The Creation of Narnia

Hey here Daniel ( i have a couple of friends called Daniel but i don't think you're either of them!)
if you mean information about the creation of Narnia it's best to read the Magicians Nephew (MN) and the the info straight form the horses mouth, as it were hehe!
 
I just recently went to the library to take the first two books of the Narnia series home and I was so surprised because I didn't realize that The Magician's Nephew was considered the first book. Is this how C.S. Lewis intended it to be?

The creation of the world was so beautiful and I'm so ashamed at myself for not seeing how many religious parallels there were when I read through it. So beautiful to imagine Aslan's song which brought life and light into the world. I thought it was hilarious when the evil Queen ended up in our world and started causing chaos and having the whole town after her. It was so interesting to see the White Witch before she became the "White Witch" in the other books.
 
well it is when Narnia was created, so therefore it automaticaly is the "first" because otherwise there would be no Narnia. actually.. i do believe that MN was one of the later books that he wrote(is that right, everyone? i'm not sure.). but... yeah. i've lost my train of though. sorry.
 
For some reason, I've always loved Lantern Waste. I was watching the movie trailer for the movie, and I was so excited when I saw the lantern. :confused: I wonder how they could make a movie out of that, like how could they make Aslans song sound as beautiful as it is described? I find that idea quite difficult, I can't even picture the song, tune...etc. It just felt like I didn't need to hear it to know how amazing it must have been. These books are so deep, man.
 
Order

Dead Rain said:
what is that order? i never really knew.


order by numbers of the COR:
LWW
PC
VDT
SC
HHB
MN
LB

chronological (both our and Narnian time, I think, not sure if I'm right)
MN
LLW
HHB
PC
VDT
SC
LB
 
I think that the Magicians Nephew is the 2nd film that they should put out. I think it should go like this:
The Lion the Withc and the Wardrobe 1.
The Magicians Nephew 2.
Prince Caspian 3.
The Silver Chair 4.
Voyage of the Dawn Treader 5.
The Horse and His Boy 6.
and last but not least, you guessed it! The Last Battle comming in at # 7.
 
I agree mainly with your order but, I think it has to go LLW, PC, VDT, SC - mainly because if you leave too big gaps, the kids that are familiar to one or more story will have aged too much...
 
OK I'm re-reading MN so it's OK now. Post as many spoilers as you wish.

The creation was interesting. I think it's a little far off from the real creation, but no one REALLY knows how it went. The real creation I mean.
 
i agree with WHB,to me doing it that way magicians nephew 2 would bug me, and some people would may get confused aswell,this is my fave order
LWW
PC
VDT
SC
HHB
MN
LB
 
puddle_glum19 said:
i agree with WHB,to me doing it that way magicians nephew 2 would bug me, and some people would may get confused aswell,this is my fave order
LWW
PC
VDT
SC
HHB
MN
LB
Yes, I like this order best for the movies, too. This way, you get all the main adventures with Pevensies and Eustace first, then the nostalgic look at Narnia's creation, then the Last Battle, the end of Narnia.
 
Aslan’s creation of Narnia, singing it into existence:

“In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it…”

Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could possibly count. They were in harmony with it, but far higher up the scale: cold, tingling, silvery voices. The second wonder was that the blackness overhead, all at once, was blazing with stars. They didn’t come out gently one by one, as they do on a summer evening. One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out – single stars, constellations, and planets, brighter and bigger than any in our world. There were no clouds. The new stars and the new voices began at exactly the same time. If you had seen and heard it , as Digory did, you would have felt quite certain that it was the stars themselves who were singing, and that it was the First Voice, the deep one, which had made them appear and made them sing.

‘Glory be!’ said the Cabby. ‘I’d ha’ been a better man all my life if I’d known there were things like this.’

…Far away, and down near the horizon, the sky began to turn grey. A light wind, very fresh, began to stir. The sky, in that one place, grew slowly and steadily paler. You could see shapes of hills standing up dark against it. All the time the Voice went on singing…The eastern sky changed from white to pink and from pink to gold. The Voice rose and rose, till all the air was shaking with it. And just as it swelled to the mightiest and most glorious sound it had yet produced, the sun arose.

Digory had never seen such a sun…You could imagine that it laughed for joy as it came up. And as its beams shot across the land the travelers could see for the first time what sort of place they were in. It was a valley through which a broad, swift river wound its way, flowing eastward towards the sun. Southward there were mountains, northward there were lower hills. But it was a valley of mere earth, rock and water; there was not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass to be seen. The earth was of many colours: they were fresh, hot and vivid. They made you feel excited; until you saw the Singer himself, and then you forgot everything else.

It was a Lion. Huge, shaggy, and bright it stood facing the risen sun. Its mouth was wide open in song and it was about three hundred yards away.”
 
Thank you Maz for reminding us of this lovely description of the creation of Narnia :). This is one of the reasons why the Magician's Nephew is my favorite chronicle (although LWW and Last Battle are close seconds).
 
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