Names in Till We Have Faces
Posted: July 26th, 2006, 11:23 am
I just finished a reread of TWHF, wonderful book. One thing struck me that has struck me before though, ie that the names - of people and places - are all coarse and sort of 'clunky' if that makes any sense. Orual, Redival, Glome, Ansit, Bardia, Batta. Not attractive. I presume that this is intentional as Lewis shows in the Narnia books that he is perfectly capable of thinking up beautiful and imaginative names. Why is it done though? Is it to highlight the barbarity of Glome, that even its words have no beauty?