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Reading the silmarillion and the magicians nephew at the same time is so fucking funny. Like the entirety of magicians nephew is like “so anyway this cool thing happened and I’d tell you about it but anyway check out this lion”. Tolkien is like “shut the fuck up and listen to 7 thousand geographical details and while I’m on this tangent let’s go through the entire lineage of every single person I can think of, what were we talking about”.

When narnia is being built it takes like 20 seconds for all the stars and planets to show up and Tolkien specifies like several thousand years before the moon shows up and it takes like a hundred pages before they start counting DAYS. Lewis is like see Johnald???? You can do worldbuilding in less than a page!

My favorite comparison my fiance has noted is that the cabbies horse, strawberry, gets as much character description, if not MORE, than Digory’s uncle. Shadowfax is the most specialest horse in middle earth. If we know one thing about Tolkien and Lewis it’s that they love a good horsey.