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Abstract
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people engaged with others on social media in ways that they had not before. During this time, many new interpretive communities arose. In one of these conversations, the way that fans interpreted Tolkien’s description of the physical characteristics of the Valar resonated with a passage in C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra (the second book of his Space Trilogy) where the narrator describes the physical manifestation of Perelandra and Malacandra. In this paper I perform a close read of the two passages, to examine the textual meaning, to see what interpretive room there is in each, and also to contrast any elements of the texts that do not seem to align with one another.
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Shelton, Luke
(2024)
"Towards an Ethos of Discussing In-Corporeal Gender in Fantasy Literature: Part I—A 'Feminine' Eldil and a 'Masculine' Vala,"
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings: Vol. 2024:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythpro/vol2024/iss1/7
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