#narnia the lion the with and the wadrobe

[moonsbypadfoot]

edmund, my love <3

#edmund pevensie #edmund #narnia the lion the with and the wadrobe #narnia moodboard #narnia aesthetic #chronicles of narnia #narnia #the chronicles of narnia #narnia edmund #edmund pevensie fan #the pevensies #pevensies #moodboard

[astriiformes]

Wait, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe was published first? What the heck, I didn't know that. I always assumed The Magician's Nephew was first, since it always came first. Thanks for making me aware of that!

Man, maybe this is just my own childhood nostalgia bias showing since I grew up with a set that was in publication order, but it's been absolutely wild to learn that a lot of people seem to either not know the original order of the books or assume that anyone showing a preference for is just doing so because of the new movies or pop culture osmosis as opposed to being deeply familiar with the series themselves. No shade to anyone just learning the opposite, of course, but I had no idea this had become such a thing!

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew aren't even the only Narnia books published out of chronological order. The whole series was written as a series of sequels/prequels (and one interquel) and I thought it showed a lot more visibly. They were originally published in the order:

1 - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wadrobe 2 - Prince Caspian 3 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 4 - The Silver Chair 5 - The Horse and His Boy 6 - The Magician's Nephew 7 - The Last Battle

The Magician's Nephew was originally, like, an intentional dip into the mythology of the world as a penultimate installment before the finale and strikes me as a genuinely poor place to start the series, since it's got so many little nudges to previous books that I feel like work much better if you've already got familiarity with the world. Out of curiosity, I poked around and it looks like the series only started being published in chronological order in 1994 or so, which is why it's still extremely common to find sets in the original order in used bookstores (or, if you grew up with an extremely nerdy dad like I did, who picked up his copies sometimes in the 70s or 80s, as your personal family set)

I guess it doesn't really matter (and I'm not exactly a Narnia fan myself these days, so I'm not about to be a true pedant about it) but I feel like from an academic perspective at least it makes more sense to analyze them in the order they were written. Maybe that's just me! But I am also laughing a little at the multiple people today who have apparently assumed I cited The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as the first in the series due to only having casual familiarity with the books as opposed to the truth, which is that most of my personality was defined by them until, like, age 9 probably. The main reason I still have such strong opinions on this despite all my other complicated feelings about Narnia is because growing up I was the kind of kid who read biographies of C.S. Lewis for fun and thus have a lot of thoughts about the associated historiography. Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch, I was there when it was written and all that.

[art-of-narnia]

Behind the door by Mina Youssef

Artwork found here.

#The Chronicles of Narnia #The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe #art #drawing #silhouettes #ink #Lucy #wadrobe #forest #trees #snow #Mr. Tumnus #faun #lamppost

[aesthetic--mood]

Susan Pevensie Aesthetic

#susan pevensie #queen #narnia #aslan #lion #witch #wadrobe #clive staples lewis #books #films #aesthetic

[oblivionhold]

The criticism Astruc gets over Chloe reminds me of the justified criticism CS Lewis got when he completed Susan’s arc in The Last Battle.

I know very little about The Chronicles of Narnia, apologies. I remember reading the series around when the Lion, Witch, and the Wadrobe movie came out, but I don't remember much of it, and what I do remember is, like, Prince Caspian, so I wouldn't know.

#ask response

[queeensusan]

What is your fav Narnia book? And fav Narnia movie?

i haven’t read the books in ages so i really can’t say (i need to rectify this this summer). 

my favourite movie would be the lion the witch and the wadrobe since it’s the most accurate adaptation of the 3. also, chubby cheeked lucy is the cutest :)

#replies #Anonymous

[karinasstoryme-blog]

MY BOOK LIST TO READ

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen✔

"The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank

"1984" by George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling✔

"The Lord of the Rings" (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien✔

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte✔

"Animal Farm" by George Orwell

"Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger✔

"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain✔

"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe" by C.S. Lewis✔

"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

"The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

"Night" by Elie Wiesel

"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare✔

"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle

"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare✔

"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams

"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry✔

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

"The Giver" by Lois Lowry

"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein

"Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte

"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

"Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain✔

"Macbeth" by William Shakespeare

"The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larrson  

"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

"The Holy Bible: King James Version"

"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

"The Stand" by Stephen King

"Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling✔

"Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card

"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy✔

"Watership Down" by Richard Adams

"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden✔

"Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

"A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin✔

"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway✔

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling✔

"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne✔

"Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge" by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis

"The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett

"Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins✔

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl✔

"Dracula" by Bram Stoker

"The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

"The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

"The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger

"The Odyssey" by Homer

"The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)" by Pearl S. Buck

"Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)" by Suzanne Collins

"And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

"The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough

"A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving

"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

"Beloved" by Toni Morrison

"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

"Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese

"The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky✔

"The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller

#books #booklover #top100books #passion #love

[moonsbypadfoot]

susan was no longer a friend of Narnia, but will always be remembered.

#the chronicles of narnia #chronicles of narnia #narnia #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #narnia the lion the with and the wadrobe #susan pevensie #susan #pevensie #Pevensies #narnia moodboard #narnia aesthetic #moodboard

[astriiformes]

How does the 1st ep reference it? Genuinely asking

The first episode of The Owl House is called "A Lying Witch and a Warden," which is a riff on "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe" (the title of the first Narnia book).

#f: us weirdos have to stick together