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Worldbuilding Wednesday 07/30/25: Narniaworld Waterpark (Narnia LXIX)

  After all this time I’ve realized I’ve never described the Narniaworld water park. The water amusement area was intended to be an integral adjunct to the greater park and was built at the same time. It is themed around the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. There is a separate admission fee or …

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Narnia Covers by M. S. Corley

I was so sure this edition of the Chronicles was real! That is, they were once for sale in a bookstore and over the decades eventually scanned and uploaded to the internet. Alas, they are not. These designs are the work of graphic artist M. S. Corley and were created in 2009, a date decades …

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Maugrim Mural

From the city of Belfast, C. S. Lewis’s birthplace. That’s Aslan in the distance. I’m guessing Maugrim is the black wolf.

Worldbuilding Wednesday 07/23/25: Names of the Seven Isles (Narnia LXVIII)

In the Chronicles the island group known as the Seven Isles did not receive much worldbuilding. Two of them were named: Brenn and Muil, and there was a city, Redhaven. That’s as much as we know. Some wikis say they under Narnia’s dominion the same way the Lone Islands were, but there’s no evidence from …

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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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