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Firawyn
05-26-2003, 07:44 PM
I admit that I love Narnia. Don't get me wrong, I love LOTR also. And do NOT ask me to pick favs. Wont happen.

Anyway, if it is okay w/ everyone here, I'd like to start this thread for Narnia. I have searched the web far and wide and I cannot find a half decent Narnia forum. So I would like to have this place set aside for Narnia discussions. Movie talk, book talk, pictures, compare Tolkien and Lewis talk, ect.

Narnia and LOTR are simalar and many people are fans of both. So unless someone can point me in the direction of a GOOD forum for Narnia then this indeed falls under "stuff and bother".

Here's a starter pic.
Celebthôl
05-26-2003, 07:54 PM
They are both beautifully written books and eaqually good, but LOTR is more of a adult book, though they both are my favourites and if im not reading one of them, im reading the other :)...
By the way is there any news on the new Narnia films that are coming out?
Firawyn
05-26-2003, 08:12 PM
Go to www.narnia.com and click on "The Movie". They've got some good info.

'nother pic.:D
Firawyn
05-27-2003, 12:54 AM
Hey here's another pic.
LegolasLuver
05-27-2003, 04:51 AM
well i havent exactly read Narina books, but i've heard there good. I went shopping today and i saw one of the books and i was going to buy it but then i decided to buy something else. so the next time i go shopping i'll have to remember to buy it.
FoolOfATook
05-27-2003, 06:06 AM
I enjoy the Narnia books a great deal, even if our beloved Tolkien could scarely stand them.
Dr. Ransom
05-27-2003, 07:40 AM
Narnia is great, but Space Trilogy was the literary bargian betwen Lewis and Tolkien, both agreed to write an adult Trilogy. Lewis wrote Space Trilogy, Tolkien wrote LOTR.

As you might have noticed, I enjoyed the Space Trilogy quite a bit :D
FoolOfATook
05-27-2003, 07:47 AM
Dr. Ransom, the story actually goes that Lewis and Tolkien decided to each write a story, one about space travel, one about time travel. Tolkien's story was the uncompleted The Lost Road.
YayGollum
05-27-2003, 10:40 AM
Well, I voted for the middle ground thing, but I'm not a huge fan of both. I get into a series of books until I drain every bit of information out of it. While I'm draining, I'm the biggest fan of all time. Good thing LOTR will take a while. :rolleyes: My favorite of this series is either The Horse And His Boy, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, or The Silver Chair. I haven't read them in a while, though.
Talierin
05-27-2003, 06:42 PM
I love Narnia... my favorites are The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle... I'm sooo excited about the new movies! I love the old movies too, and even that cartoon of The LtWatW
Rhiannon
05-28-2003, 05:17 AM
I love both Narnia and LOTR, but I love LOTR more. I haven't read The Space Trilogy yet, but I adore Lewis' Til We Have Faces.
Firawyn
05-28-2003, 06:13 PM
Has anyone read Lewis' Mere Christianity? I got about four chapters in last time I tried to read it. I was only 13 at the time though. I might get farther now that I'm a little older.

Here's a new Narnia pic:
Firawyn
05-28-2003, 06:16 PM
Originally posted by FoolOfATook
I enjoy the Narnia books a great deal, even if our beloved Tolkien could scarely stand them.

:confused: What's that mean?
Rhiannon
05-28-2003, 06:49 PM
Tolkien thought they were extremely childish, I believe.
Firawyn
05-28-2003, 07:00 PM
Originally posted by Rhiannon
Tolkien thought they were extremely childish, I believe.

Po- po face Tolkien.
Talierin
05-28-2003, 08:52 PM
Out of C.S. Lewis' books I've read:

Narnia (half a bazillion times)
Till We Have Faces
Screwtape Letters
The Great Divorce
Mere Christianity (hard to read)
A Mind Awake (a book of his quotes on christianity, organised by topic, most excellent)
The Space Trilogy

I need to beg mom to buy me more next time we're at the christian bookstore, hehehe....
Lantarion
05-29-2003, 12:31 PM
I have only read the "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe", and some of the rest of the series. It's pretty entertaining, but not as in-depth as Tolkien. But the vagueness gives its own depth to it, so it doesn't matter. :)
Y'know, and interesting observation I made a while ago: Tolkien and Lewis were great friends, right? Well, in Sindarin, 'Narnia' means:

narn = 'story', 'tale' [E.g. 'Narn i Hîn Húrin']
îa = 'abyss' [E.g. 'Moria']

'Story Abyss'? Was Tolkien tryin to make a point? ;) :D
Celebthôl
05-29-2003, 12:34 PM
Teehee, well Mr Tolkien did hate the Narnia books right? though i dont see why, :confused: (maybe someone can enlighten me), so maybe he was :D which came first?
Firawyn
05-30-2003, 02:53 AM
Originally posted by Talierin
Out of C.S. Lewis' books I've read:

Narnia (half a bazillion times)
Till We Have Faces
Screwtape Letters
The Great Divorce
Mere Christianity (hard to read)
A Mind Awake (a book of his quotes on christianity, organised by topic, most excellent)
The Space Trilogy

I need to beg mom to buy me more next time we're at the christian bookstore, hehehe....

So it's not just me and Mere Christianity is just plain hard to read?And what's Till we have Faces about?
Talierin
05-30-2003, 03:04 AM
Yeah, MC took me a month to read at least...

Till We Have Faces is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche... it's rather strange, but good
Firawyn
05-30-2003, 07:09 PM
As Elvis would say, Thankyouverymuch!
smeagol444
06-05-2003, 11:50 AM
I love the chronicles of narnia, they're like my childhood. mum and dad used to read me a chapter everynight. I just really hope the movie isn't a miserable failure or I will be most disturbed. the part in the movie when the witch kills aslan in tltwatw made me cry everytime. I haven't read them for ages i have a special box set of them all and everything. ohh, the memories...