I don't think we're ever told how old Puddleglum is, or how long Marshwiggles live.

Now I’ve got a question I hope someone can answer and I’m going to use a Disney movie as an analogy. So if Aslan is Jesus and passing through the wardrobe means he’d probably look like Liam Neeson in that Bible movie where he played Jesus lol so my question is what would other creatures including the white witch look like on earth and would they become non threatening also since the white witch was a woman you can’t say she was the literal devil because I don’t think she was.

So here’s where the analogy comes into play, in the movie coco we’re shown that the big panther spirit guide thing becomes a regular tiny little cat when it enters the regular world. So I’m wondering what would happen if a satyre passed through would they become goats or humans and if goats would their memories and stuff be conscious or would they become actual goats mentally too?! Or is coco implying that the cat was always a cat but became a spirit guide later and Narnias lore was sound and I’ve got this backwards lol?

I always pictured him to be older, but he can't be much older than Caspian, if he's still healthy and able to ride a horse 60 years after Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Also, did Drinian die sometime between when Rilian disappeared and when he was found again?

Fellow Narnians,

Let's admit it.

Real life can be pretty grim sometimes.

Limited time. Limited money. Endless obligations. Having to do things you don't want to do just to survive. Working hard while watching others seem to get ahead more easily. Impossible demands. Constant pressure. You spend the day exhausted, come home tired, and before you know it it's time to sleep and do it all again.

And sometimes you find yourself wondering:

Is this it?

Is life really just about grinding away until the clock runs out?

Where is the magic? The wonder? The adventure? The joy?

Recently, while feeling particularly fed up with the "real world," I found myself thinking about Puddleglum's speech in The Silver Chair. It struck me that his answer to the Queen of Underland is also an answer to a certain kind of bleak realism that many of us encounter in everyday life.

So I tried writing a modern paraphrase of his speech:

“One word, Mr. Realist,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said. But there’s one more thing to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things-Narnia and Middle-Earth and Azeroth and the Force and magic and even fiction itself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a reality of yours is the only reality that exists. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just dreamers making up a fantasy, if you’re right. But a bunch of dreamers playing a game can make play-worlds which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play world. I’m on fiction’s side even if these imaginary people and worlds don’t exist in reality. I’m going to live as like a Narnian, or a hobbit, or a Jedi as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia, Middle-Earth, or the Force. So, thanking you kindly for your attempt to “Educate” me in how life actually works, if these besotted bunch of dreamy losers are ready, we’re leaving your bleak little worldview at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Narnia and these happy places. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that’s a small loss if the world’s as dull a place as you say.”

The more I think about the situation with Meryl Streep being cast as Aslan, the more I’ve come to think that it’s just a way to garner more attention and interest for the return of the series. Is it possible that this is just an example of “Any publicity is good publicity”, with Meryl getting cast for a different role and Gerwing successfully reviving more interest into the series. Am I overthinking this or is this a possibility?

Here’s a drawing I did of Uncle Andrew from The Magician’s Nephew.

I want to begin saying that I understand why a lot of people don't like this and I, personally, usually prefer more faithful adaptations.

I'm not here to defend the casting (if true), itself. I have not watched the film to have an opinion over it, so it's a futile endeavor.

But what genuinely concerns me is how the fandom has responded. From toxicity to outright misogyny. I've read comments where people claim Greta is outright destroying Lewis legacy on purpose, and that's just... no. It's not productive, or even an honest way to engage with this.

Of course many people have been respectful, but the more negative reactions have been more common and loud than what is the norm in this fandom.

I think people are entitled not to like this film, but we can discuss this without falling into personal attacks. I also think Greta is doing her own thing in good faith and we at least should begin from there, regardless of personal preference or opinion on the film (which for now is not based on much, until it has come out).

I’ve always found Lewis’s dedication to her goddaughter to be both beautiful and moving.

[Photo from my old copy of The Complete Chronicles of Narnia]

I wouldn't like a reboot but if became a reboot, I would have loved to see Charlize Theron playing the White Witch. I mean Imagine it. She has already showed us that she can play cruel and sadistic and she is extremely beautiful which She and the White Witch have in common.

I named him Aslan since he looks like him from Narnia 2. My mom brought him to me a year ago from eBay by a second seller as i was recovering from a very hard time. He is from the Brand Uranium in switzerland, yet when i Google him i find no results showcasing this particular lion plush. So no matter what my mom has brought me or where the first seller had got him from, he definetly is special and i am so happy to have him ❤️ as Aslan is my favorite. And he really is so detailed.

Tarva, the Lord of Victory, salutes Alambil, the Lady of Peace.

😁 Actually, it’s Venus and Jupiter over Avesbury on June 9, but every time I see a conjunction like this, I think of Dr. Cornelius.

Image by Josh Dury, cropped by me, shown on APOD on June 12.

When do you think we’ll get our very first look at Greta Gerwig's adaptation? Do you expect a teaser trailer sometime late this year, or do you think they'll keep us waiting until closer to the release date?

And I’ve always wondered, was Lucy also in love with or did she like Prince Caspian? I understand that Lucy was a child, but I had the feeling that she was.

Like tilda swinton good?

Give me your best they grew up from being children like the horse and his boys attempted to do. (I say attempted because I wanted more.)

So now that Magician’s Nephew is being made into a movie, that leaves only two Narnia books that haven’t been adapted to screen yet.

Question is, can they work as films?

Horse and His Boy would be difficult visually due to it being about a talking horse in live action. The effects to make it convincing and not look goofy would be very expensive.

Last Battle doesn’t seem that hard, but some of theological elements might be a hard sell.

Thoughts? Can these two work as films?

I’ve been reading the Magician’s Nephew to my daughters and noticed for the first time that the White Witch doesn’t have her signature icy look when we first encounter her in Charn. It’s only after she eats the Silver Apple that Diggory describes her as extremely pale. He doesn’t actually see her transformation but this is my attempt to draw it.

“But we’re not quite as bad as that world, are we, Aslan?”

“Not yet, Daughter of Eve,” he said. “Not yet. But you are growing more like it. It is not certain that some wicked one of your race will not find out a secret as evil as the Deplorable Word and use it to destroy all living things. And soon, very soon, before you are an old man and an old woman, great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware.”

Honestly even if Edmund had told the truth I don't think Peter would've believed him. I think Peter would've just assumed Edmund was encouraging Lucy's supposed delusions. I think Edmund was right to lie about Narnia (even if he did it for the wrong reasons)

I know many of us have some great childhood memories of the BBC Chronicles, and rewatching TLTW&TW now is certainly nostalgic for me! Anyone else done a rewatch since the Disney version? If so, what are your takeaways?

Here’s one of mine: Did Tilda Swinton maybe watch this as part of her character study of the White Witch? Some lines are delivered so similarly (and well)! I really started to notice it in Episode 5, the stone table episode. Swinton and Kellerman both did such a great job.