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* Radagast might not have been personally corrupt; he might just have been very committed to method acting the role of a homeless vagrant whose unstable ramblings confuse the already-confused people of N.I.C.E. into foolishness. Or one might imagine him as having become a figure like the Discworld's Lu Tze, whose genuine wisdom, compassion, and courage don't stop him from being pragmatic about the value of the simple things in life like warm undergarments and a chance to catch some sleep.
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** According to Lewis's non-fiction works, we are all mentally and spiritually linked to God/Maleldil at all times, deriving our very power of thought and existence from him. That kind of connection between Creator and Creature is completely natural. Merlin, on the other hand, was altered to allow a fellow Creature entry to his soul, something which is far more violent and far less natural.
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** According to Lewis's beliefs as expounded in his non-fiction works, we are all mentally and spiritually linked to God/Maleldil at all times, deriving our very power of thought and existence from him. That kind of connection between Creator and Creature is completely natural. Merlin, on the other hand, was altered to allow a fellow Creature entry to his soul, something which is far more violent and far less natural.
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** According to Lewis's non-fiction works, we are all mentally and spiritually linked to God/Maleldil at all times, deriving our very power of thought and existence from him. That kind of connection between Creator and Creature is completely natural. Merlin, on the other hand, was altered to allow a fellow Creature entry to his soul, something which is far more violent and far less natural.
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Although Ransom doesn't actually meet [[{{God}} Maleldil]] ''face to face'', the two ''do'' have a mental chat; which starts out like a series of sudden inspirations, goes over a definite feeling of presence into something more like a religious experience, and finally ends in something almost like a telephone conversation (with ultimately even the occasional image thrown in) as the "connection" gradually gets better and better.\\
''Why'' does the connection get so much better over time, until it ends up almost as strong as Tinidril's psychic link to Maleldil? A possible explanation is that during that chat, the latter is slowly and carefully crafting just such a permanent link into ''Ransom's'' mind, too - and the "conversation reception" gets ever better as that new link gets more and more useable.\\
''Why'' does the connection get so much better over time, until it ends up almost as strong as Tinidril's psychic link to Maleldil? A possible explanation is that during that chat, the latter is slowly and carefully crafting just such a permanent link into ''Ransom's'' mind, too - and the "conversation reception" gets ever better as that new link gets more and more useable.\\
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* Although Ransom doesn't actually meet [[{{God}} Maleldil]] ''face to face'', the two ''do'' have a mental chat; which starts out like a series of sudden inspirations, goes over a definite feeling of presence into something more like a religious experience, and finally ends in something almost like a telephone conversation (with ultimately even the occasional image thrown in) as the "connection" gradually gets better and better.\\
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->Maleldil was not absent. That sense – so very welcome yet never welcomed without the overcoming of a certain resistance – that sense of the Presence which he had once or twice before experienced on Perelandra, returned to him. The darkness was packed quite full. It seemed to press upon his trunk so that he could hardly use his lungs: it seemed to close in on his skull like a crown of intolerable weight so that for a space he could hardly think.
* ''Why'' does the connection get so much better over time, until it ends up almost as strong as Tinidril's psychic link to Maleldil? A possible explanation is that during that chat, the latter is slowly and carefully crafting just such a permanent link into ''Ransom's'' mind, too - and the "conversation reception" gets ever better as that new link gets more and more useable.\\
->Maleldil was not absent. That sense – so very welcome yet never welcomed without the overcoming of a certain resistance – that sense of the Presence which he had once or twice before experienced on Perelandra, returned to him. The darkness was packed quite full. It seemed to press upon his trunk so that he could hardly use his lungs: it seemed to close in on his skull like a crown of intolerable weight so that for a space he could hardly think.
* ''Why'' does the connection get so much better over time, until it ends up almost as strong as Tinidril's psychic link to Maleldil? A possible explanation is that during that chat, the latter is slowly and carefully crafting just such a permanent link into ''Ransom's'' mind, too - and the "conversation reception" gets ever better as that new link gets more and more useable.\\
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* If there ''is'' such a permanent link, then that of course still quietly exists for the rest of the trilogy.
* There's a difference between a conversation and channeling of cosmic powers, so perhaps Ransom was opened just a little - but what about Jane, who has a mystical experience, too?
* There's a difference between a conversation and channeling of cosmic powers, so perhaps Ransom was opened just a little - but what about Jane, who has a mystical experience, too?
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[[WMG:Ransom's heel wound]]
The only way Ransom's heel would have healed up would have been if he'd asked Maleldil Himself to patch him up. Which Ransom didn't - despite the fact that he probably could have had another chat at any time while on Perelandra (Ransom is the one who starts their first chat, remember, asking Maleldil where He is).\\
And as another book says: "He'd know without asking, but He likes to be asked"...
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** Uh, the Screwtape Letters ends with [[spoiler: the patient dying, apparently from a bomb blast]].
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** Uh, the Screwtape Letters ''Screwtape Letters'' ends with [[spoiler: the patient dying, apparently from a bomb blast]].
** Also, the Patient's fiance is ''nothing'' like Jane.
** Also, the Patient's fiance is ''nothing'' like Jane.
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* Radagast did abandon his mission, so...
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* There's a difference between a conversation and channeling of cosmic powers, so perhaps Ransom was opened just a little - but what about Jane, who has a mystical experience, too?
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In which case He is ''very'' gently easing it in as it takes most of a chapter; ''so'' tenderly gradual and intricately careful that it's completely unnoticeable almost to the point of RewatchBonus ("flying under the radar" so as not to hurt or scare Ransom, who's ''already'' quite distressed for different reasons, even further[[note]]Don't forget that the Oyeressu's similar "opening up" in the third book outright kills Merlin eventually - and having the insides of one's self re-arranged even by someone who can most certainly avoid that is [[PrimalFear inherently frightening]] in any case; so it's probably best He didn't elaborate.[[/note]]) - but this ''is'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} the same]] sort of psychological surgery that features as a plot point in the third book as ''the'' big deal of several centuries when it's the Oyeressu who "open up" Merlin. Here, both the story and the narration treat it as: "meh, and another thing".\\
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In which case He is ''very'' gently easing it in as it takes most of a chapter; ''so'' tenderly gradual and intricately careful that it's completely unnoticeable almost to the point of RewatchBonus ("flying under the radar" so as not to hurt or scare Ransom, who's ''already'' quite distressed for different reasons, even further[[note]]Don't forget that the Oyeressu's similar "opening up" in the third book outright kills Merlin eventually - and having the insides of one's self re-arranged even by someone who can most certainly avoid that is [[PrimalFear inherently frightening]] in any case; so it's probably best He didn't elaborate.[[/note]]) - but this ''is'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} the same]] sort of psychological surgery that features as a plot point in the third book as ''the'' big deal of several centuries when it's the Oyeressu who "open up" Merlin. Here, both the story and the narration treat it as: "meh, and another thing".\\
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* This is set in the same continuity as ''The Screwtape Letters'', and the demons[=/=]dark eldilla just have different names between books. And if so, did Ransomm's dark eldil tempter journey with him to Malacandra and Perelandra?
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* This is set in the same continuity as ''The Screwtape Letters'', and the demons[=/=]dark eldilla just have different names between books. And if so, did Ransomm's Ransom's dark eldil tempter journey with him to Malacandra and Perelandra?
** Semi-{{Jossed}} in that an early draft of the Screwtape Letters' foreword had Lewis receiving the material from Ransom, which was abandoned for the finished book.
** Semi-{{Jossed}} in that an early draft of the Screwtape Letters' foreword had Lewis receiving the material from Ransom, which was abandoned for the finished book.
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In which case He is ''very'' gently easing it in as it takes most of a chapter; ''so'' tenderly gradual and intricately careful ("flying under the radar" so as not to hurt or scare Ransom, who's ''already'' quite distressed for different reasons, even further[[note]]Don't forget that the Oyeressu's similar "opening up" in the third book outright kills Merlin eventually - and having the insides of one's self re-arranged even by someone who can most certainly avoid that is [[PrimalFear inherently frightening]] in any case; so it's probably best He didn't elaborate.[[/note]]) that it's completely unnoticeable almost to the point of RewatchBonus - but this ''is'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} the same]] sort of psychological surgery that features as a plot point in the third book as ''the'' big deal of several centuries when it's the Oyeressu who "open up" Merlin. Here, both the story and the narration treat it as: "meh, and another thing".\\
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In which case He is ''very'' gently easing it in as it takes most of a chapter; ''so'' tenderly gradual and intricately careful that it's completely unnoticeable almost to the point of RewatchBonus ("flying under the radar" so as not to hurt or scare Ransom, who's ''already'' quite distressed for different reasons, even further[[note]]Don't forget that the Oyeressu's similar "opening up" in the third book outright kills Merlin eventually - and having the insides of one's self re-arranged even by someone who can most certainly avoid that is [[PrimalFear inherently frightening]] in any case; so it's probably best He didn't elaborate.[[/note]]) that it's completely unnoticeable almost to the point of RewatchBonus - but this ''is'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} the same]] sort of psychological surgery that features as a plot point in the third book as ''the'' big deal of several centuries when it's the Oyeressu who "open up" Merlin. Here, both the story and the narration treat it as: "meh, and another thing".\\
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[[WMG: This takes place in the same universe or multiverse as Narnia]]
Narnia is just another world in this story's universe, that one could hop on a spaceship and travel to.
* Narnia occupies a different universe. Though there's nothing to say they could not somehow access the "Wood Between the Worlds".
Narnia is just another world in this story's universe, that one could hop on a spaceship and travel to.
* Narnia occupies a different universe. Though there's nothing to say they could not somehow access the "Wood Between the Worlds".
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[[WMG: This takes place in the same universe or multiverse as Narnia]]
Narniaother books by Lewis]]
*Narnia is just another world in this story's universe, that one could hop on a spaceship and travel to.
* ** Narnia occupies a different universe. Though there's nothing to say they could not somehow access the "Wood Between the Worlds".
* This is set in the same continuity as ''The Screwtape Letters'', and the demons[=/=]dark eldilla just have different names between books. And if so, did Ransomm's dark eldil tempter journey with him to Malacandra and Perelandra?
Narnia
*Narnia is just another world in this story's universe, that one could hop on a spaceship and travel to.
* This is set in the same continuity as ''The Screwtape Letters'', and the demons[=/=]dark eldilla just have different names between books. And if so, did Ransomm's dark eldil tempter journey with him to Malacandra and Perelandra?
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In which case He is ''very'' gently easing it in; ''so'' tenderly gradual and intricately careful ("flying under the radar" so as not to hurt or scare Ransom[[note]]Don't forget that the Oyeressu's similar "opening up" in the third book outright kills Merlin eventually - and having the insides of one's self re-arranged even by someone who can most certainly avoid that is [[PrimalFear inherently frightening]] in any case; so it's probably best He didn't elaborate.[[/note]]) that it's completely unnoticeable almost to the point of RewatchBonus - but this ''is'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} the same]] sort of psychological surgery that features as a plot point in the third book as ''the'' big deal of several centuries when it's the Oyeressu who "open up" Merlin. Here, both the story and the narration treat it as: "meh, and another thing".\\
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In which case He is ''very'' gently easing it in; in as it takes most of a chapter; ''so'' tenderly gradual and intricately careful ("flying under the radar" so as not to hurt or scare Ransom[[note]]Don't Ransom, who's ''already'' quite distressed for different reasons, even further[[note]]Don't forget that the Oyeressu's similar "opening up" in the third book outright kills Merlin eventually - and having the insides of one's self re-arranged even by someone who can most certainly avoid that is [[PrimalFear inherently frightening]] in any case; so it's probably best He didn't elaborate.[[/note]]) that it's completely unnoticeable almost to the point of RewatchBonus - but this ''is'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} the same]] sort of psychological surgery that features as a plot point in the third book as ''the'' big deal of several centuries when it's the Oyeressu who "open up" Merlin. Here, both the story and the narration treat it as: "meh, and another thing".\\
