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: Narnia
Worldbuilding Wednesday 7/2/25: A Calormene Feast (Narnia LXV)
In the Chronicles life in Tashbaan is presented as one of decadent, ostentatious luxury. That would include the foods on which the nobles dined. Lewis doesn’t mention which foods, with the exception of garlic and the cool sherbet Aravis and Shasta dream about when crossing the Great Desert. But we can infer from descriptions of …
Jadis and Her Sleigh, Part 2
Let’s look at some more depictions of the White Witch — Jadis — riding in her sleigh. This one, by Laura B. Hallett, is a doozy of bizarreness. The runners seem to be made of mammoth tusks, which seems appropriate for Narnia in its frozen state, and there’s two bald dwarves, a wolf in a …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 6/25/25: Narnia Big Cat Names (Narnia LXIV)
Though C. S. Lewis apparently had a hatred for small cats (look at Ginger’s fate in The Last Battle) he admired the larger species. Aslan was a lion, after all, and his attendants were leopards, panthers, and other (unnamed) species of big cats; a cat-a-mount is mentioned as being one of the statues in the …
Narnia French Editions, 1973
Last year I posted these two interesting French editions of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian from the early 1950s. Back then foreign publishers, once they acquired the rights, usually had their own artists create the covers, likely because it was too much bother to ship over the original artwork and …
The Lion, the Witch, and the IKEA Wardrobe
Cartoon by Andrew Birch. It wrote itself, don’t you think?
Tolkien vs. Lewis: Allegories
Webcomic by R. E. Parrish, who also did last Spring’s Tolkien world creation one.
Jadis and Her Sleigh, Part 1
Without bells, remember. It’s one of the most iconic images from the first book and also iconic to the Snow Queen story, which inspired Lewis to include it in the first place. Most artists don’t stray too far from the text. There’s a dwarf, at least two reindeer, and a luxurious sleigh which includes furs …
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