Very happy to hear it on all levels, my friend.

Narnia and Redwall = a foundation of pure wholesomeness - a love for all things good, true, and beautiful - that can stand up to the storms of the post-Christian "world," from what I've experienced and observed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5173910&forum_id=2...id.#45018475)

For example, I probably wouldn't have understood anything by Tolkien if I read it as a teenager (there's a good chance I would have accidentally taken the hippie interpretations seriously, LJL), so I'm glad that life delayed my introduction to his books until my 20s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5173910&forum_id=2...id.#45018508)

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise.”

or Lewis's:

"The ideal embodied in Launcelot is "escapism" in a sense never dreamed of by those who use that word; Chivalry offers the only possible escape from a world divided between wolves who do not understand, and sheep who cannot defend, the things which make life desirable..."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5173910&forum_id=2...id.#45018517)