by Sven » May 29th, 2006, 10:20 am
No single person was the inspiration. Jill Flewett apparently was most of the inspiration for the personality, Lucy Barfield supplied the name and some of the personality.
The four Pensivies were an amalgamation of all the children Jack Lewis ever met (especially the evacuees during the war) with a large dose of Edith Nesbit's fictional children stirred in.
Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.