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Forten wrote: I read something in a book, Arcadia, which puts the lowliness of Narnia quite well. It said that Lewis tried to create an entire world, but only succeded in creating a middle-class, English community with a few swords. Nearly everything seems to be about Christianity and the emphasis of conventional Christian values. No offence to all you Christians out there. Yes, I realise that Middle-earth and it's creation have a lot to do with Christianity, but I think it's less obvious than in Lewis's works because it mostly 'zooms out' on the bias of any one group and contains little religious discrimination. Tolkien created an entire history which included many different racisms. Lewis wrote a few little allegories of spiritual journeys of a specific religion. Narnia simply cannot compare to Arda if one is looking for detail and epicness. I agree, in LotR the Christian bias is less obvious.