Rather, such things are equally real and could equally happen in the here-and-now - in token of which Lewis proceeds to show in detail how they do happen to an ordinary Englishman of the middle Twentieth Century, a Cambridge don who is likable but a very fallible human being.īy the third book, Ransom has been transformed by his experiences into an awe-inspiring Prophet or Saint, who is seen from the outside. Elwin Ransom is fundamental in conveying Lewis' message - i.e., to tell his 20th Century British reader that the Bible is not about things which happened to exotic people in the Middle East thousands of years ago. He is also a major character in the third book, That Hideous Strength, in which he plays a director of an organization resisting the demonic take-over of the world, though his role is that of mentor in the book, with the main characters arguably being Mark and Jane Studdock. He is the main character in the books Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, which are told almost entirely from his point of view. He is familiar with a wide range of English literature from Anglo-Saxon epics to The Hunting of the Snark.

Ransom is a philologist at the University of Cambridge, which allows him to pick up the Old Solar language fairly rapidly.

In Perelandra, Tinidril sometimes nicknames him ' Piebald'. Elwin Ransom (born in the 1890s) is a character that appears in every book of the Space Trilogy, including The Dark Tower and Other Stories.

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