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A 15 page research paper that contrasts and compares C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe with J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The writer argues that while these books are ostensibly children's books, on a deeper level, they reflect the reality of the adult world -- the real world. While the context of the books are fantasy, the episodes in the narratives parallel those of everyday life, psychologically, imaginatively, and materially. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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became friends while they both worked on the English faculty at Oxfords Magdalen College (Olsen 26). Both Lewis and Tolkien created fanciful worlds, populated by incredible creatures. Lewis Narnia
has talking animals, dryads, griffins and nymphs. Tolkiens Middle Earth is inhabited by orcs, trolls, dwarfs and, of course, hobbits. Yet, within the context of these imagined worlds, both authors
create a literary environment that offers insight into the reality of the reader. While Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Tolkiens The Hobbit are ostensibly childrens
books, on a deeper level, they reflect the reality of the adult world -- the real world. While the context of the books are fantasy, the episodes in the narratives
parallel those of everyday life, psychologically, imaginatively, and materially. In other words, even though these are both childrens books, in each narrative bad things do occur, dangers are faced,
obstacles are overcome and the characters in each book experience growth. As Michael Gross points out about the work of C.S. Lewis, his work is "rooted in straightforward common sense
that is based on everyday experience" (28). Much the same thing can be said for Tolkien, as the following discussion will demonstrate. The Hobbit In a hold
in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with
nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort (Tolkien 15). This long, rather rambling, sentence begins one of
the most interesting and unusual tales in heroic literature. It is said that Tolkien wrote scribbled this sentence one day on a napkin, but this origin has the ring of
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