Happy Birthday Narnia!
“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis was first published on October 16, 1950… Exactly sixty-one years ago today!
To mark the occasion, we are inviting NarniaWebbers to share their first experience with Narnia. When did you discover it? What were your first impressions? How did you become such a big fan? Post your story in the comments section below. Also, check out this brief history of Narnia:
Here are some stories from the staff to start us off:
Tirian:
When I was about four years old I remember seeing “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” sitting on a table in our house. It was the old cover from the 70’s and it really captured my imagination. I really, really wanted to read the story but my parents said I was too young. I think they finally gave in when I was five. Growing up, LWW was one of the first “real” books that I read (well they read it to me) and I just loved it! It really set the stage for my love of literature and Narnia at a very early age.
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DiGoRyKiRkE:
I was bullied a lot in school, and so my Mom pulled me out and homeschooled me. I suppose I’d forgotten about that children’s story from so long ago, but one day, while in a Christian bookstore (around age 12 or so), I found the Narnia section. I hadn’t known that there were more books in the series, so I saved up my allowance for weeks so that I could buy a set, and what a change has been made in my life ever since.
Those books were there for me at a time when few other things were. I don’t think people realize just how much they lean on dreams, until they’re forced to wake up and see the harsh truth that life is a cruel place. Narnia was my dream for many many years. It got me through some hard times, put a smile on my face, and brought me to a place like NarniaWeb, which I truly couldn’t imagine living without.
MountainFireflower:
When I got older, I wondered what had happened after the adventures in LWW. At the end of the book, it had said there were more adventures, right? I wasn’t aware that there were more books, so I decided to write my own. I guess you could call them fan fiction. Thankfully, shortly after that, I discovered my dad’s old set of the Chronicles in our basement. And the rest, as they say, is history.
I love how the Chronicles, even though they are children’s books, are really still so relevant. They’ve been such a lovely part of my life, and as weird as it sounds, I’m thankful for Narnia and the way it’s impacted me.
glumPuddle:
One night in early 2001, I had a cold and was unable to sleep. So I got up, walked into the living room, and sat down. There, lying on the end table, was a box set of The Chronicles of Narnia (thankfully, they were in publication order). I casually picked up the first book, “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,” meaning only to look at the cover to fight boredom, and maybe skim the first page… Before I knew it, hours had gone by and I was still reading. I read the series twice that year. “Wow,” I thought,”These aren’t warm fuzzy kids books after all. They’re actually really good. They’re actually compelling.”
The books bring back the magic and sense of possibility of storytime, and I love Lewis’ ability to take deep concepts and express them very simply. Every time I go back and re-read the series, I see it from a different perspective. I do not think I became a huge fan of the books because they are great reads; I became a fan because they are amazing re-reads… and re-re-reads… and re-re-re-reads…
Only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia!
What’s your story? Post it below!
A I first read LWW, I thought " When I am older, I want to be just like Susan !". I often say to my best friend with who I did all these Narnian activities : "When I am younger, I want to be just like Lucy !". Seems that just like Lu found Aslan greater as she grew up, I find the books better every time I re-read them.They really are inspiring.
I first discovered Narnia when I was at least 5. My mum would let me dust the bookshelves and I always remembered seeing the 1970s version of the Narnia set sitting on the shelf. And I'm not sure why, but I would always sit and stare at the pictures wondering what was happening in the story. I had thought that the pictures were very strange actually. At the time my parents said I was too young to read them. I think I was about 8 when I actually got to read the books for myself. And then I was 12 when LWW came to theaters. I was so excited to see it! I've practiced my British accent ever since! I would try to dress like Lucy and would pretend I was with the Pevensies on their journey. And then "Prince Caspian" came out and that's when I really fell in love. The story was wonderful and exciting and the addition of Caspian was wonderful! I never enjoyed the "Prince Caspian" book, so the movie was a real treat! It's still my favorite movie of the series so far! My friends and I would act out scenes from the movies and I write stories putting myself into it. My mum even took me to the Narnia exhibition! It was one of the most exciting things ever!! And then "Dawn Treader" came out….that was my favorite book in the series so I was so excited to see the movie. It didn't turn out quite as I had hoped, but I love Narnia too much to not like it. I adore the actors the characters the costumes the sets! My dad took me to one of the Ice Palaces, so I got to see the live feed of Georgie Henley and Will Poulter!
Well now I'm 18 and I still pretend that I've been to Narnia. I still speak with a British accent and say lines from the movie when it fits the situation. I dream of being in one of the films someday. It's one of my biggest dreams. Bottom line is, I. Love. Narnia.!!
My best friend introduced me to it in August 2005. She practically forced me to borrow her Focus on the Family Radio Theatre set. I've been hooked ever since. I got the series a week and a half before the same friend and I planned on going to see LWW on it's third day in theatres. My original plan was to read MN and LWW before going to see the movie, but I ended up reading the whole series. Now, I make a point of reading through the entire series before watching a new Narnia theatre release and my friend and I watch previous Narnia films the night before we see a new one (so for PC, we watched LWW the night before and with VDT, we saw both LWW and PC).
My sister learned about the books before me. I remember watching a few of the BBC movies at a young age(this is so funny but I was actually afraid of the fake serpent in the Silver Chair. Years later, watching it again, I have to laugh). My sister was reading the books, listening to the Audio Focus on the Family, and I remember her wanting me to read the books.
Then the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe was coming. My sister was so very excited. When the long nine minute trailer came, I watched it over and over and over again. When I finally saw the movie, it enchanted me. It made a big impact on my life, the magic of it all. It was very special to me. Then I finally read the Magician's Nephew, and about two years ago I read the books. They are now very special to me.
I first found out about it through my Bff when i was 7. She saw LWW in theaters and loved and told me about it. And of course as suspicious as I was I was unconvinced. And then my mom showed me the books and I was somewhat interested. So i was basically forced to watch the movie and then I gradually started liking it and then a few years later I had basically forgotten about it and I was flipping through channels on TV bored and LWW popped on as a start off for PC. So I watched it and I was like "Wow this is better than I remembered!" So I made my mom take me to see PC (the clip of Reepicheep made me want to see it so bad!) and we ended up seeing it 3 times in theaters and I was immediately obsessed! I talked about it nonstop and read every book, bought all the DVD's,and I even dressed up as Lucy for Halloween! Then I also begged my dad to take me the the premiere for VDT and we ALMOST went but then Dads work schedule didn't clear so he couldn't take me 🙁 But I still have been in love with the movies, books and entire series! 😀
I saw the earlier movies when I was like seven, but wasn't quite "into" it.
When Walden Media and Disney came out with the "real" LWW, there was a coupon for movie tickets on the Cheerio box. So my Mom was like, "Hey we gotta go see that because of the coupon." We went to the theater and I was positively dumbstruck. I didn't know anything about CG at the time, and for a while wondered how they found a talking lion to play Aslan.
My family was the only people to see the last bit with Lucy and Professor Kirke. My dad was grinning from ear to ear about that!
I thought the movie was awesome. But I still wasn't "into" it. When it came out onto DVD, we got the collector's edition and watched it a bazillion times.
Then PC came out, and I was told that it was to Violent for me to see. Braving the odds, I watched it anyway. That was when Narnia became my favorite movie series of all time! I know I might not know near as much as other people do about Narnia, but in my family people are always asking me "now how did they do this?" "where did they film that?" or even "what does he mean by that?" I love it when I can give high-tec answers and comments that directors or stars said.
Then I found NarniaWeb. And I was on it like all the time! I feel kind of like VDT is my "baby" because I was here all through the making of it. But then, most of you have been here since LWW! But anyway, my sister made her and me Prince Caspian costumes. (I was Edmund and she was Peter) We wore the costumes to see VDT in theaters. We went twice, but the second time was better because it was in 3D.
As Ben Barnes would say at a time like this, "If you've come this far [through all of that reading] you have done /very/ well." 😀
I thought that it was funny that Warick Davis played in the BBC versions too! (fist he was Reepicheep then he played the owl in SC) He started off on the good side then went evil in PC, Walden Media version.
I was four years old. I had a HUGE imagination and lots of bad dreams at night. Most of them from tv or batman comic books. I was the youngest of 5 boys and my oldest brother would let me go sleep with him when I got scared. He started to read to me The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, and I was hooked. I didnt have bad dreams from this story, and he had to read it for school so we both benifited from it. He wasnt a big reader but read to me so he passed his class and I got addicted. We ended up going through the whole series. In 6th grade my dad bought me the whole set for getting good grades. I have read them all every year ever sense. I am now 32! Been obsessed for a long time!
Read them so that I could win a reading contest against my friend, Alex 🙂 LOVE THEM SO MuCH!!!!
My favorite aunt and uncle gave me a paperback copy of TLW&W for Christmas when I was about 12 or 13 years old and I immediately fell in love with it. I began exploring all the closets in my house and the woods nearby with an idea I might somehow find an entryway into Narnia. I did not know there were other books for a couple of years, when I found copies of Prince Caspian and all the others in the children's library shelf of our church one Sunday. I was so happy there was more, I devoured them all and have been re-reading them ever since. I am now 58. To my mind none of the film versions really do justice to the simple magic of these stories; they'd do better to start over and this time work harder at being truer to the originals.
Anyway, I watched the VDT when our friends bought it over when it first came out on DVD, and then I watched LWW, Then PC. I think that LWW is my favorite, both in the books and the movies!
what do you maen spear room(spare oom)
I posted this on youtube as well, but, anyway.
In the early 1980's, a Prince Caspian board game was released. I received this as a birthday present and at the same time I received the series of books. At the time I was too young to read, but my parents read them to me until I learned how to read. After that I did my best and they helped me with the big words.
No, these books belong to my mom, and she has had them since she was younger. She has not sold them, not have I. Although I know quite a few people who mark down things that strike them in books, especially in Narnia. 🙂
They made a PC board game in the 80s? I didnt know that…
Yah, Batman comics can get scary….
I don't remember where I first heard of LWW, but I remember seeing the BBC version in 5th grade and saying to myself "I remember this story! I love it!" So I probably saw it when I was little. I also remember when I was in first or second grade a little performing company came and performed it for us using only two actors (that was a pretty amazing feat, if you ask me). I've loved the story ever since I first heard about it. I also remember my younger brother checking the BBC version of LWW and PC&VDT out from the library and us watching it together (we also made fun of the poor effects and all that…). Funny thing is, I tried reading the book LWW in fifth or sixth grade and I didn't like the writing style and didn't finish it. So it wasn't until Walden Media came out with their version of LWW that I remembered how much I loved the story. I stumbled upon Narniaweb, decided to read the books, and became a fan. Since then I've bought the combined book of all seven books, as well as a pocket copy of MN. I think I read the books a little bit before or a little bit after LWW came out, though, because I remember doing a book report on HHB in seventh or eighth grade, which was about the same time the movie came out (I made it into a children's picture book!). Needless to say, I have been bitten by the bug and have been trying to convert people to it ever since. I recently took a C.S. Lewis class a couple of semesters ago and have become a fan of the rest of Lewis's works as well. I have also read MN and part of HHB to my younger siblings (they didn't want to read LWW or PC because they had seen the movies…so sad! I'll eventually convince them…).
Spear room? No he said spare oom, you know, like Mr. Tumnus.
narnia12345, I take it you haven't read the book yet. The wardrobe Lucy goes through to get into Narnia is in a spare room, and when she tells Mr. Tumnus this he thinks she's talking about the city of War Drobe in the land of Spare Oom.
You havent read the book? Have u seen the movie?
You had a nice older brother.
I first discovered Narnia through the BBC movies. I was with my Mom at the library when I was about six and I remember her pulling The Silver Chair off the shelf and saying that this was a movie based of a children's book by a Christian author and I might enjoy it. So I competely fell in love with the series backwards! From movie to book and from the back to the front. 🙂
Later my older sister got the series for her birthday and read them to me. We enjoyed the BBC movies as children and the Focus on the Family radio theatre version. The most wonderful thing about the series is how it has grown with me. Now that I'm a young adult it is still as relevant (although in a different way)to me today as it ever was! Oh the special memories. 🙂
The first time I was really exposed to the "Chronicles of Narnia" was new years 2000. I had received them (box set) as a Christmas gift but I didn't get around to reading them until a bit later. I was at my aunt's house in Florida visiting for a whole week with my family and there wasn't much to do. I was an avid reader so I read about one book a day. Since then they have been my most cherished series and I often re-read them or listen to the radio dramas. I often think about the themes though even now that I half way through my 20s. I think my favorite book might be "The Last Battle" however it does change quite frequently. For me I think about them most when I go traveling (mission trips) because I can relate to all the uncertainty and adventure the characters go through but in the end it is life changing. Since then I have also branched out into reading some of C.S. Lewis' other books too. Now I've been sharing and passing the "Chronicles of Narnia" to my 10 year old brother.
Oh and as a side note, I lived in a big manor house in the English country-side for a whole year and my firends and I checked ever single wordrobe we could find…
I was in the second grade and my class was watching the animated movie, but at the time I didn't realize it was the Narnia story. It wasn't really until third grade when my reading class was starting to read it together when I started to pay attention and as a class we were listening in on the movie updates, but I was the only one to start to have an obsession in the class. Since then I have been the biggest Narnia geek.
johobbit mentioned the source of my introduction to Narnia, namely "The Roar of Love" by the 2nd Chapter of Acts. I had been a big fan of the group for several years and when this album was released (some two years after it was originally recorded due to licensing issues with the Lewis estate) I was immediately drawn into Narnia. From my first reading some thirty years ago until this very day it has been my favorite work of literature ever. Not to mention Jack being my favorite author! The song "the Roar of Love" has been one of my favorite "jam with the stereo" songs ever, with the exquisite guitar work of Phil Keaggy. I love how Lucy is the epitome of how one should love Christ.
In the summer of 2008, my parents bought the movie. After the movie, I was so touched! I cried cause it was sad and stuff. In 2009, I read the book, and I felt the same way as the time I watched the movie. Even now, my friends and I would make a really big deal about it, even though we were too old to read fairy tales.
My first experience with Narnia started with The BBC movie LWW & the animated version as a child. I waited every year to watch it. And my friends and I were so excited to walk through the wardrobe each and every time! <3
I remember when The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe trailer was shown and it came out about a month after I seen it. At first, I thought it looked rather dumb, shocking I know!! Then, it was shown on Disney Channel one night and I decided "hey, why not give it a chance?". Watched it, and loved it! Then 2 years later, I saw the trailer for Prince Caspian and I was like "wow, another Narnia movie" then saw that it was a series of books! So, before seeing Prince Caspian, I read all the books and became a big fan! I'm no Christian I'll be honest, but I love books and movies that have fantasy and magic in them. =)
I first exposure to Narnia was in 2005 with the release of the Disney/Walden LWW movie. I am an engineer who never bothered with fantasy, no Narnia, no Potter, no LOTR. Something about the teaser trailer caught my eye, and I saw the movie. I was age 59 and was immediately hooked. I have since read all the Narnia books many times. I have read many of Lewis' other works, I love The Great Divorce. I enjoyed reading the Potter and LOTR books. I enjoyed the Golden Compass series. It all started with the LWW movie in 2005. In a way it has changed my perspective.
I read LWW in the fifth grade (2001)…in fact, my whole class had to read it as a reading requirement. A few years later, the first Narnia movie was released and I loved it! Edmund became my favorite character (thanks to Skandar)!
Happy Birthday Narnia! I started my adventure through the magical world of Narnia at the age of 3,I being me loved reading books and I visited my grandparents house over the summer and foundall the books on their shelf.I decided to start with the LWW and slowly I felt myself falling in love with Narnia.Now each time I read it,I fall in love once again.I loved Narnia and when I saw the Narnia trailer for the LWW I was so excited.I thank till this day C.S.Lewis, Andrew Adamson and all the other cast and crew behind Narnia,thank you for bringing the light of my dreams to life.I will be sure to pass on these treasured stories to my children and generations to come.They are simply amazing.
When I was around 14, my pastor loaned me his Narnia books and I was immediately hooked. I more than loved them; they really changed by life by changing my perspective on Christianity. These books opened up my imagination and ultimately has enlarged both my understanding and my faith by introducing me to C.S. Lewis, whose other writings as well made me see life, faith, heaven, hell, etc. through a new lense and has challenged many of my asssumptions. No other contemporary writer has had such a profound influence on me. I find more truth in his fantasies and science fiction than I have in the books and movies that are deemed more realistic.
The earliest read aloud I remember doing with my siblings was The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. We also went through the BBC films, Focus on the Family's radio Narnia and the most recent Narnia Films, but the books remain a favorite. The kind which every time you read it you gain new insight.
I started my journey in Narnia before I can remember! My mother read me the books when I was REALLY little. I have grown up with the books and the Focus on the Family radio drama. I have basically been raised in my christian faith by using them. They installed me desire for fantasy. Now I am a big fan of LOTR, Binding of the Blade, but nor Harry Potter. My family beliefs do not allow me to read Potter.
At the age of 4 or 5, one night my parents were watching a film about the life of C.S. Lewis. I couldn't sleep so I went to the living room and they let me watch a bit too. I only saw one scene where Lewis' shows a kid a big dark room in the cellar. It was all dark but one lighted staircase that was very long, straight and led to a big misterious looking wardrobe. That's the only image I can remember. When I was about seven my nanny read every evening she looked after me and my younger brother a chapter of "The Magician's Nephew". It really fascinated me and it dragged me into the world of Narnia. When she read about the wardrobe made out of the apple cores from the tree of knowledge, I rememered the image of the wardrobe. That really captured me and I wanted to know more of Narnia. After that, I heard that there was a film about the second book. So I went to the theatre and viewed Adrew Adamson's Adaption of LWW. I loved the film so much that I watched it four times in the cinema. After that, I read all the book and loved every page of reading them. These books and films have over and over again given me new joy for the stories in the bible but also inspired me for my live as a follower of christ. These books have taught me a lot about faith, how Aslan (Jesus) is and has also given me a love for literature. Thanks God for Jack and all the people who brought the narnia films to live! Long live Aslan! Greetings from Switzerland
I grew up with the BBC Narnia Series so I don't really remember the first time I saw them. They're kind of like Star Wars; they've always been there. My mom read The Magician's Nephew to my sister and me a long time ago. I tried to read it first but I lost interest and only read a few chapters. After the Prince Caspian movie came out, and I was 10, I read the PC book and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I really liked VDT but I didn't keep reading the rest of the books. Once The VDT movie came out I read them all in publication order and then I became a huge Narnia fan and joined the fansites. I now wait anxiously for the next film…"how ever long it will be."
I was about 8 and I was in the school library. I noticed LWW book with a film cover and I borrowed it. My mum read me and my sisters the books and I got the whole series at Christmas. We wanted to watch the film and we did. We saw PC later and I researched it on Wikipedia. I learnt there were different films and saw them on Youtube. Narnia was my obsession for few years but my sisters hate it now!
It was 1972 and I had just turned 13 when an old family friend gave me a late Birthday Gift, a used set of seven books, he had picked up from a second hand book store. I thought this was a really great gift because I loved books and thou he was not a very rich man I knew he had spent a whole lot of money for the the gift considering his circumstances. I excitedly dug in and he and I had long conversations about each book as I finished it. It was a wonderful time.
Yep, you're right! I think seven was the perfect number, and I'm glad he didn't go on for a hundred books *cough, modern fantasy writers, cough* He leaves plenty of things to our imagination, and fills in just the right amount 😀
My first experience with Narnia was the animated feature of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by Bill Meléndez and the Children's Television Workshop, 1979. I was six years old and my young imagination shot up into the stratosphere. I was always stepping into wardrobes and expecting to find my way into Narnia just like Lucy did.
My first exposure to Narnia was when I was 8 or 9 and was looking through a local christian book store and saw the Last Battle in audio drama by focus on the family. Not Realizing it was a series, i bought the CDS and listened to them when I got home. I of course did not understand it, so I got MN and from there was hooked;)
my first introduction to Narnia was when i was about 8 in fourth grade. we were reading the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but i didnt get into it and was slightly apart with what was going on (i cant really remember exactly what had gone on). then in 2005 i went with my family and cousins to go see LWW movie, of which my brother was very very excited about and i had no idea why he was so excited about this movie. after i watched the movie, i was hooked. i was so in love that i went bounding to my brother, asking what this amazing story was. thats when he told me all about Narnia, and then he gave his big edition (the one where its all one big book with all seven chronicles in it) and told me to read them. and i think i finished all of them within a month or so, i was so into it. and i tell you, it was probably one of the most exciting and happiest moments of my life, and i truly believe it was the beginning of the inspiration to become a writer just like the one who wrote Narnia, just like C.S. Lewis 🙂
The earliest read aloud I remember doing with my siblings was The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. We also went experienced the BBC films, Focus on the Family’s radio Narnia and the most recent Narnia Films, but the books remain a favorite. They definitly superseed any christian fantasy I know of. thank you C.S.
i remeber when my third grade teacher read me the book i feel in love with the series from that point on. then the movie came out!!! which made me a even bigger fan of the series…. and after watching the movie like a thousand times i then wanted to be an actor!! thank u NARNIA!!
I was actually in my late teens, I heard they were making LWW into a movie and so, for some unknown reason, I decided to read the book and compare it to the movie just for fun.
Before then, I had some exposure to LWW and HHB. I vaguely remember watching the animated movie as a small child and being confused. lol
Note that I HATED reading growing up. Only a rare few books did I ever feel compelled to read all the way through. After reading LWW, I read the rest of the books from the library. If I remember correctly, because of the availability of some of the books, I think I ended up reading The Magician's Nephew last? I may have waited for till others were read before I read the Last Battle though.
Anyway, my first experience reading the books were great. On a family vacation to a cabin in Tennessee, I read PC and HHB.
Long story short, after reading LWW, I was hooked!
I watched the first movie and loved it! I'm not sure if it's very close to the book in terms of themes, but I still love it.
Eventually, I heard there was a radio theater version of the books by Focus on the Family, and I listened to all of them. And I LOVED them as well. Every so often I listen to one of the books again. Narnia will always be a series that I enjoy. It never seems to get old.
I remember I first read The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe for a reading book when I was in fourth grade. It soon became my favorite book and then I read all the series every summer. And then the movie came out next year and soon became my favorite movie. Happy Birthday Narnia!
So, glumPuddle, your grandfather taught about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, AND Charles Williams. Hmmm…you haven't by any chance heard of the "Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica" books, have you?
Mine and my siblings introduction to Narnia was pretty basic: our mom heard they were good books, so she started reading them aloud to us, and we got hooked. Interestingling, so far Narnia is the only book-series-made-into-movies that we discovered before the movies came out (not counting the old BBC ones, of course).
I read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe last year in the summer of 2010, and I really enjoyed it, I read the Narnia Chronicles all in Chronological order so I did read Magician's Nephew first and went in order of the Chronicles in which C.S. Lewis wanted them. I had watched the movie, and was impressed and then watched it again and fell in love because it was true to the book. I did watch the BBC ones but it wasn't as good as what Walden Media & Walt Disney had done. I love it to this day and will for the rest of my life. I just wish one of my teachers in school would have told me about this when I was younger. I read this after I graduated High School and I was 19. I am now 20 and I was just introduced to this last summer.
Happy birthday narnaia!!!!
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My first experience was in second grade when I believe we read the book but I know we watched the BBC version of LWW and my teacher revealed to us about Disney adapting the book into a movie. I remember seeing it in the movie theaters with my mom but I was little so the battle scene scared me and we had to leave but I saw it a second time in the theaters and loved it, mainly because William Moseley is my all-time largest crush ever. And mainly the reason I became obsessed with Narnia. Just last year I read all seven books and fell in love with them. I really wish Walden Media still had their contract and could begin filming the next Narnia movie now because whichever one they decide to make next will most likely be amazing like all the rest.<3
My first experience with Narnia was when I watched the animated version by Children's Television Workshop. I saw it when I was…I don't know…probably around seven.
The animation in the thing is terrible, but it's very faithful to the book, and has an extremely memorable (if irritatingly synthesized) soundtrack.
Lewis's genius shone through the humble production, and I was enchanted like I have never been enchanted before. I was inspired to read the books, and the rest is history.
I still love the little flick that introduced me to Narnia, even if it is cheap, and even if the Disney version is better in almost every respect. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
Seeing part of it for the first time a while back nearly brought tears to my eyes. 🙂
Ha ha! Me too.
I think I read C.S. Lewis’ biography in late 2000. I was only 13 years old, but I felt somehow connected to Jack and his view of the world, so I wanted to see what the Narnia books were about and read all of them. I absolutely loved them. It’s hard to describe what I felt when I was reading them, but they changed completely the way I see the world, Christianity and even my relationship with God. So yeah, I think I could say the Narnia books changed my life.
i read narnia books but didn't believe in the series or films
but now i have seen the films and read the books
must say that i am a narniafreak
My first exposure to Narnia was when I was in second grade. My teacher got us tickets for the whole class to see a high school presentation of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. To get us familiar with the story she read the book and went to the play a week after finishing it. It was super cool and I was in love with the series ever since.
I had heard of the books for years and thought they were for little kids. When LWW came out I saw the movie and liked it.
Next, I noticed the series was on sale at Target in the Young Adult section. I bought Prince Caspian and read it first as it was to be the next movie at the time. Then VDT and so on until I had read them all and loved them and found that they were not just for little kids.
Then I discovered how great rereading them is as glumPuddle mentioned. 🙂
I remember in 5th grade one of our assigned literature books was LWW. It was the only lit. book I actually enjoyed reading. While my teacher read it to us, I would read on my own and ended up finishing it weeks before the class did. On the last week of school, we watched the movie. I was breathtaken. Later, my Mom took my brother and I on a surprise trip to see PC in theaters. When I realized there were more books, I checked them out at the library and read them all within a month. I've been rereading them ever since.