No he wasn't. Although they were of roughly similar ages Lewis and Tolkien were writing 20 years and another war later than Ransome.
In terms of the internal date of the books the earlier date is needed to keep the ages of the protagonists in the right range. I have always assumed that Bob Blackett died in the Great War and that only Nancy remembers her father.
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Date: 2008-09-07 09:14 pm (UTC)No he wasn't. Although they were of roughly similar ages Lewis and Tolkien were writing 20 years and another war later than Ransome.
In terms of the internal date of the books the earlier date is needed to keep the ages of the protagonists in the right range. I have always assumed that Bob Blackett died in the Great War and that only Nancy remembers her father.