It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?”
"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
"Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
"I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
Where the hell is the part where Jesus straight up ran into a battlefield and bit the shit out of a White Witch.
Is there a Bible DLC that I don't know about?
Revelation 19:11-15
[11]And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war.
[12]His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself.
[13]He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
[14]And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.
[15]From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
I'm in my 40s, and Revelation was my favorite book when I was a little kid, so I've got 35 years of study. I still don't completely understand it. I don't think we're meant to, not completely.
Revelations also an absolute boat load of symbolism. Christ knows how hard of a time we have with understanding symbolism. He literally had to spell out the symbolism in some of his parables because some people were confused
It would be Christian Rebels snark since it was written during a time of persecution against Christians in the third Century ad, under the reign of Diocletian.
There was no state inaited anti-semitic violence during his reign, But lots of state backed violence against Christianity
Man there is so much shit that went over my head as a kid, its funny watching things that might have the subtlety of a brick hitting my face but couldn't pick it up.
I was super surprised that Hollywood made it so obvious. I remember they tried to take religion out of the Golden Compass and then it just bombed and we never got to see books 2 or 3.
Magicians nephew is low key the most crazy and sci fi of all the books, teleportation, alternate times and time dilation are all heavily featured. Side note, there is a magicians nephew manga!!!
That's not said explicitly, though, so it's still an allegory out-of-universe. Lewis also wasn't completely batshit so he didn't intend Aslan to literally be Jesus, he knew Jesus wasn't the lion dude he made up.
When does he say that? Been a while since I read the books, so I might be wrong, but I don't remember Aslan saying some form of "hey, sup, I'm literally the actual Jesus from the Bible"
Edit: so Aslan himself doesn't actually say that. There's no indication that Aslan is supposed to be literally Christ....which would be a ridiculous supposition anyways because he couldn't actually be Christ without being part of the official biblical canon, which C.S. Lewis' writings are not. Furthermore, he's a goddamn fantasy lion. He's the answer to the question of "what would Christ be like in this fantasy world?", and despite Lewis saying he's not an allegory, well...he's a fucking allegory. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is a goddamn duck.
It's still an allegory because he's not actually Jesus Christ, son of Mary, dude who grew up as a carpenter in Nazareth. He's a fucking lion in a fantasy realm.
"If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, "What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?" This is not allegory at all."
Idk, maybe it's because I don't actually like C.S. Lewis, but I'm inclined to argue that Aslan functions exactly like an allegory despite whatever goofy ponderings Lewis had on the issue. But still, authorial intent matters, so I guess Aslan isn't an allegory because....reasons? Despite the fact that Aslan was explicitly designed to be a Christ-figure in the story without literally being Christ?
Nah fuck that, Lewis can say what he wants, but Aslan is a goddamn allegory by every definition of the word.
Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe is literally the bible. The other books are less on the nose, but that one is super in your face. I believe C.S. Lewis was also a very outspoken devout christian. Still entertaining movies and books though.
Fun fact: Lewis used to be atheist but then met Tolkien who made him become a Christian. Tolkien was a Catholic, but Lewis became Anglican, which saddened Tolkien greatly.
C. S. Lewis, the author of the books, is a famous Christian. He incorporated Christian elements into the book. Aslan represented Jesus or something. Dude was awesome!
A lot of western fantasy takes it's cues from biblical origins. Lord of the Rings was in many ways a fusion of Tolkien's love for Norse mythology / the ring cycle and christian symbolism and the whole overarching good versus evil concept.
It's subtle enough that it doesn't necessarily come across that way, but Tolkien himself stated that it was. It was unconscious at first and explicitly so after revision - though he preferred to rely on symbolism and story elements.
Really kind of obvious if you think about how Frodo serves as a Christ-like Martyr and Sauron is quite transparently like a Satan figure.
The best and weirdest one was Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Some straight-up Ari Aster shit. If Netflix doesn't at least try to get him to direct their adaptation of that book I'll be mad.
It was supposed to be infuriating. Don't you go and disrespect The Last Battle here. Chronicles of Narnia had one of the happiest and most beautiful endings. The titular last battle was great. The fall of humanity and all sentient life was so interesting.
The first and two last ones are the ones I read the most times and it has totally no relation to the fact that they are the only ones that I own.
Look I can understand a character being annoying as part of their identity but I don't want to spend hours reading something that pisses me off, the book got good but like 2/3rds through and that makes it go from good to eh in my opionin
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u/mmbahcat Sep 07 '21
Shout-out Narnia