Into the Wardrobe

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?

hmm...perhaps Ransom in the space trilogy?

Ransom is indeed based to some extent on Tolkien. We had a thread going about it fairly recently.

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?

Man. This makes me giddy. :D

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?