The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

Yeah, it was Father Time. His contribution to the end of the world was to reach up, grab the sun and the moon, mash them together, and drop them into the sea.

He gave me the creeps as a kid. I can barely remember Tash but Time has always stuck with me.

edited 22nd Mar '16 6:15:57 PM by HamburgerTime

Narnia's cosmology just gets weirder as the series goes on. At first it's just a semi-generic fantasy world (almost a codifier of the idea, so I'll give it a pass there), then we find out the sun has mountains and valleys, and later on that birds fly back and forth from the sun every single day, so they can bring a single berry to a star who is currently living on some random island, then we find out the world is flat and one side connects directly to Aslan's Country (heaven), but we never hear what the other sides are connected to, oh and all the stars are people who move around in the sky to tell stargazers about the future, but there are apparently planets too, and Narnia has its own solar system (two planets are mentioned in Prince Caspian), but again, one side of the world is directly connected to Heaven. Oh, and it's in another dimension from Earth, and its timeline moves so quickly that it goes from being created to being destroyed in less than 100 years Earth time, and when it's destroyed all the innumerable stars fall to the surface and Father Time smooshes the sun and the moon together and what the hell C.S. Lewis, it was supposed to be just the Space Trilogy that got all the weird world building, not your fantasy with talking animals!

I am really wondering what the hell Narnia looks like from outside.

edited 22nd Mar '16 8:39:38 PM by Zendervai

One of those sides apparently connects to some Earth island in the middle of the ocean since the Telmarines had to pop out from somewhere.

C.S. Lewis and Tolkien argued quite a lot about their approaches to fantasy. Tolkien was a big details and internal consistency guy, pouring years of research about mythology, language construction, calendars, and national history while avoiding direct allegory. Lewis loved direct allegory and was also a Fantasy Kitchen Sink kind of guy who'd include everything from Greek gods to sewing machines in the same world. Tolkien actually got pretty angry about Lewis including Father Christmas in the Narnia-verse, criticizing how a figure from human myths exists in a world where humans appear to not exist.

edited 22nd Mar '16 8:53:08 PM by Tuckerscreator

There's a lampost in the middle of the forest and Santa is what Tolkien chose to criticize?

Though they were pretty good friends otherwise IIRC.

From what I recall they had a falling out over religious differences, but patched up and became friends again.

Wasn't Tolkein the person that converted Lewis to Christianity?

IIRC, yes, though weren't half of Tolkien's problems with Lewis were that, Lewis chose to be Anglican, with Tolkien upset he didn't become Catholic?

Protestant vs Catholic is definitely something that they might have fought over, yeah...

Anglican is more Reformed Catholic than Protestant and Lewis adhered to some Catholic traditions, but I digress.

It lives, it lives, etc. Joe Johnston is signed on to direct. So it will at least most likely be serviceable, I guess.

Alright, they've got a good director attached to the project, that's nice.

Shit, I really need to read the Narnia books again. It's been a little less than ten years since I'd read them.

Silver Chair and that leaves Horse and His Boy, Magicians Nephew, and the Last Battle.

I suppose if they had to, they cut cut out Horse and His Boy entirely, it has no relevance to the greater story besides setting up Calormen as antagonistic to Narnia. Magician's Nephew does have an important plot connection to the Last Battle though, the magic rings Eustace and Jill use to get to Narnia are created and hidden away in MN for later use.

I said this way earlier, but if they film TLB then dollars to donuts they do something about that ending.

Lewis' estate has now backtracked on soft-rebooting where they left off with Silver Chair, and is now instead planning a complete reboot overseen by Netflix, involving both movies and TV-series.

“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.” - Luke 14:28-30.

There will never be any Edmund except Skandar Keynes :(