Hello all,
Having seen the trailer for “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, I thought it might be appropriate to start up a Narnia appreciation thread in anticipation- I don’t think this has been covered before.  So:
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[*]Which one’s your favourite book?
[*]Who’s your favourite character?
[*]What’s your favourite/most memorable quote?
[*]Which bit of the Narnia series makes you go “Ahh, now I understand Christianity better”
[*]Which bit of the Narnia series makes you go “Huh? Is this meant to be allegorical/suppositional to the Christian faith?”
[*]Oh, and what order do YOU read the books in?
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For me…
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[*]The Last Battle, closely followed by The lion, the witch & the wardrobe…
[*]Mr Tumnus
[*]Don’t have a copy on me… and don’t have the brain capacity to quote from memory
[*]When the Calormene soldier enters “Aslan’s World” in the Last Battle… cf the theif on the cross.
[*]Lots of it… unless there’s a really obvious connection, I’ve given up trying to find a correlation for everything
[*]Chronologically by what happens, ie: not in order of what was written first
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Looking forward to your responses

Thanks Ivana,
I love the Narnia books. I really hope they do TLtWatW well.

The Last Battle

Puddleglum...that most optimistic of Marshwiggles.

“Yes,” said the Lord Digory. “[The stable’s] inside is bigger than its outside”
“Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world”

When the Dawntreader landed on the Island of Deathwater. They found a pool that turns everything that goes into it to gold. Both Caspian and Edward claimed it for themselves. They almost come to blows over ownership of a pool that could make them fabulously rich. It is then they see Aslan looking at them, and they realize they are being stupid children. I am often reminded of this story when I am tempted to be greedy, become too attached to possessions.

“Huh??”

I read them in the order they were published. To me they seem to develop in complexity as the series progresses.

Which one’s your favourite book?

The Silver Chair

Who’s your favourite character?

Shasta

What’s your favourite/most memorable quote?

“Further up and further in!”

Which bit of the Narnia series makes you go “Ahh, now I understand Christianity better”

Aslans part in guiding Shasta to his destiny in “The Horse and His Boy”. Affirms the beautiful idea that Jesus is always watching and guiding us.

Which bit of the Narnia series makes you go “Huh? Is this meant to be allegorical/suppositional to the Christian faith?”

The young soldier in the Last Battle who worships Tash but is accepted into the new world

Oh, and what order do YOU read the books in?

Chronological

I confess I’ve only read these through once - Wardrobe twice, as we did it in year 7 English - so my answer is a bit vague.  “You know, that bit with that guy and the thing...”

The one part that really stayed with me was where Aslan was the only one who could peel off the dragon skin.  Wow. 

As for the movie, I can’t wait.  The trailers look brilliant, so I’m up for a reread of the books and then on to the WETA-y movie goodness with Richard Taylor commentaries.

Narnia

I’m not a good reader of novels, preferring non fiction, but I do love the Narnia series. I have not yet read The Horse and his Boy, but.

The publishers of the series tell you to read the books in the chronologcal order established by the author himself, but I think it is much better to read them in the order that Jack Lewis wrote them.

However, when I was a child, we had a publisher friend who gave us a copy of The Magicians’s Nephew [he worked for Penguin Books] and so I did first read the book that the Lewis estate says you should read first. But ... don’t believe them! Read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe first: much more sensible!

Ok, that’s it! I need to read these books. I have read wardrobe because, like Sophie, I had to study it in Yr 7, but I just never got around to the rest of them - even though I read LotR when I was 13 and Les Miserables when I was 14.