Did the Walden Trilogy ever refer to the Emperor? I can't recall any mention of him.
coracle wrote:That last point is interesting; in the Bible God forbids his people to make images of him, but artists post-Renaissance chose to depict him. This is a whole new subject, and I am not qualified to talk about Art History. But if God (who is not physical) was made man only in Jesus Christ, would it not be wrong to present the Emperor as a human, a lion, or any other creature?
The creator is always distinct from Creation, in both the Old and New Testaments. To this day practising Jewish people don't like images of creatures as decorations.
That's a really good point. Even aside from the theological tensions, I think there's definitely an argument to be made that any visual depiction could detract from the mystery. That said, you could still indirectly reference the Emperor in art, or obscure the form of the Emperor in some way. When doing a little googling on the subject, I found that the Hand of God appears in Jewish art as early as the third century; I can imagine a depiction of a hand (or golden paw) holding the scepter that Jadis references in LWW.