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IS ANYONE ELSE FEELING THE HOPE OF SPRING

#🤲💗💝 #lww #lww (movie) #talking beasts #mrs beaver #mr beaver #mr fox #movies #funny

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"There is still time to surrender."

"Well feel free."

I adore Peter in the duel scene (well I adore him anyway) but he just oozes confidence and coolness. I'm still getting the hang of painting faces but I'm pretty proud of how this came out, especially the chain mail - sheesh.

#wow! this is incredibly impressive! #Watercolor? WAterCOLOR??? #being precise with watercolor is SO difficult this is amazing #peter pevensie #pc #pc (movie) #movies #art #fanwork #picture #queue

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Kings of Narnia 

#oooohhhhh #them💝💖 #movies #pc #pc (movie) #peter pevensie #edmund pevensie #caspian x #They all have different strengths as leaders...and their personalities come out through their rulership in such different ways #I really love it yknow? #💖 #Edmund carries his lessons from his time with the white witch; Peter is always thinking of the goal or task he sees before him; #book Caspian has to rein in his desire for greatness and adventure to make sure he focuses on his responsibilities (in votdt at least); #meanwhile movie Caspian (to me) carries such a feeling of duty and reverence for Narnia #because he's aware of all the damage his people and ancestors have done. #Oooh it's a fun dynamic between all of them. I should reread (and/or rewatch) PC sometime #(as in sometime soon.... goodness knows I'll see it at least a few more times in my lifetime heehehehe <3) #queue

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You guys think Rilian ever sneaks out to the stables at night to sit with Coalblack and Snowflake because Narnia has become a stranger to him and the only comfort he can find is in the animals who were captives alongside him?

#BRUH #🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #'You guys think' NOW i do 100% #I really like this because I feel like it's a trope in fantasy for the character to return to the land they were born in #(or lived in for a short time) and immediately feel a sense of belonging #and that trope has roots in literary tradition and I think it has insights of its own to offer... #But I also feel like there are other impacts that such an experience would have on a person #such as what OP talks about here. #Now that trope I'm thinking of doesn't match up with Rilian *exactly* given that he was quite grown by the time the green witch captured hi #but still. Living with the memory of painful/traumatic periods of life isn't simple or clear-cut. #Rilian lived under the witch's spell for SO long. Those memories can't be easily cast aside. #I really like the idea that he doesn't have to be alone in this---he can be with his horses just as he was then #and in a way he can have someone who understands 💙 #books #tsc #rilian #meta #Honestly sometimes life is about imagining a guy petting his horse's neck #queue

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#oh wow #honestly that is so powerful to me #Aslan offering his voice to his people for when they are weak and alone... #Caspian looks so young and unsure and yeah he has REASON to be afraid. But Aslan has given Narnians the horn #pc #pc (movie) #caspian x #movies #queue

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Concept art of Susan’s armour for Prince Caspian (2008), by Weta Workshop’s Christian Pearce

#movies #pc #pc (movie) #susan pevensie #queue #art

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The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

By C. S. Lewis

#cs lewis #<3 #cute. family <333 #books #queue

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I am literally never going to be over the fact that Eustace's first instinct was to threaten to sue absolutely any and everyone and he just did not give it up for like, a week and a half or something

Even after being confronted with a talking mouse and all the other normal Narnian nonsense, he really thought he was going to succeed in dragging one of those guys into an English court of law in full armor with a sword, and somehow this would constitute a victory for him

Child. Cross-dimensional lawsuits aren't a thing. And if they were, you would not want C. S. Lewis to be the one who wrote it

#funny #eustace scrubb #votdt #votdt (movie) #votdt (book) #queue

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this changed me as a child

#books #hhb #aravis #lasaraleen #queue

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The Pevensie children

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#lww #the pevensies #art #fanwork #susan pevensie #peter pevensie #edmund pevensie #lucy pevensie #queue

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Imagine having a snowball fight with Queen Susan

Masterlist

#congrats to everyone out there with fluffy snow outside right now :) #susan pevensie #movies #anna popplewell #the golden age of narnia #queue

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Got nostalgic for Narnia, so I made some gifs from the old 80s version of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. My mum had an old tape of this back in the day, and I always loved the animated parts of it, so I thought I'd make some gifs of the animated bits just for fun.

Plus a bonus Aslan, because I love him 🦁

#i really want to watch this #i love the way Aslan looks :0 #and the shivering colors of the animals are really entrancing to me #lww (80s) #lww #talking beasts #queue #aslan

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No one touch me I am breaking down

#ben barnes #pc #pc (movie) #cast #movies #queue

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (2005) dir. Andrew Adamson

#merry christmas! #the pevensies #peter pevensie #lucy pevensie #susan pevensie #santa #lww #lww (movie) #movies

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Got bored and doodled older Pevensies

#the golden age of narnia #the pevensies #lucy pevensie #edmund pevensie #susan pevensie #peter pevensie #art #picture #queue

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Reepicheep & The Wave

I was inspired by this gifset, and I wanted to make my own post just in case the gifmaker (@scottmalloy) wouldn't appreciate a bunch of meta in their notifications 😅

Honestly I think the movie did really well in translating this moment to the screen. The scene in the book grounds you in the perspective of the human characters: Reepicheep disappears over the edge of the wave. This emphasizes that he's going to a beautiful place, but one that the kids aren't able to understand yet. However, the book has the advantage of 3rd person narration. When C.S. Lewis presents the image to his reader, he can give mood and the visuals as one: "[the wave] was a smooth green slope. The coracle went more and more quickly, and beautifully it rushed up the wave's side" (Voyage of the Dawn Treader [VotDT], chapter 16). Lewis can tell us the motion was 'beautiful,' but the movie has to convince us to find it beautiful.

However, the movie has the advantage of being able to take us along with Reepicheep without needing to describe what he's seeing. The water rushing under his boat & towards the screen (4th gif) gives that sense of "more and more quickly...it rushed up the wave," but our ability to empathize with his sweet little Mouse face facial expression (5th gif) is what really solidifies that poignant 'beauty' from the book.

That visual of the Pevensies and Caspian in the background (gifs 4 & 5) achieves the same effect of the book's final image of Reepicheep. There's a feeling of mounting adventure & happiness, and then a moment of quiet wonder when he disappears into a place the reader/viewer can't go. The movie gets this feeling by having the audience rise up the wave with Reep, then come to a slow stop as he passes us by. We see the humans through the spray and realize we're still in their shoes. Meanwhile, the book utilizes the power of 3rd person narration by having Reepicheep slip beyond the reach of the story: "For one split second they saw [the coracle's] shape and Reepicheep's on the very top. Then it vanished, and since that moment no one can truly claim to have seen Reepicheep the Mouse" (VotDT, ch. 16).

In the movie, the mist from the wave, the faint rainbow inside, the vibrant colors of the water, & the image of Reepicheep's smile give us that "moment of quiet wonder" that I mentioned before. Lewis, on the other hand, tells us: "...since that moment no one can truly claim to have seen Reepicheep the Mouse. But my belief is that he came safe to Aslan's country and is alive there to this day" (ch. 16).

PS. The thing that got me excited about this gifset in the first place is the sword in gif 1! This visual appears in the book: "Then [Reepicheep] took off his sword ('I shall need it no more,' he said) and flung it far...Where it fell it stood upright with the hilt above the surface" (ch. 16). The sword-in-the-ground symbol pops up across history and can have various meanings. However, one meaning is that the sword alludes to the Christian cross (✝️). I bet this sword/cross symbol is what Lewis (and the VotDT movie) were referencing. This symbol can be interpreted as a sign of peace, since a sword in the ground is a weapon with its dangerous side 'buried'/set aside.

Again, I like how the movie translates this image. The poignance of this moment in the book comes from the chapter's overall tone. For example, here's a line that precedes Reep throwing the sword: "everything now felt as if it had been fated or had happened before" (ch. 16). Meanwhile, the movie emphasizes the poignance by contrasting Reep's casual discarding of the weapon ("I won't be needing this," gif 1) with the hugeness of the scene overall.

#la la la movie~ ✨💫 #reepicheep #the voyage of the dawn treader #voyage of the dawn treader #votdt (book) #votdt (movie) #votdt #c s lewis #cs lewis #pyra speaks #tw christianity #movies #books #narnia #narnia meta #tcon meta #tcon

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

My country was made for noble hearts such as yours... no matter how small their bearers be.

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