Re-reading The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe

So I started reading the first book. One passage with the kids and the beavers is a good example of the way Aslan is portrayed as someone you fear yet desire.

"Then he isn't safe?" said Lucy.
"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver. "...Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good..."
"I'm longing to see him," said Peter, "even if I do feel frightened when it comes to the point."

I like the friendly tone of Lewis' writing, too. I enjoy authors who "talk" to the reader. I suppose it could be done badly but I like it when Lewis does it.

It's interesting that these books and another series I love, The Lord of the Rings, have quite a bit of violence and killing. I just read the part about Peter using his sword for the first time, killing the wolf. In Lewis' science fiction book Perelandra Ransom, the main character, realizes that he has to kill the bad guy (can't remember his name). He fights the bad guy several times and wounds him, but slowly he realizes it will never end unless he actually kills him. I think that might be a reference to killing sin in your life, being dead to your old self.

More re-reading to go.