Very nice dungeonmaster's game room...
http://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8714
Edit: Why There is No Jewish Narnia. I found this double book review to be pretty interesting. It was especially good as he saw the weaknesses and the strength of one of the books, The Magicians, which is something of a mockery of Narnia. I would expect many reviews to only see the strengths, and see the weakness as either strength or not see it. And other fewer reviews vice versa.
It gave an overview of the field of Jewish fantasy, which according to the writer is at best, immature.
http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/publications/detail/why-there-is-no-jewish-narnia
That's interesting.
I've noticed that so much of the really good fantasy fiction is dominated by Christian writers--C. S. Lewis (Narnia, Anglican), Madeleine l'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time, Episcopalian, I believe), J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter, another Anglican), Elizabeth Moon (Deed of Paksenarrion, Episcopalian), J. R. R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings, Roman Catholic), Lewis Carroll (the Alice stories, Anglican priest), George MacDonald (The Princess and books, Presbyterian minister, I think), and we can probably include Milton, Goethe, Dante, and several others in the mix. I suspect part of it is the inherent supernaturalism and positive optimism of Christian faith. Someone I know has a quote in his sig file from G. K. Chesterton to the effect that all children know that dragons are real, and the importance of fairy tales is that they tell us dragons can be defeated. I had a link for many years to an online essay which asserted that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was a frolicking story of good fun largely because of the influence Christianity had on early English folk tales. On some level, Christianity asserts that reality itself is a playful fantasy, and Christian fantasy authors are the only ones who are really showing reality as it is. C. S. Lewis wrote a New York Times essay (still available to subscribers to their site) under a title to the effect that sometimes fantasy is the only medium in which you can tell the story that must be told. It seems to be a particularly Christian medium overall.
I do not by this wish to minimize the significance of other fantasy authors; I just note that they contribute to a field dominated by Christian influence, and even in their pagan fantasy facets they often reflect these Christian concepts. Yet every time I find truly great fantasy, it always seems to trace to a Christian author.
--M. J. Young