Adaptations of Faith-filled Authors

There are interesting discussions at Ut Unum Sint and Against the Grain about how current Hollywood films based on famous Christian writers reflect the faith of their authors (or not):

• The Lord of the Rings – based on the work of diehard Catholic J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Chronicles of Narnia – Christian allegories for children by C.S. Lewis (whom Tolkien helped convert to Christianity)

(The springboard for the above discussion is a new book called Peter Jackson in Perspective: the Power Behind Cinema’s The Lord of the Rings – A Look at Hollywood’s Take on Tolkien’s Epic Tale by Greg Wright, a contributing editor at at HollywoodJesus.com)