In which I prove I am a teenage girl

I saw the new Narnia yesterday with Brandlyn, and it ROCKED. I loved the movie. I, being the grand Tolkien scholar(-ish) that I am, I know that Tolkien and Lewis were best buds. Practically BFFs. They (like totally) sat in pubs and had drinks with a few of their mates and they all talked about these books they were writing and, I imagine, they compared their worlds, characters, plots, etc. Both Tolkien and Lewis were Catholics, and it certainly shows in their books. (Besides the fact that Lewis wrote many essays and books about Catholicism.) Yesterday, I kept whispering to Brandlyn the common themes I kept on seeing between Narnia and Middle Earth, and at one point she turned to me and was like, "Yes, Stefanie. Watch the movie." For the record, one of the strongest similarities between Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings were the themes of industry. I know that Tolkien was not a fan of industrialization, though he was kind of on the tail end of it (LotR was first published in the 50's I believe...) (I just checked. It was 54-55. I totally rock.) and industrialization was well on its way to creating global warming and eating a hole in our ozone. In any case, remember the scene in The Two Towers where the Trees destroy Isengard? If you don't, the essence of the scene is that Merry and Pippin convince the Ents (trees) to march to Isengard, where Saruman of Many Colors was chopping down the forests to fuel the furnaces to create weapons for his Uruk-Hai army. The Ents smash and flood the whole area and Nature conquers Industry. (Yaaaay).

(Have I lost you?)

Well, comparison to Narnia. In this movie, the four Pevensie children (Plus Caspian) witness the forests being destroyed to create weapons (Huh. De ja vous?) and then in the great battle that follows (much, much later in the movie) Aslan wakes up the forests, who promply destroy the enemy (Say it with me, nature conquers industry.)

So beyond my obviously Great Intellectual Mind in the ability to know pointless and arbitrary facts about authors and books, I also happen to be a teenager. And the actors who play Prince Caspian and Peter Pevensie are absolutely dreamy.

I will freely admit under no duress that Brandlyn and I absolutely drooled over these two boys the entire movie. We might have done a little bit of sighing, too.

(First one is Prince Caspian, played by Ben Barnes, and the other is Peter Pevensie, played by William Moseley.)