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Lewis is to Treebeard as Tolkien is to ?

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Lewis is to Treebeard as Tolkien is to ?

Postby Herald » February 14th, 2006, 1:53 am

I was in creative writing last year and we watched a discovery channel thing about Tolkien and it said that Treebeard was based on Lewis. First of all, is that true, and does Lewis have any character based off Tolkien?
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Postby Fea~mar~vanwa~tyalieva~* » February 14th, 2006, 2:49 am

hmm...perhaps Ransom in the space trilogy?
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Postby Leslie » February 14th, 2006, 3:33 am

Ransom is indeed based to some extent on Tolkien. We had a thread going about it fairly recently.
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Postby jo » February 14th, 2006, 7:41 pm

I hadn't known that about Treebeard being based on Lewis :). Do we know for definite whether it was his personality or just his voice, then?
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Postby Tony » February 16th, 2006, 12:24 am

Man. This makes me giddy. :D
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Postby AslansGirl » February 23rd, 2006, 1:36 am

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Postby Enyalie » April 9th, 2006, 8:22 am

As far as personality vs voice goes with the inspiration for Treebeard... well I ain't saying that Treebeard's completely based on Lewis, but surely if you were writing a character, and were inspired in part by a dear friend for even just the voice, you might slip in a bit of personality as well? The voice of a friend is, to me, a kind of a... well, there's some connection there. I hear a dear friend's voice on the phone, I associate it with their presence. You know the voice of a person you care about well enough to pick it out from a crowd.
So if you associate a voice with that character, wouldn't it just naturally flow for there to be at least a bit of that person's presence along with it?

And if there wasn't some kind of association there, why would it occur to you to base a characteristic of your creation on that person in the first place?
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Postby A#minor » April 10th, 2006, 1:09 am

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