SHADES OF GREY

here i am again and just as i had anticipated my wife and i are the only ones reading my blog. i was working on "the big three" and shall continue to do so...but, i want to give a little more thought to the subject before my next post about it. this post shall deal with some interesting news i heard from a friend. we got onto the subject of j.k. rowlings (author of the harry potter series) and my friend made the comment that she had profeesed Christianity (that is that she was a believer in Jesus Christ) in an interview (possibly on 60 minutes). i had assumed that my friend was joking but later that evening he assured me thst he had seen it on t.v.. this definitely gave me some "food for thought". i have done some unintentional research on j.k. rowlings when i began researching tolkien (you know j.r.r. tolkien of "the hobbit" and "the lord of the rings" fame). when the movies came out i began wondering (again) why some Christians view harry as morally bad/evil literature but l.o.t.r. (and the chronicles of narnia) as morally good literature. i had to ask myself if there really was a difference (YES THERE IS DEFINITELY). in order to find the answer i have begun doing research on tolkien and lewis. it turns out that researching c.s lewis and his chronicles series was quite easy. lewis, after all, was an atheist who became a believing Christian and because of his faith he wrote chronicles. tolkien however, is requiring a little more study. first of all tolkien did not necessarily write his series because of his faith but, you can see his faith, his moral and ethical belief system plainly reflected in his works. to say that l.o.t.r. is a Christian work in the same sense as chronicles is wrong. lewis put in intentional one to one correlations in the chronicles (aslan=Jesus, aslan's sacrifice and death=Jesus' sacrifice and death, etc.) but not so with tolkien's l.o.t.r. the l.o.t.r. series does not have the direct one to one correlations but it does strongly reflect Christian values (the values of the author)....once again i must stop due to time constraints and the necessity of sleep...but i shall return, i am enjoying seeing these thoughts processed, i.e. putting them down on paper is enjoyable and quite clarifying for me.