Playing hide-and-seek, Lucy, the youngest, ventures into a wardrobe that opens directly onto a snowy landscape where before long Mr. In the opening scenes of 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,' two brothers and two sisters from the Pevensie family are evacuated from London and sent to live in a vast country house where they will be safe from the nightly Nazi air raids.
Tolkien's universe was in unspecified Middle Earth, but Lewis' really was next door. cummings:: 'Listen: there's a hell/of a good universe next door let's go.' When you’ve created your own universe, how do you feel when, in the words of a poem by e. Tolkien, who wrote the Ring trilogy, were friends who taught at Oxford at the same time, were pipe-smokers, drank in the same pub, took Christianity seriously, but although Lewis loved Tolkein’s universe, the affection was not returned.
Lewis, who wrote the Narnia books, and J.R.R.