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Maugrim on Stage, Part 1

Although Maugrim — or Fenris Ulf, depending on your edition — is only a minor character in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe he takes greater importance in stage adaptations. In the play he serves as the White Witch’s right hand man and is the villain of the first major conflict, when he chases …

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Why I Hate Narnia as an Action Movie

Walden/Disney, I’m looking at you. I’m looking at all three of the Walden/Disney films mind you, but in particular The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe since it was the most popular one and the most influential. I figured I would talk about it now because a new Netflix Narnia series directed by Greta Gerwig …

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Two More French Flammarion Editions, 1980

Another two Narnia books from Flammarion, but under a different imprint: Du Chat Perche, or The Perching Cat, referring to, I suppose, cats’ habits of napping on the backrest or arm of the chair the reader is sitting in. These look like hardbacks, so maybe the series was split between the two imprints with the …

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Worldbuilding Wednesday 7/16/25: Perils of the Great Eastern Ocean, Part 2 (Narnia LXVII)

Here’s some more mythical sea perils that Lewis left out of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Or, as a reader suggested to me, might have inspired him. Part 1 is here. I also forgot a trope that relates to giant whirlpools. Which is — a trip to Atlantis! More than one pulpy story, comic …

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Collars

I think this photoshopped pic is hilarious, making visual allusions not only to the plastic hood of the witch’s sleigh, but also to her wardrobe with its immense fur hoods and the wide collar of her ice-blue gown.

Two French Flammarion Editions from the 1980s

Another entry in my series of French editions of the Chronicles. Here are books one and two side-by-side, published in the early 1980s. That is clear because the first is no longer titled Le Lion et la Sorcière Blanche but L’armoire Magique — The Magic Wardrobe. If you do a search on this title and …

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Worldbuilding Wednesday 7/9/25: Perils of the Great Eastern Ocean, Part 1 (Narnia LXVI)

The Voyage of The Dawn Treader has an episodic structure consisting of the many adventures Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace have while seeking the lost lords across the Eastern Sea. Many of them derive from myths, fables and earlier fairy tales, like the encounter with the sea serpent, the isle of the dragon, and the …

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Jadis and Her Sleigh, Part 3

The witch, in an unusual nostrils-up pose, pointing at an offscreen Edmund as if to say “And what, pray, are you?” as the dwarf pulls back the reins in surprise. A lot of action and attitude packed into one pic. Note the artist’s good use of black, white and red which differs from the usual …

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