Lore of Wood and Stone: Magic in the Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings,"
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal: Vol. 3
:
Iss.
1
, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/1940-5537.1028
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cslewisjournal/vol3/iss1/5