This pic was from an ad campaign for the North Caroline Zoo. But it could be applied to Aslan as well … and one’s faith if you want to go meta.
Tag: C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis Keycard
Graduate Hotels specializes in lodgings near universities and college campuses — Princeton, Annapolis, New Haven, and the like. Its rooms use keycards shaped like facsimilies of student IDs of notable graduates or professors. This Graduate Hotel, near Oxford, includes one of C. S. Lewis, even though student IDs didn’t exist in his time. Pretty neat …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 6/11/25: What’s New in Narniaworld for 2025 (Narnia LVII)
It’s been a whole year since Narniaworld, the theme park and resort based on C. S. Lewis’ famous book series, was introduced to the public on this blog. Let’s see what new features and activities are planned for this summer. Previous Narniaworld posts are here. Narniaworld, Part 1 (Food) Narniaworld, Part 2 (Rides) Narniaworld, Part …
Beren and Luthien, Egyptian Style
One of the First Age tales in The Silmarillion is how Luthien, an elf, falls in love with Beren, who is human, and aids him in his quest to recover the three Silmaril jewels from Morgoth. This part of The Sil has a more fairy tale flavor than the rest of the book, involving overt …
The Giant’s Causeway
For a long time (ever since I read the book at 11 or 12 in fact) I’ve wondered if C. S. Lewis, a native of Ireland, ever visited The Giant’s Causeway and received inspiration from it to create the titanic stone bridge over the River Shribble. As you remember, Puddleglum, Jill, and Eustace crossed it …
Wardrobe Warnings
She immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them, leaving the door open, of course, because she knew that it is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe. She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself …
All Aboard! Images from the Golden Age of Rail Travel [Review]
All Aboard! Images from the Golden Age of Rail Travel by Lynn Johnson & Michael O’Leary Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1999 If you were a graphic artist in the 1980s and 1990s Chronicle Books of San Francisco was your crack, publishing tons of art, art history, design and architecture books every. All were beautifully designed …