At a special event here in New York City last night, author Philip Pullman answered a series of questions about his bestselling “His Dark Materials” fantasy trilogy, which will see its first installment — “Golden Compass” — adapted to theaters on December 7th. Read our full round-up of Pullman’s chat here, and in the below clip, watch Pullman describe how he finds the “Lord of the Rings” books trivial in their lack of asking big questions and doesn’t find C.S. Lewis’ answers to the big questions in the “Narnia” books satisfying.