From the city of Belfast, C. S. Lewis’s birthplace. That’s Aslan in the distance. I’m guessing Maugrim is the black wolf.
Category: Fantasy
Worldbuilding Wednesday 07/23/25: Names of the Seven Isles (Narnia LXIII)
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 …
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 …
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 …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 7/16/25: Perils of the Great Eastern Ocean, Part 2 (Narnia LXII)
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 …
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 …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 7/9/25: Perils of the Great Eastern Ocean, Part 1 (Narnia LXI)
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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