Talk:The Chronicles of Narnia

Create article. I love these books. i have read each like 4 times. so cool. their not as heavy as The Lord of the Rings so it is so mmuch easier to read and they are just as enjoyable as The Lord of the Rings. --Will N. 18:26, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

Consider mentioning CS Lewis's original order for the novels, and the re-published order (in time for the release of the feature film)? Also, I think the referents for some of the references (ie, which figure is Mohammed in Last Battle) should be made explicit. DunsScotus 14:29, 28 March 2007 (EDT)

I read the books 3 times. I regard them as Christian allegory. If there is a bona fide reference to Mohammed, I'd like to know about it. But not written as speculation. --Ed Poor 18:27, 28 March 2007 (EDT)

That sounds very speculative. MountainDew 18:36, 28 March 2007 (EDT)

Whether The Chronicles of Narnia is allegory or not I should like to point out that Lewis is not God. He didn't really know everything that was going to happen so anything about Muhammed in the Chronicles (especially The Last Battle) is purely guessing and fictional literature. That would make it speculations of speculation (confusing.) --User:Additioner, 25 April, 2007

Narnia as Bible stories? (Allegory)

While the strong Christian undertones (and true identity of Aslan) are unmistakeable, I think that claiming that the books are a straight retelling of the Old and New Testaments is rather stretching it.--M 20:18, 7 April 2007 (EDT)

I agree with M. It does have many similarities with the Bible. These are definitely christian books but to say that they are straight retellings is not quite true. Could this be changed in some way? --User:Additioner 14:02, 16 April 2007

Right, I agree. Its definitely not a "re-telling" of the Bible, and not even a true, straight up allegory. Some of the stuff (Especially in LWW) was obviously intended to be allegorical, some other stuff was obviously based on the Bible, but not strictly allegorical, and all placed with a lot of fiction. I made some changes to the beginning to imply these different facts about the biblical and allegory stuff. As I may be wrong, and going with the whole Wiki method of working, feel free to revise the stuff I revised. Mskreuz 18:11, 17 June 2007 (EDT)

C.S. Lewis' Name?

I don't want to contradict somebody, but is it really Clive Sinclair Lewis? Anything I've ever read said "Clive Staples Lewis". Is this right.Mskreuz 12:52, 31 May 2007 (EDT)

You are absolutely right it is Clive Staples Lewis. `Additioner 14:00, 31 May 2007 (EDT)

Ah, cool! I wonder where that did come from. That's rather weird, that somebody would make that mistake. Oh well... Mskreuz 14:45, 31 May 2007 (EDT)

They probably mixed his name up with that of Clive Sinclair. - JasonAQuest 17:20, 12 January 2008 (EST)

Or Sinclair Lewis... Human 18:12, 17 September 2008 (EDT)

Our World/Narnia

Not to be rude, but when you switched our world and Narnia, you totally missed that. They are adults in Narnia, and return to our world, not become adults in our world, and go back to Narnia as kids. That totally contradicts the book. Just something I noticed. Mskreuz 15:08, 7 July 2007 (EDT)

Religious Criticisms

It is just my opinion, but the religious criticisms are rather long and overly specific. The arguments probably should be summarized quickly or they should be fewer. I also think they rely over-much on an allegorical interpretation of the Chronicles and sometimes in little details. I don't think it's completely allegorical, although there are allegorical parallels. Sometimes the arguments (such as that last one on celibacy) is incredibly weak. I think it should be altered or moved to a debate page, where the arguments can be examined and discussed. (However, I'm glad the author of these critics was careful about how he placed the arguments and gave it a section.) -Additioner 15:48, 30 December 2008 (EST)

Thank you for the compliments. I wrote some of the criticisms because there are Christians who see these books as a perversion endorsing magic. Instead of stating this in such explicit terms, I tried to convey some of the specific issues we have with the books without explicitly calling them a false allegory intended to lead children astray. Listing a handful of criticisms is, I think, a compromise between those who see Narnia as a loose retelling of Christian cosmology and those who see it as a way to pervert a child's image of Christ, The Trinity and reality in general.--AlexC 23:11, 11 January 2009 (EST)