Lewis is good. I enjoyed his work. But I think Tolkien was a much better writer.
Today parallels The Last Battle. Praise the Lord, King Jesus is coming!
I have always wondered about Lewis’ treatment of the kids becoming adults. Susan gets dumped on because she has an interest in the opposite sex whereas the other kids are ostensibly celibate. Susan has a normal ness that more folks relate to, but missed the train to paradise because she wanted a normal life in the real world. With husband and children.
Agreed.
However, the popularity of the men is due to their actual story telling abilities, without the sex and agenda pushing.
If you read Tolkien's "Farmer Giles of Ham," for example, I think you'll see that it is more in Lewis' style - more jocular, gently satirical, but with truth and good at the bottom of it. And Lewis' "Til We Have Faces" is a more serious work, and written in a more elevated style that most of us associate more with Tolkien and Middle Earth.
Of course their styles are different, but I like them both.