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DarkKomet, what I don't understand is if you want something radically off-canon, why not write out your own vision with your own characters? That way you will experience true artistic freedom. I could, if I wanted, write a crossover story with Pinocchio and Babylon 5, but the idea that Pinocchio...

I really think the title of this thread should be More Nuanced Characters rather than "Realistic Morality," which implies the world view that nobody is ever truly bad or good. One thing I've discovered in my travels is the difference between "Normal" which is often misused, and "Normative" which...

There are too many other opportunities for people who want 50 Shades of Bray to find that everyone is actually all the same. We have to remember that Narnia is an unfallen world. Things happen a little different there. They don't close shops on Memorial Day but they do take National Potato Week...

My northern ice cap is not gone, but by now it is thinning in places....

Already I am seeing sectional infighting among smooth and creamy. Come on, folks, let's remember what Peter Pan said and solve this in a Jif!

A little friendly reminder here that a significant number of fans believe that Aslan is God the Son incarnate as a lion the way he appeared as a man in our world. There are numerous references in the story that would show CS Lewis was implying this. This would make Aslan's "brother" a fourth...

Welcome aboard, Goosie...your secret is safe with us! ;-)

It's all in the subtlety. Remember that the full colour photo you printed out came from four colours of ink.

Sounds Kabbalistic to me, as in the relationship between sound and creation you saw at the beginning of The Magician's Nephew. Jewish mysticism (meaning don't search the Old Testament for it, it's superstition) related that certain sounds affect nature, which accounts for God saying "Let there...

That can go down the wrong path in a hurry. Certain things deserve to be discussed frankly and civilly, but not on a Narnia forum, please.

Princess Frances, to poke a little fun at your fandom, the name was originally "Doctor Whom" but it sounded too pretentious. ;-) (BTW: I used to be a big Doctor Who fan)

Or Jadis could be like Hitler and decide these fools muffed their one chance at true greatness, therefore they did not deserve to live. Burn everything. If we can't live on our own terms, we'll die on our own terms.

I would be sparing with old Anglo-Saxon names like Mildred and old French names like Genevieve. Clearly Lewis generated those names by using the languages of similar cultures on Earth but did not directly assimilate any of them...with the exception of "Aslan" of course... Try these on for size...

Hwin's wife....Hwinnyfred? ;-)

I chose Eveningstar because it is Ratsgnineve spelled backwards...

Not sure, but what could be so deplorable about a word undone by ringing someone up on Ma Bell? ;-) At the very least it does bear some resemblance to the way nuclear weapons didn't produce so much peace on earth as a deadlock? I am reminded of how the Soviet Union built strategic factories and...

I see what happened in Charn as a sort of cold war. Think of a cold war between two nuclear powers (not hard if you use your imagination...) Each side could destroy the others...it's like mutually assured destruction doctrines that kept the US and USSR fighting proxy wars in jungles like Vietnam...

Bottom line: He does not feel people have the right to be offended by weaponizing his breath. In other words, clean and tidy is for peasants that have a head to chop off and want the pleasure indefinitely postponed.

Every society has human rights. Some, like Belgium, invest those rights almost exclusively in individual people. Others, like China, invest those rights with the state, which must survive at all costs. So the question is, is the state great because it is made up of good people, or is it like...

Got a point there, Peep.