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The first novel I have read of the Chronicles, I saw the cartoon and read most of the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe. I ejoyed it very much, was very fun and easy to read. Had a nice magic to it, i'm hoping my mom got me the rest of the series for Christmas!

A few questions though, who put the bell there for Janis to be awaked?

Who made the rings in the first place? It wasn't the Uncle was it? I seemed to have missed something there. Didn't he find them like he found the dirt from the "other world"?

How did they wind up in Narnia if they went into the right pool? Did they pick a wrong pool?

Last off I don't think this should be read first. Yeah this explains how Narnia came to be but I think it shouldn't be read first, because it has nice suprises to those who have read LWW.
 
i will try to answer these questions. someone please correct me if i am wrong (since i am new to the world of Narnia).

about the bell.. after the white witch and her sister battled in charn, the white witch spoke the deplorable word which killed everyone but herself. she then went into an eternal sleep unless someone came along and used the bell to wake her.

about the rings.. remember in the story when uncle andrew is telling the story of his fairy godmother and how she was dying? she sent him to get a box from a secret drawer from her house. he never took it to her, instead he kept it for himself but didnt open it for many years. when he finally opened it he found only dust from 'another world'. he then made the dust into rings. this is how the rings came about.

about the pool.. digory took everyone into the wrong pool (i think). he thought that it was the pool that would lead them back to charn but once they arrive, they soon realize it was not charn but narnia..

hope this helps!
 
You're right, chr1zis - it was Jadis who put the bell there herself. And it was Uncle Andrew who made the rings, using the dust his godmother left him.

How they wound up in Narnia confused me for years, until I read the narrative very carefully. When Digory grabbed Jadis' heel in London and touched his yellow ring, they all "transported" (or whatever you call it) to the Wood between the Worlds. Then remember that Strawberry, who was all in a lather, walked to the nearest pool to get a drink. He never got his drink, because Digs and Polly immediately hit their green rings, which took them down through the pool in which Strawberry was standing - which happened to be Narnia. Happenstance, or horse's choice, if you can use those term when Aslan is involved.

I agree with you about publication order, as do many others on this forum. Nephew is best read as a flashback.
 
Ite said:
The first novel I have read of the Chronicles, I saw the cartoon and read most of the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe. I ejoyed it very much, was very fun and easy to read. Had a nice magic to it, i'm hoping my mom got me the rest of the series for Christmas!

A few questions though, who put the bell there for Janis to be awaked?

Who made the rings in the first place? It wasn't the Uncle was it? I seemed to have missed something there. Didn't he find them like he found the dirt from the "other world"?

How did they wind up in Narnia if they went into the right pool? Did they pick a wrong pool?

Last off I don't think this should be read first. Yeah this explains how Narnia came to be but I think it shouldn't be read first, because it has nice suprises to those who have read LWW.
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'm currently reading this..Right now i'm on the creation of narnia..I like it so far..
 
Yes, well, I disagree. I believe that Magician's Nephew explains what happened to the tree that was made into the wardrobe, and you also get a warm welcome from Digory, who becomes the Professor. It was nice to meet him again! In reading books, you need things explained (or else I do) and you get a smoothness going into the book. That's what I like to have.
 
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Yes, well, I disagree. I believe that Magician's Nephew explains what happened to the tree that was made into the wardrobe, and you also get a warm welcome from Digory, who becomes the Professor. It was nice to meet him again! In reading books, you need things explained (or else I do) and you get a smoothness going into the book. That's what I like to have.
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I don't know, lioness. I liked meeting Digory again as a little boy in MN, after only seeing him briefly in LWW as the grizzled old professor, it was a nice surprise.
 
Here's the order in which I read the books (note: read is present, not past... I have a plan to read them constantly for fun :D)

TL,TW,TW
Prince Caspian
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Horse and his Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

I don't know why I chose to switch around THAHB, TMN, and VotDT... it just seemed to happen. I'm growing on the order; I may read it in order suggested by the books but I probably won't find it as interesting... yeah their books and books all say the same thing but it's something about that order that makes them more interesting if you know what I mean. :)
 
I forget exactly what the publication order is. I believe it is:
LWW
PC
VDT
SC
HHB
MN
TLB

But i may have HHB and MN mixed up in order, they are 5th and 6th, anyway, and this is the order I think the books should be read. I don't like having MN as the first book. It takes away some of the wonderment and surprise from LWW if it is second.
 
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