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C.S. Lewis’s Faerie Lecture, and a Prince Edward Island Folktale - A Pilgrim in Narnia

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C.S. Lewis gave a lecture on Faeries at the oldest and (arguably) most prestigious university in the English world. He did this lecture often, and he did it with a straight face. It is, of course, perfectly normal for universities to have programs in folklore now. But when Lewis was an Oxford Don, from the mid-1920s to mid-1950s, few took Faerie seriously in their curriculum. Part of this may be the close nature of folklore–Lewis references people he knew who had had encounters with Faeries–though it may also have been because of the project of Fairyland Disneyfication was already well begun. Lewis, however, was a lover the Little People, from Martianus Capella to George MacDonald, and was especially indebted to Spenser’s Faerie Queene. The Narniad and, to a lesser extent, That Hideous Strength, are Faerie Tales and were influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, which also drew from the same traditions. For Tolkien and Lewis, Faerie was a serious topic of discussion. The Discarded Ima

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