CS Lewis had definite sadistic tendencies evident in That Hideous Strength and the lesbian protagonist within. He was a bit too much of a moralist for my tastes. He turned atheist after reading Lucretius, and he came back to Christianity in a very literal and cold way, I think.
That said, being brought up on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe hardwired Christianity in me. But, even as a child, I shivered—in semi-delight—at the sadistic elements in that. He quite likes to humiliate and expose his characters.
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Tolkien is the superior writer of the pair, because he reached into the deepest mythologies available and was a more comprehensive world builder. As a Catholic, he was as sumptuous as Lewis was austere.
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