What is your favorite Narnia book?

Lief Erikson · 12-11-2005, 12:32 AM

The book I enjoyed most from the Chronicles was "The Horse and his Boy". What about the rest of you?

***RÃan*** · 12-11-2005, 12:44 AM

It was "Dawn Treader" for a LONG time; I could smell the sea and feel the movement of the ship ... and I loved the un-dragoning!

Horse & Boy is definitely one of my favorites - I love the part where Hwin meets Aslan.

Curubethion · 12-11-2005, 01:10 AM

HAHB was definitely a good story...but I also rather liked the feel of Caspian...just the idea of the underground Narnia was really neat.

cee2lee2 · 12-11-2005, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by RÃ*an

It was "Dawn Treader" for a LONG time; I could smell the sea and feel the movement of the ship ... and I loved the un-dragoning!.....

I loved the un-dragoning, too

, but I think The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will always be my favorite because it was my introduction to Narnia and there is the sense of despair (1. always winter but never Christmas, 2. Aslan's sacrifice) overcome by great joy.

hectorberlioz · 12-14-2005, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by RÃ*an

It was "Dawn Treader" for a LONG time; I could smell the sea and feel the movement of the ship ... and I loved the un-dragoning!

Horse & Boy is definitely one of my favorites - I love the part where Hwin meets Aslan.

Dawn Treader and Silver Chair by far. Eustace's redemption is among the most powerful things that I've read in Lewis.

me9996 · 12-11-2005, 05:45 PM

Hmm... my faveorite one would be, I guess, The magisions nefue (I can't spell)
The start of naria and all that.

Lief Erikson · 12-11-2005, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by me9996

Hmm... my faveorite one would be, I guess, The magisions nefue (I can't spell)
The start of naria and all that.

I love that one

.

Mercutio · 12-11-2005, 06:51 PM

I haven't read all of them in years. In the past few days I've read LWW and Caspian, though, and so far I like Caspian better.

I don't think I liked the Magician's Nephew so much, but I can't recall why

. Was that the one with the creation of something and the people getting lost in the attic and an Adam/Eve theme?

Elanor · 12-11-2005, 07:29 PM

I remember answering this question in another thread... but I guess I could do it again. My favorites are A Horse and His Boy and Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I love the moment when Shasta is walking alone in the mist through the night, and Aslan walks beside him. When morning comes he sees the lion footprint and realizes he was on a ledge with a steep dropoff and Aslan was walking between him and the edge. He realizes that Aslan had been there all during his journey but he'd never recognized him. After that my favorite moments are the "undragoning" of Eustace, as Rian called it, the Stone Table, and of course, Radagast getting turned into a donkey. When I first read his assurance that anyone can learn to wiggle their ears I was determined to learn how, and I have!

brownjenkins · 12-12-2005, 11:55 AM

the magician's nephew... i always love the background-type stories

***RÃan*** · 12-12-2005, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Elanor

After that my favorite moments are the "undragoning" of Eustace, as Rian called it ...

IIRC, I think Lewis called it that, too, in the book, didn't he?

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When I first read his assurance that anyone can learn to wiggle their ears I was determined to learn how, and I have!

Good for you! I can, too, and so can my daughter! And I can move my eyebrows independently, which cracks up my kids. Every once in awhile when we're all together, like after prayers, we have our talented family body parts show

Sanity's Demise · 03-27-2006, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Elanor

My favorites are A Horse and His Boy and Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I love the moment when Shasta is walking alone in the mist through the night, and Aslan walks beside him. When morning comes he sees the lion footprint and realizes he was on a ledge with a steep dropoff and Aslan was walking between him and the edge. He realizes that Aslan had been there all during his journey but he'd never recognized him.

I loved that part. It was more than my favorite, and it was what endeared the books to me. I like that scene and portrayal of a silently protecting being watching over you. I loved it.

mithrand1r · 03-26-2006, 09:41 AM

I have just finished reading all of the Chronicles of Narnia.

It is difficult to decide which book is the best, since I think that each book has something that I like very much.

If I had to choose, I think I would choose either The Dawn Treader or The Magician's Nephew.

The Black Captain · 06-05-2009, 01:32 PM

It's funny, I always thought that I'd be alone in liking the 3rd book, that doesn't fit into the entire sequence of "people from our world enter another world" thematics.

I'd just like to explain why I love The Horse and His Boy so much.

For one thing, it's a lesson of humilty. Bree is such a boaster and thinks he is so much better than everyone else around him. And then Shasta out-trumps Bree by running back towards a lion that is about to fully pounce on Hwin and (what ever the girl's name was that I can't think of right now) and makes Bree completely miserable because he has finally realised that he isn't half as great as he thought he was.

I also love that unlike the other books, it's not about a bunch of spoiled British school kids that have just had a tiny bit of bad luck. This kid, Shasta, honestly has nothing. His father beats him (does memoery serve me right here?) and he lives a little better than a slave. It's so much easier to feel much more sadness, pity, happiness and all other things that happens to a person when they have experienced very little in their life. And then when he finds out he really is a prince and will one day be king, he doesn't want to be. For the same reason I sometimes read TLTWATW and pretend that there are 5 kids. What happens then? Which one is humble and which one is self-righteous and just takes the throne without question?

I also feel as thought Aslan cared more for Shasta than any other character whatsoever. Aslan says to Shasta how he has always been there for him, and been responsible for every (good) thing that has ever happened to him. (paraprhasing) "And I was the one who pushed the boat when you were just a baby to the man you come to knew as 'father' ".

When I first read that passage of Aslan walking alongside Shasta in the fog (I was about 13) I couldn't help but get teary-eyed from it. I think it was the nicest thing that Aslan ever did for a character in the books.

The Silver Chair is my second favourite, just because of the way that the whole mystery unfolds about Prince Rilian, the quest to find him, and how the four of them overcame the Green Lady/Serpent Witch. As someone else has already posted, how can you not love the speech of Puddleglum (paraphrased): "Even if Narnia were only ever a dream, I prefer the dream to this anyday!"

Then I like TLTWATW third, with TMN fourth, purely based on the way that their storylines offer redemption to the characters Edmund and Digory respectively. Also, the way how Charn is described as such a desolate, dead and evil place is one of the best descriptions of the lair of evil I have ever read (also in TMN).

Torongil · 07-12-2010, 01:19 PM

I've always liked the Silver Chair for some reason. The Horse and his boy was my second favorite.

EllethValatari · 07-13-2010, 12:15 PM

My favorite? Well, I honestly don't have a favorite, because I really don't like the books. And I'm not saying that without having read them, I have read each twice!

(For more on that you can message me

)

GrayMouser · 07-15-2010, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by EllethValatari

My favorite? Well, I honestly don't have a favorite, because I really don't like the books. And I'm not saying that without having read them, I have read each twice!

(For more on that you can message me

)

Why message? Put it out here for all to see- I'd be interested in hearing your PoV, and I'm sure others would, too.

EllethValatari · 08-14-2010, 04:56 PM

***Tessar*** · 08-14-2010, 05:45 PM

I think he means Point of View.

GrayMouser · 08-16-2010, 08:51 AM

Yes indeed, forgive the use of jargon. Again, though, I'm interested in your opinion- you would seem to be a natural fit for the Narnia stories.

12-11-2005, 12:32 AM	#1
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	What is your favorite Narnia book? The book I enjoyed most from the Chronicles was "The Horse and his Boy". What about the rest of you? __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

12-11-2005, 12:44 AM	#2
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	It was "Dawn Treader" for a LONG time; I could smell the sea and feel the movement of the ship ... and I loved the un-dragoning! Horse & Boy is definitely one of my favorites - I love the part where Hwin meets Aslan. __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

12-11-2005, 01:10 AM	#3
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	HAHB was definitely a good story...but I also rather liked the feel of Caspian...just the idea of the underground Narnia was really neat. __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to meâ€”when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen yearsâ€”that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

12-11-2005, 06:51 PM	#8
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	I haven't read all of them in years. In the past few days I've read LWW and Caspian, though, and so far I like Caspian better. I don't think I liked the Magician's Nephew so much, but I can't recall why . Was that the one with the creation of something and the people getting lost in the attic and an Adam/Eve theme? __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

12-11-2005, 07:29 PM	#9
Elanor Hobbit in the Music Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Westmarch Posts: 1,111	I remember answering this question in another thread... but I guess I could do it again. My favorites are A Horse and His Boy and Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I love the moment when Shasta is walking alone in the mist through the night, and Aslan walks beside him. When morning comes he sees the lion footprint and realizes he was on a ledge with a steep dropoff and Aslan was walking between him and the edge. He realizes that Aslan had been there all during his journey but he'd never recognized him. After that my favorite moments are the "undragoning" of Eustace, as Rian called it, the Stone Table, and of course, Radagast getting turned into a donkey. When I first read his assurance that anyone can learn to wiggle their ears I was determined to learn how, and I have! __________________ Middle Earth Crossword Puzzle on the Tolkien Site of DOOM Segovia Mazes

12-12-2005, 11:55 AM	#10
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	the magician's nephew... i always love the background-type stories __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

03-26-2006, 09:41 AM	#13
mithrand1r Cyber Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Left of Rock, Right of Hard Place Posts: 986	I have just finished reading all of the Chronicles of Narnia. It is difficult to decide which book is the best, since I think that each book has something that I like very much. If I had to choose, I think I would choose either The Dawn Treader or The Magician's Nephew. __________________ Sincerely, Anthony 'Many are my names in many countries,' he said. 'Mithrandir among the Elves, TharkÃ»n to the Drarves; OlÃ³rin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South IncÃ¡nus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not.' Faramir What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? Cicero (106BC-43BC)

06-05-2009, 01:32 PM	#14
The Black Captain Sapling Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 6	It's funny, I always thought that I'd be alone in liking the 3rd book, that doesn't fit into the entire sequence of "people from our world enter another world" thematics. I'd just like to explain why I love The Horse and His Boy so much. For one thing, it's a lesson of humilty. Bree is such a boaster and thinks he is so much better than everyone else around him. And then Shasta out-trumps Bree by running back towards a lion that is about to fully pounce on Hwin and (what ever the girl's name was that I can't think of right now) and makes Bree completely miserable because he has finally realised that he isn't half as great as he thought he was. I also love that unlike the other books, it's not about a bunch of spoiled British school kids that have just had a tiny bit of bad luck. This kid, Shasta, honestly has nothing. His father beats him (does memoery serve me right here?) and he lives a little better than a slave. It's so much easier to feel much more sadness, pity, happiness and all other things that happens to a person when they have experienced very little in their life. And then when he finds out he really is a prince and will one day be king, he doesn't want to be. For the same reason I sometimes read TLTWATW and pretend that there are 5 kids. What happens then? Which one is humble and which one is self-righteous and just takes the throne without question? I also feel as thought Aslan cared more for Shasta than any other character whatsoever. Aslan says to Shasta how he has always been there for him, and been responsible for every (good) thing that has ever happened to him. (paraprhasing) "And I was the one who pushed the boat when you were just a baby to the man you come to knew as 'father' ". When I first read that passage of Aslan walking alongside Shasta in the fog (I was about 13) I couldn't help but get teary-eyed from it. I think it was the nicest thing that Aslan ever did for a character in the books. The Silver Chair is my second favourite, just because of the way that the whole mystery unfolds about Prince Rilian, the quest to find him, and how the four of them overcame the Green Lady/Serpent Witch. As someone else has already posted, how can you not love the speech of Puddleglum (paraphrased): "Even if Narnia were only ever a dream, I prefer the dream to this anyday!" Then I like TLTWATW third, with TMN fourth, purely based on the way that their storylines offer redemption to the characters Edmund and Digory respectively. Also, the way how Charn is described as such a desolate, dead and evil place is one of the best descriptions of the lair of evil I have ever read (also in TMN).

07-12-2010, 01:19 PM	#15
Torongil Hobbit Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 23	I've always liked the Silver Chair for some reason. The Horse and his boy was my second favorite.

07-13-2010, 12:15 PM	#16
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	My favorite? Well, I honestly don't have a favorite, because I really don't like the books. And I'm not saying that without having read them, I have read each twice! (For more on that you can message me ) __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." â€” J.R.R. Tolkien

08-14-2010, 04:56 PM	#18
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	PoV? __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." â€” J.R.R. Tolkien

08-14-2010, 05:45 PM	#19
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I think he means Point of View.

08-16-2010, 08:51 AM	#20
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Yes indeed, forgive the use of jargon. Again, though, I'm interested in your opinion- you would seem to be a natural fit for the Narnia stories. __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

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