Yikes. I'm sensing some hostility here. I reread the books recently (last year maybe) and admit they didn't really work for me, but this is a lot stronger than what I felt.
I was totally expecting to read your comment and chastise you for your whole "the book denied the agency of the lead characters and so I don't like it" thing. That's there, and I still think you need to get over it, but there's much else here as well.
I'm now curious about the timing of the writing of this and The Two Towers. Lewis and Tolkien regularly discussed story ideas with each other.
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I was totally expecting to read your comment and chastise you for your whole "the book denied the agency of the lead characters and so I don't like it" thing. That's there, and I still think you need to get over it, but there's much else here as well.
I'm now curious about the timing of the writing of this and The Two Towers. Lewis and Tolkien regularly discussed story ideas with each other.