Chronicles of Narnia

Not a complete oddball. I also am not crazy about them, although I do like them.

The movies that are out now are really good, though. Especially the Silver Chair. There are movies out on 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' as well, also 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.'

I think they're quite well done, although TVotDT was a bit slower than the other two.

I've never been as into them as the LotR, but they're okay.

I'm sure there was one of Prince Caspian, too... it wasn't a film, really, it was one of thos BBC dramas, in several parts. When I was really little, this is. Probably about 10 years ago, or slightly under. Anyone remember that? I think they did a whole sreies of them, because there was definitely a VotDT one, although that may be something different.

Not I, believee me.

Hey, I`m NOT alone! The books are ok but I just had trouble keeping an interest. A matter of preference I guess. I`ve never seen any of those movies / productions.

Too bad. :/

I've seen those BBC productions. Not as in watched them but I've seen them for sale. A&E has them for sale in their brochure and I think you can probably get them direct from BBC too.

I do remember the animated film though. I watched it countless times when I was younger. I would very much like to see it again. I thought it was rather well done. Any one else remember the animated version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

You really should see the BBC productions. They're very good, although never having seen the animated version, I can't launch a comparison.

[IronParrot]

Bringing this back to the top.

[Strange-Looking Lurker]

VODT is probably my fav...and TMN is really good too. I've alwasy thought it would have been interesting for Lewis to write a story in which he was the main character, going through all sorts of adventure while researching for the Narnia books!

Susan was my fav. character, and I wanted to shoot Lewis with a bazooka when she quite believing in Narnia. How dare he ruin my fav. character? Makes me mad just thinking about it.

[galadriel]

I was a Lucy fan. I think I related with her or something. And Reepicheep (I probably misspelt that), the Talking Mouse, he was hilarious!

My favorite books were Voyage of the Dawn Treader and the Last Battle. The scene at the end, when all of our favorite characters from all the books meet up in HeavenNarnia, that was totally heartwarming and cool.

[Varda]

Well I was introduced to The Chronicles of Narnia from the animated version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I really liked Lucy in that. Peter and Susan didn't stand out to me as much, and I thought Edmund was interesting. I was really little at the time.

I saw the BBC ones I think... with Lucy as the chubby brunette girl... There was one for TLWW, PC, TVDT and SC. I liked the one for SC best. I didn't like Lucy in that, though. My roommate saw that one first, and as a result she didn't like Lucy in the books as well either, while I always had the image of the cute blonde girl from the animation.

I think I finally got through all the books sometime in the middle of elementary school. Right now I have loned out TMN to a friend who has not returned it yet. I reread the series minus that one recently, and it just wasn't the same! It is my favorite one, because I like books that come full circle like that.

Also, I don't know if Lewis intended this, but Aslan singing everything into existence is very much like the Navajo tradition, which involves a spider singing the world into existence. Knowing Lewis' Christian views, I wouldn't think it likely that he would borrow from a "pagan" tradition like that.

[Varda]

oh, and in addition, I'm sure I have not caught all of the allegory stuff since I am not very Christian or knowledgeable about such things. Besides Aslan being God/Christ or something like that... and the Last Battle... I don't think I caught very many if there were more.

[galadriel]

There were lots of subtle things that were allegorical, although I can't remember most of them. The only one that sticks out in my mind is the banquet in Dawn Treader where they find the two guys asleep. There's a lot of references that connect the banquet with communion.

[IronParrot]

The Horse And His Boy is essentially a good chunk of Exodus.

Shasta = Moses

And the rest is easy to figure out.

[galadriel]

duh.

How did I not get the Shasta-Moses connection before?

[IronParrot]

[Bringing this thread back to the top... seems to be an influx of Narnia fans about.]

[Reumandar]

I Love Chronicles of Narnia they are sssooo awesome
My favorite books are... hmmm... thats hard... The magicians(spl) Nephew and Prince Caspian and The Voyage(spl) of the Dawn trader might be my favorites... And favorite Person(s)... Peter and Prince Caspian and Mr. and Mrs. Beaver
I LLLUUUUUUUUUUUUVVVVVVVV These books

[Finrod Felagund]

I love Chronicles of Narnia.

It's also cool how Tolkien helped convince Lewis about Christianity and how they were such good friends.

[crickhollow]

I love how his idea was to take the Christian message out of its sterilized "Christian" surroundings, and put it across in a way that would be real to people

[azalea]

Originally posted by Reumandar
And favorite Person(s)... Peter and Prince Caspian and Mr. and Mrs. Beaver

It's funny, my favorite was always Edmund.