The Whys and Wherefores

Of why I have never read Narnia, Twilight, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, or Harry Potter.

A little while ago on Scribblings I mentioned that I don't read Narnia and LOTR and I got a few shocked comments. I was at a history competition last week and was discussing books with someone I met there and when LOTR came up I had to say that I knew nothing about it. Not surprisingly this got a shocked response. Then Petie posted her vlog about Snow White and the Huntsman and that got me thinking about stating opinions and telling others about what you believe.


So here I am this is my second opinion post on Scribblings and my first on Rustlings and I'm beginning to think I should do this more often.    

First of all lets deal with Twilight and Harry potter. I am a christian and I believe that witchcraft and vampires and other things of evil to be off limits. The Bible says no so I won't read books about them. End of story.

LOTR and Narnia however are a different matter.  You see most people I know have read them. Most christian girls my age have read them. Most bloggers I know are looking forward to the Hobbit movie. So as you might guess I'm a little nervous that I might tread on some toes, but I am just going to be as considerate and thoughtful as I can and we'll see how it goes.

Both have magic in them. I believe that magic is not honoring to the Lord. But wait, isn't Narnia an allegory of the gospel or something?

I don't know I haven't read it. But even if it is does that make it right? The book is about another world one which God did not create and it uses a created being {a lion} to picture God. I'm sorry but to me that sounds to me a bit like violating the second commandment. Now I'm not saying that the people who read Narnia are bowing down and worshiping an idol or that C.S. Lewis was making one. What I'm saying is that it seems wrong to picture God as an animal.

Also the Bible says "what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?" now this passage is about being yoked with unbelievers but it really applies to everything. What business does an allegory about Christ have being mixed up with witches? 

So I'll get off my soap box now. But that's why I don't read Narnia & Co.

P.S I am not saying however that every little fairy tale is evil, just questioning whether Christians should be reading stuff about witches and dark magic. Oh go and watch Petie's vlog. She's talking about some of the same stuff only different.      

It's Brillig!

According to Humpty Humpty, Brillig is teatime: about four in the afternoon. I don't have teatime. And his humptyness did say that words should mean what you want them to mean. So for me brillig is blogging time. The time when I sit down and tell my bloggy friends whats going on with me.

So welcome to the very first Brillig on this blog, A new adventure a new start.

I love to write{as those of you who read my other blog know}but I also love to read. And I love to learn. I like classic books and when I joined the classics club I wanted to have a place to record my progress. So I created this blog.

Here I will review the books I read and just gush about them the way period Drama bloggers gush about their favorite movies. I like subjective reviews so my reviews will all be subjective. I will say exactly what I think. I like {and invite} those little bloggy battles and discussions that are so much fun. So if your opinion is different than mine please comment and say so! We can discuss it and have fun with it.

My posts will be divided into basically three sections.  Book Reviews {which we have already talked about} Opinion Posts{which I will talk about in a minute} and Participation Posts{which I will talk about in two minutes}.

I am an opinionated person. I like expressing those opinions. Some of those opinions are about books. Like my thoughts on kindles{I'll be nice I promise}, or my thoughts on fantasy, or what I think of different genres.

So the opinion posts will be about books and reading but not book reviews.

A Participation Post is when I ask a question about reading or a type of book or something and I want to here you thoughts about it. I won't do that until we all get to know each other better though. It could also be a read along. I always thought those were cool.

So now this Brillig is over I bid you adieu and go off to read El Dorado!