The Silver Chair, Part 3: Glum and Glamour

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Chris resumes his conversation with Jonathan Geltner and Eric Geddes about the first half of Lewis' fourth Narnia book, The Silver Chair.

Among other things, we discuss:

• A bit more of Chapter 4, "Parliament of Owls."
• Rilian's Predicament: Oedipal or just Literary?
• Puddleglum: Origins
  • Fred Paxford
  • John Studley's Bad Translation of Hippolytus (16th Century, OHEL)
  • Geographical
  • Literary American "Indian Guides"
• English dourness, Thorin and Company, and Dickens
• Rock Giants at Play in The Silver Chair and The Hobbit
• Jill and Eustace: Pilgrims or T-r-r-r-r-avelers?
• The Ever-r-r-r-Glamorous Art of R-Trilling
• Parallels with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Other Romances, such as:
  • Lanval, by Marie de France
  • Sir Orfeo (based on Orpheus but with Fairies--here's Tolkien's translation)
• Post-script: Arthurian Torso

Thanks to Jonathan Geltner and Eric Geddes for a great conversation. Follow Jonathan's work at his blog and his substack, and buy his book.

 

This Week's Poetry Thursday: C.S. Lewis' "The Birth of Language."

 

Next Tuesday: Joined by Joseph Weigel from the Men with Chests podcast, we'll discuss civilized giants!  And maybe we'll even get to the Underworld. Stay tuned!

 

Coming this Season:

Perelandra, more podcast crossovers (Thinklings, Men with Chests), Arthurian Torso, "The Golden Key," Inkwell Chronicles: Race to Krakatoa, Lewis and Tolkien and a whole lot more.