Not until the nineteenth century did the West devise any new plots, but in 1817 Mary Shelley created science fiction with Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe created detective fiction with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Other Influences Lewis’s first academic book, The Allegory of Love. This new kind of story was the subject of C. Then in the eleventh century, the troubadours of France invited the love story. Over fifteen hundred years would pass before a new kind of story plot appeared in the West. In the centuries after Homer, the Greeks developed drama which took two forms: tragedy and comedy. Virtually every culture has told the adventure story. Homer’s Iliad is an adventure story, and so is Beowulf.

It extolls the abilities and temperament needed for survival in a primitive society. The adventure story celebrates courage and skill in combat. The oldest plot is the adventure story which was told around the fires at night with the birth of language. Lewis.Īs much as the people of the world love stories, the cultures of the world have developed few basic plots. Volume 2 in a biographical trilogy covering the life of C. Tracing his transformation from a young atheist studying at Oxford to an avowed Christian apologist defending the faith, Harry Lee Poe brings to life one of the most prolific Christian voices of the 20th century. The hobbit stories of Tolkien represent significant departures from the kind of mythological and legendary stories that Tolkien had been writing for The Silmarillion. Money was always an issue, so Tolkien began to write. The Hobbit had met with some financial success for the firm of Allen & Unwin, but more to the point, Tolkien had reaped a modest financial reward from his children’s story. Tolkien embarked on writing The Lord of the Rings in response to a prompting from Stanley Unwin, the publisher of The Hobbit, that he should write another hobbit book. When he died, he left a trove of disordered manuscripts that his son, Christopher Tolkien, devoted his life to editing into a publishable form. Tolkien never quite finished his work on this mythology which he called The Simarillion. That mythology is a collection of tales that spans thousands of years from the creation of his imagined world down through several ages. The Lord of the Rings was a sidetrack from Tolkien’s real writing project, the mythology of his created world of Middle-earth. On this second matter, Tolkien may not have been entirely honest with himself, or perhaps, he may simply not have been very self-aware. He was equally insistent that Lewis had no influence on the actual content of The Lord of the Rings. Lewis played a huge role in encouraging him to finish writing The Lord of the Rings.

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