ha, sorry for the misspelling. it was an honest typo. in future i will take better care as now i see it can become quite an issue!
well, it actually is
malacandra who speaks to ransom on perelandra, not
maleldil at that point
BeeLayne, i agree with you most of all i think. really, there is no representation good enough or entertaining enough to be superior to just reading the books. when i watch a movie i am entertained. when i read the books, i am there, experiencing it all for myself. honestly, i'm sorry for being so late in the narnia movie nonsense. when the movie was getting ready to be released, i came here and searched the forums to find out what people were saying about it, and i didn't have much luck (i'm sure i just didn't look in the right places) and what i read on other fan sites was all excitement and delight. so i'm a little behind
i really was just interested in hearing what people thought about it. haha, now i am satisfied.
i'm still not sure though if lewis and especially tolkien meant to leave the reader with the freedom to think what they want to about the characters. i look at all of the authors that i love the most, and they all seem to have a common thread. they wrote
intentionally. some things that the director & actors (of the new film) said about how lewis never intended us to think this, or that, & that he left it all up to us to determine (i could find the quotes if necessary) are in direct contradiction to some of the things lewis said in his letters & essays. specifically, in one of his "letters to children". i promise that i am not trying to profess this as a solid opinion of truth, etc. it's just something i've been thinking a lot about. tolkien himself had very strict things that he was trying to convey in his work, and i think he would be quick to tell us if we got something wrong, or if we were missing a bigger point... but that's only what i gather from reading (again...) his letters & essays. i read the narnia books... and the lord of the rings, and the silmarillion for pleasure (extreme pleasure, & joy) so i don't ever want to be one of those people who lose the joy of reading because they are too concerned with what things mean. but now that i have read them many, many times, as well as most of lewis' other books, and tolkien's unifished tales, and lost tales and the histories of middle earth, etc. etc. etc. i think it has become difficult for me to disassociate what i am reading & thinking & feeling from the author, & what he writes about this subject in "perelandra", or "a grief observed" (i know, you get the idea) or what he, perhaps intended me to think & feel.
again. i am not trying to argue a point. it's just something that i always seem to consider when the point is made about all of our own "interpretations" and how they are right in their own way. anyway... the comments made by the director and... tilda swinton? i think
were what really put me off initially when the movie was first released.
why am i so afraid to push the submit button? newbie nerves, i suppose.