In That Hideous Strength Ransom, with his royal charisma and casual acceptance of the supernatural, appears more like Charles Williams (or some of the heroes in Williams' books). Tolkien, since Lewis is presented as novelizing Ransom's reminiscences in the epilogue of Out of the Silent Planet and is a character-narrator in the frame tale for Perelandra. Lewis, however, apparently intended for Ransom to be partially patterned after his friend and fellow Oxford professor J. Ransom appears very similar to Lewis himself: a university professor, expert in languages and medieval literature, unmarried (Lewis did not marry until his fifties), wounded in World War I and with no living relatives except for one sibling. Many of the names in the trilogy reflect the influence of Lewis' friend J.R.R. Weston is reminiscent of Flash Gordon being forced into Dr. Like most of Lewis's mature writing, they contain much discussion of contemporary rights and wrongs, similar in outlook to Madeleine L'Engle's Kairos series. The books are not especially concerned with technological speculation, and in many ways read like fantasy adventures combined with themes of biblical and classical mythology. The other main literary influence was David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus ( 1920). Wells's First Men in the Moon the best of the sort I have read. I like the whole interplanetary ideas as a mythology and simply wished to conquer for my own point of view what has always hitherto been used by the opposite side. Haldane's Possible Worlds both of which seemed to take the idea of such travel seriously and to have the desperately immoral outlook which I try to pillory in Weston. What immediately spurred me to write was Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and an essay in J.B.S.
Lewis stated in a letter to Roger Lancelyn Green:
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