Into the Wardrobe

Janet wrote: "I've heard it said, and I think pretty reliably, although I can't remember where at the moment, that Ransom is based on Tolkien, the philologist."

You're right of course, Janet! I read that too. But mark that I say "the Ransom of THS". He seem to undergo quite a development between the first two books to the third. A commanding figure reclining on a couch, with an inherent authority that even Merlin the magician acknowledges. The inhabitants in the house refer to him as the "master", and Jane Studdock's world is shattered at the sight of him.

This is how Lewis described Williams: "He is an ugly man with rather a cockney vioce. But no one ever thinks of this for 5 minutes after he has begun speaking. His face becomes almost angelic. Both in public and in private he is of nearly all the men I have met, the one whose address most overflows with love. It is simply irresistable. [...] A most wonderful performance and it impressed his audience, specially the young women, very much." (Letters of C.S. Lewis; The Inklings)

In some other instance also Lewis talks about William's commanding presence. Lewis thought seems to have been heavily influenced by Williams during the war years, when Williams was living in Oxford, and during which time Lewis wrote THS.

I'm anxious to hear other views.

I love that song, Stanley!

Here is a rambling inspired my post before on the authorship of DT:

Sorry about my blooper!
I'm no conspiracy trooper
And to me the book is super
Even if it was written by Hooper