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Magic [Systems?] in Fantasy Literature [The Pugcast]

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

A recent post at Screen Rant complained that C.S. Lewis never explained Narnia’s magic system. This is an example of completely missing the point, as myth and legend never explain magic, though in recent fantasy lit, detailed out magic systems are almost an essential. For his part, Tolkien believed that fantasy had to make rational sense for it to work. The guys get go from these observations into a wide-ranging discussion of magic in fantasy, including Chris talking about the logic of magic in his fantasy series. They also get into a difference between the “magic” of the Elves and the magic of the Enemy in Middle Earth in light of Tokien’s essay “On Faerie Stories.”

 

Screenrant Article: https://screenrant.com/narnia-questions-greta-gerwig-netflix-reboot-answer/

 

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to Theology Pugcast. Anyway, it's great to have you here. Christmas is behind us,

0:08.7

and we're looking forward to the new year, 2025. Man, that is so weird to say that. I mean, when I was a kid,

0:17.2

you know, I remember 2001 of Space Odyssey and all the stuff I associated with the year 2001

0:23.0

and that came and went. We didn't have anything that they had in 2001 Space Odyssey. One of those

0:28.8

things, thankfully, was there's no hell 9,000 back then, although maybe we're going to get that

0:35.6

in the year 2025 based on all the stuff I'm reading.

0:39.4

Anyway, enough of that.

0:40.7

I'm just sort of like kind of in a sort of a rabbit hole mentally.

0:46.5

But let me come out, poke my head out and say, hello.

0:49.9

I'm C.R. Wiley.

0:51.0

I'm a pastor.

0:52.0

I serve at Church in the Pacific Northwest.

0:54.0

I write stuff. My most

0:55.5

recent book is in the House of Tom Bommodil. And I've got a short story that just came out

1:01.6

not too long ago with Canon Plus on the Reverend Ricky Jayhue Clay household Hellspon extractor.

1:09.6

And anyway, I've had fun with that. But I'm also a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine.

1:16.8

Enough about me. Tom, how about you? I'm Tom Price. I teach theology, Christian ethics at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and few other places, do some writing and speaking, and, again, a lot of other things.

1:33.4

I'm a dad.

1:35.7

So this is a sudden show we're recording today, and so Tom was a little tired.

1:40.9

That's right.

1:42.2

Anyway, it's not been that many, but we did another show earlier anyway uh glen it's

1:47.3

your your show today uh what are we talking about well um my intro as usual i am glen sunshine

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