Chronicles of Narnia

[HeIsRisen2018]

Since I was told that I could still mention Harry Potter on here, just not start a whole entire thread about it I just have to say that as much as I still love HP and always will, I have always loved the Chronicles of Narnia as well. It also has Christian elements in it so I didn't really think that there would be as big of a problem starting a topic entirely devoted to it. I'm really curious who all has read the books and seen the movies. I've done both, but I have seen the movies more.

 

[Tatilina]

The book and the movies are the best. I hate this world so much and the Chronicles of Narnia help me to escape to a place where you are never alone and surround by people and animals that love and care for. The crazy amazing adventures I can only dream of, wishing and hoping it exists. I f a place ever did exist, I would stay there and never come back. I don’t belong in this world.

 

[evenifigoalone]

I read them all two or three times as a kid. I've seen most if not all of the movies, too, the BBC and Disney ones.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

I read them all two or three times as a kid. I've seen most if not all of the movies, too, the BBC and Disney ones.

I thought that the last one was the only BBC one.

 

[evenifigoalone]

There's two or three BBC Narnia movies that are from the 80's I think.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

There's two or three BBC Narnia movies that are from the 80's I think.

Oh Ok, I only know about the third movie that was made that didn't belong to the Disney company. Maybe that was Fox though.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

The one thing I don't get about the Chronicles of Narnia (which I happen to be watching right now by the way) is why didn't Edmund and Lucy just become the prince and princess of Narnia since they were both the youngest son and daughter. That would have made much more sense instead of there being two kings and two queens.

 

[Willie T]

The one thing I don't get about the Chronicles of Narnia (which I happen to be watching right now by the way) is why didn't Edmund and Lucy just become the prince and princess of Narnia since they were both the youngest son and daughter. That would have made much more sense instead of there being two kings and two queens.

They ruled as a common form of Monarchy in olden times, a tetrarchy. The term tetrarchy (from the Greek: τετραρχία, tetrarchia, "leadership of four [people]") describes any form of government where power is divided among four individuals, but in modern usage usually refers to the system instituted by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 293, marking the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and the recovery of the Roman Empire. This tetrarchy lasted until c. 313, when internecine conflict eliminated most of the claimants to power, leaving Constantine in control of the western half of the empire, and Licinius in control of the eastern half.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

They ruled as a common form of Monarchy in olden times, a tetrarchy. The term tetrarchy (from the Greek: τετραρχία, tetrarchia, "leadership of four [people]") describes any form of government where power is divided among four individuals, but in modern usage usually refers to the system instituted by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 293, marking the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and the recovery of the Roman Empire. This tetrarchy lasted until c. 313, when internecine conflict eliminated most of the claimants to power, leaving Constantine in control of the western half of the empire, and Licinius in control of the eastern half.

Oh alright, I never heard of that before.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

I love this scene from the third Chronicles of Narnia movie. It's pretty obvious what or rather who Aslan is talking about here.

 

[New Day Coming]

I loved the quote from Puddleglum in The Silver Chair ...

"One word, Ma'am," 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-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. 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 kingdom of yours is the only world. 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 babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. 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.
C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

I loved the quote from Puddleglum in The Silver Chair ...

"One word, Ma'am," 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-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. 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 kingdom of yours is the only world. 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 babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. 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.
C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

I'm not quite sure what that all means actually. I'm more familiar with the movies than the books.

 

[New Day Coming]

I'm not quite sure what that all means actually. I'm more familiar with the movies than the books.

It was C.S Lewis's comment (in story form) to the unbelieving materialism of the 20th Century Bertrand Russells. If you have never read the Silver Chair, it is a great allegory of faith and doubt, prophecy and deception that more people in 2018 should read ;-)

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

It was C.S Lewis's comment (in story form) to the unbelieving materialism of the 20th Century Bertrand Russells. If you have never read the Silver Chair, it is a great allegory of faith and doubt, prophecy and deception that more people in 2018 should read ;-)

Alright thanks, I'll give it a read. It might be hard for me to understand though.

 

[New Day Coming]

Alright thanks, I'll give it a read. It might be hard for me to understand though.

It's just that I gave you a quote outside its context... It takes place after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and picks up the story from there.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

It's just that I gave you a quote outside its context... It takes place after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and picks up the story from there.

Alright, I'll try to give it a read. Right now I'm a little busy with The Hunger Games and Harry Potter and The Halfblood Prince though. As soon as I get finished with one of those series I'll start reading Narnia again and make sure to read that one as well this time.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

Hey, I'm really surprised that you liked that considering I mentioned the H word. But thanks though.

 

[New Day Coming]

Hey, I'm really surprised that you liked that considering I mentioned the H word. But thanks though.

I watched the Matrix and enjoyed it ;-)

Sometimes you can choose to ignore elements of a story that are spiritually unhelpful and focus on the good bits! If I couldn't do this, I would need to be much more selective.

Paul, in his sermon at Mars Hill refers to the Greek poets (decidedly un-Christian writers) as he related to that culture. We still live in the world and with the worldly after all...

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

I watched the Matrix and enjoyed it ;-)

Sometimes you can choose to ignore elements of a story that are spiritually unhelpful and focus on the good bits! If I couldn't do this, I would need to be much more selective.

Paul, in his sermon at Mars Hill refers to the Greek poets (decidedly un-Christian writers) as he related to that culture. We still live in the world and with the worldly after all...

Exactly and we've got to remember that it's pure fun and fantasy as well.