Tolkien = Ransom?

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[Shasta]

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Yes, but did Lewis ever actually say that that was what he intended?

[Shasta]

[Leslie]

According to Colin Duriez, author of Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, Tolkien wrote the following to his son Christopher:

"As a philologist I may have some part in Ransom, and recognize some of my opinions Lewisified in him. "

Also according to Duriez, Ransom's first name Elwin means "elf-friend".

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[Cymru]

[carol]

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[alecto]

I have been reading through some old posts and found this thread. I have not noticed the significance of Ransom's first name. Tolkien and Lewis, at least once upon a time, were supposed to have had a kind of challenge: one was to write a space travel story, the other a time travel story. The Space Trilogy was published, but The Lost Road only made it to several dozen pages which were published in 1987 in a compilation called The Lost Road and Other Writings. The main character of that story, the analog of Ransom's, is also called Elf-Friend, though he uses the latinized version, Alboin, as well as Aelfwine, which is the "proper" ancestor of Elwin. The Elves call him Elendil, which is also the name of the Prince of Numenor that Alboin meets on his journeys. Numenor appears also in That Hideous Strength, credited to Tolkien. Something is definitely afoot in spacetime.

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