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  1. Benisse

    MLIN: My Life is Narnian

    Nice compliment, Copperfox! When friends post Narnia related memes to my FB page because they know I am a Narniafan... [May 9, 2021 update] Or when my daughter wrote a musical script for The Magician's Nephew for me for Mother's Dayearlier this month... MLIN (My Life Is Narnian)
  2. Benisse

    The Horse and His Boy - Logos Theater

    Horse and His Boy - Logos Theater Wow this play sounds amazing, Tirian! Thank you for the review!
  3. Benisse

    The Person Below Me VII

    TPBM thinks Freckles should do it. "Of course! Why ever not? TPBM owns Narnia related merchandise --or objects (but books don't count)-- of some sort." My husband and I bought the octagonal chess board used as a prop in one of the Chronicles movies for our anniversary a couple years ago...
  4. Benisse

    What's on your bucket list?

    If you made a list of things that you would really like to experience, see, or accomplish (before you "kick the bucket"/die) what are some of the items that would be on it?
  5. Benisse

    Happy Birthday, Jack!

    On November 29, 1898, Christian writer and scholar C.S. Lewis, one of modern Christianity's best-loved writers, is born in Belfast, Ireland. When Jack (his preferred nickname to Clives Staples!) was on earth, he was a conscientious correspondent, answering hundreds of letters from friends and...
  6. Benisse

    Narnia related books

    Nperera, Welcome to the forum :) I like the books you have chosen on this list. The full-length Companion to Narnia by Paul Ford resource is a treasure, and it won the 1983 Mythopoeic Award in Inklings Studies. I personally have not read many resources outside of Ford, but my husband used The...
  7. Benisse

    May 2 - Magician's Nephew Anniversary

    Since the Magician's Nephew is one of my favorite chronicles, when I saw a donut baking video featuring green and yellow rings posted on the May 2nd anniversary of the books publication date, I had to share it! Thank you Sarah Stutmann for your recipe and demo video -- well done!
  8. Benisse

    Contest 28: Gossip -- X monologues about Y

    Have any of you read "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning? In it one character talks about the portrait of another, that is of his unfortunate deceased wife. And unwittingly he paints a chilling picture of his crushing her lovely spirit. This contest --with a prize if there are a minimum of 5...
  9. Benisse

    the dwarves in the stable

    What do you think happened to the dwarves who thought they were in a stable at the end of The Last Battle? After the great door was shut, did that group of dwarves stay where they were, miserably stuck forever in the mental prison of their own creation?
  10. Benisse

    C.S. Lewis or Narnia-related Music

    Through a round about path starting from the 'February 28 Devotional' in the Biola University Lenten series <http://ccca.biola.edu/lent/2018/>, I have discovered The Oh Hellos who released their Dear Wormwood album in 2015. The title song is a letter from the human to Wormwood: "Dear Wormwood"...
  11. Benisse

    What was your childhood dream?

    What was your childhood dream? What are you doing today? -------------------- I'll go first. childhood dream: to be a ballerina, but when my parents gave me piano lessons instead of dance lessons, in high school I wanted to become a teacher today: I'm a volunteer (at church and in the...
  12. Benisse

    Everything But The Kitchen Sink

    [Anyone interested in creating a chain story, seeing that this thread is desolate? One person starts and then someone picks up the thread and continues the tale, and so on. Okay here goes--] I hate packing. No matter what, I always manage to forget something. But the time I forgot the...
  13. Benisse

    Real Presence

    My husband and I have weekly BFF dates that include comparing notes together after reading the same chapter of a certain book. This week we are about to start reading Leanne Payne's Real Presence: The Christian Worldview of C.S. Lewis as Incarnational Reality. Here is our schedule in case any...
  14. Benisse

    Congratulations to Glenburne our newest Admin!!

    The mysterious scourge of squirreldom, Glenburne (who is in fact a She) has graciously agreed to help with the administration of our TDL family. Let's welcome her with loud huzzahs and crashing cheese! or maybe just with a dignified marshwiggle stepdance.
  15. Benisse

    poems inspired by LWW

    Well the title of this thread is self explanatory. Take a character or scene from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and let it inspire your poetic muse. Then share your poem here. Illustrating it is encouraged but not required. To get us started, I'll share one from "What Happened about...
  16. Benisse

    what they got right

    Although there were many places in this movie that missed the mark (and even missed the original book!), there were some moments in Voyage of the Dawn Treader that were gems. For example, I loved the scene of with the painting with Eustace being so obnoxious, and the flooding of the room as...
  17. Benisse

    Project: Narnian Library

    Let's build a library to add to Tumnus' Is Man a Myth? If Reepicheep were to have written memoirs of Beruna or the history of talking mice, what would he have called it? What would Puddleglum's favorite recipe book be called? What book would a Dufflepud write? Or Mr. Cornelius, or -- (insert...
  18. Benisse

    >>SPOILER ALERT<<Les Miserables -- the Novel

    After loving the musical for years, finally I am reading the novel unabridged. Wow -- so expansive! What are some of your favorite scenes in Les Miserables that are NOT in the musical? SPOILERS ahead -- warning --
  19. Benisse

    Contest 27: Silver Chair Storyboard Art

    In honor of Joe Johnston formally being named director for The Silver Chair, a fresh start for another Narnia film trilogy, I am pleased to announce a new contest! Silver Chair Story Board Art Pick one of your favorite scenes from the book, and sketch, paint, or create a 2 to 3 panel...
  20. Benisse

    Charles Williams

    Have any of you read anything by Williams? Charles Williams was a close friend of Lewis and part of the Inklings' writing group. So one of my projects this year is to read through his novels. I liked Many Dimensions; I found the plot wild in a Keystones' Cops kind of way. Now I am reading...
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