lol.. SNL always cracks me up
But anyways...
I remember reading the whole series as a child
and not so long ago I'm strolling in Barnes and Nobles and I
see a box set. I'm all like omg cute I would love to own it.
Being in present day and have not read it for years.. I just finished the series
and I realized something.. it almost is written like a bible..
has anyone else noticed that?
Like I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't read it..
but yeah
Magician's nephew is kind of like the opens the story up in a very
"in the beginning there was nothing" kind of way..
and then in the end..
well you know what happens =P

opinions anyone?

Eh, those books weren't my favorite. I read the Chronicles of Narnia, wasn't that great, in my opinion.

WHAT!
I LOVED those books! They were so interesting to me
personally.
I guess everyones different

Yeah, CS Lewis was a Catholic. If you read the Paralandra stuff, the first book is totally about another world's Adam and Eve. I never really felt pushed to believe in his personal definition of God, though.

I love those books, too. Especially the Dawn Treader and Silver Chair. I think those were the most successful story-wise. Plus, I think Eustace is awesome. For some weird reason.

Yes, C.S. Lewis was VERY Christian, and The Chronicles of Narnia were heavily influenced by his beliefs. Still a very good fantasy series though.

Originally Posted by EternalHearts

Yes, C.S. Lewis was VERY Christian, and The Chronicles of Narnia were heavily influenced by his beliefs. Still a very good fantasy series though.

when i read them i had no clue, altho looking back on it i can see it now.

i just loved the fantasy part of it.

I don't even think my parents realized it was christian in undertone.

Honestly Jaz, i didn't the first time I read them either, but I was also very young then, and wouldn't have 'gotten'it even if I had known. I re-read them about a year ago and caught all SORTS of references. Even being the raging pagan I am, I still think they are a great series, and enjoy the allegory.

I love The Chronicles, through the religious element spoils them slightly for me, mainly in the Magician's Nephew because it's extremely obvious in that one that Aslan is saying he's God, and that takes the fantasy aspect away a little.
Though there's another very religious moment at the end of Voyage of the Dawn Treader that's not as in your face as it is in the first book.
For me it's a shame that he didn't make it more the classic battle between good and evil, rather than God and the Devil, but they're still some of my favourite reading material.

I read these when very young and at age 7 could recite the first chapter of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
They seem very tame now, and have lost a lot of their wonder. Am I the only one? I get more intensity out of, say, the Oz books, or CS Lewis' The Pilgrim's Regress, than of the Narnia books, at this age. The Narnia books are still a well-realized fantasy and a lovely allegory, but...hm. Too "lite."

I seriously need to re-read these books. XD I've re-read the Wrinkle in Time series and the Prydain Chronicles, it's time for Narnia, especially after seeing the movie. XD I think, though, I probably enjoyed the movie more since it'd been so long since I last read the books.

I read them when I was much younger (I'm 21 now) and owned the box set then and I do remember, as I read them, how much they did seem to fit certain stories of the Bible and had that continuous element of faith in them.


C.S. Lewis was an Anglican (and wrote several things discussing the Anglican faith) during the war and wanted a story to tell the children he and his wife, Joy (I believe her name was), took in since they lived in the country.

What better way to tell a story that is both new and familiar then to combine magic and faith?

I liked the movie much more than I liked the books... they were just too boring for my taste.

In some ways I like the movies better then the book so I do agree with Puff on that. My only problem with the movie was their skipping over some information, which I understand since they wanted a decent running length time for kids, and leaving questions in the mind of the audience who may have not read the books or don't remember them.


Really - my only problem was with the end when they were being crowned and given their full titles without the background of how they earned these new names.

Narnia has many religious references, the author was religious, a key example in the lion the witch and the wardrobe, aslan dies at the sun sets and is reborn the next day at sunrise similar to jesus, aslo his bindings are relased by mice chewing at them (like in the fable)