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It takes guts to make a whole channel dedicated to Narnian lore. Lewis created much but explained very little, unlike his colleague Tolkien who wrote entire epics detailing Middle Earth. While it would be fun to have Middle Earth levels of lore in Narnia it would kind of ruin the whole point of the stories. Narnia is a simple beautiful world with simple beautiful stories. Each masterfully designed to appeal to the young and young at heart and I really wouldn't have it any other way. Here's to the start of a great channel
Well, NOTR sets the bar pretty high. Not sure if I'll ever get there but we'll all have fun and tell some great stories in the meantime. Thanks for the encouragement!
@@IntotheWardrobe When I was a child, my mom would read me the books in the only correct order, that is: starting with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". However, now I decided to read "The Horse and His Boy", because that's the part I remember the less. After that I'm going to read the other books, probably in the traditional order.
Very nice start for the channel. We don’t have enough youtubers talking about lore of Narnia. Tolkien’s world is like very historically grounded while Narnia is more like landscape of the soul which makes it refreshingly unique.
I think it would be really interesting to look at Cair Paravel. It's mentioned frequently, but we spend very little time in the actual place. Was it built by King Frank? How did it get the name? Neither Jadis nor Miraz, though they claim the throne, live there. The Pevensies are crowned there, and they live there for a while, then it falls to ruin when they leave Narnia (and is apparently inspired by a ruined castle in Ireland). Caspian and later Rilian live there, but no mention of when or how it gets rebuilt after Caspian's coronation. Jill and Eustace spend one night there. Tirian sends Roonwit the Centaur there with a message in TLB, but it quickly fills up with conquering Calormenes. In 2555 years, we don't really see much of the place, despite how important it is.
I grew up watching the movies over and over again and I finally decided to pick up the books for the first time as an adult. So glad I found this channel to help me explore the very immersive Narnia world!
i just recently got Narnia on Audio, (i used to listen to it as a kid) and i was amazed that C.S. Lewis wrote a multiverse. seems so ahead of his time.
I love this channel, it is so awesome. Narnia means a great deal to me and I absolutely love the books. Keep up the great work; hope to see more in the future.. 😁👍
Great job setting the stage for readers to better picture the world of Narnia. I love your passion and dedication, and your intros and conclusions leave me ready to watch more.
Hey! I'm so excited by this channel! I love lore channels, and this has everything I love! I loved how you presented the map and the highlighting. I look forward to watching more!
Just found you today and watched all your episodes on Narnia. Great job on this and cant wait for more. Honestly Chronicles of Narnia so vast you could right your own stories into it during certine time frames of its history.
I never read the Narnia books, but i have a huge interest in World Lore of any fleshed out Fantasy setting, and man this vid is so well produced, cant not be immediatly drawn in :D
Wow, that's so great, thanks for you comment. You should definitely check them out. They're a quick read, but full of nuance. If you read them, be sure to go with the original publication order and not the new chronological order. Cheers!
The quality of your first video is top notch! The presentation, narration and your research is all well done! Saw your channel from Nerd of the Rings and thought to myself why not support a fellow fantasy lover especially on the works of CS Lewis and Tolkien. Hope your channel grows more, Cheers!
Amazing video, really really fantastic awesome video. Thx for Making this, keep making this. I found your channel from NOTR and subscribed and going to supporting you
It's good I found this channel, There's a lot of Lord of The Rings youtubers such as Men of The West & History of The Ages but finding youtubers who are well versed in the lore of The Chronicles of Narnia is super rare. I love both fantasy series but I always felt that the Narnia Books & Films are overshadowed by The Lord Of The Rings.
They're both great and I was inspired by Nerd of the Rings to start this channel. But I agree, it's so surprising that there's not much good Narnia content. I have a feeling thats going to change!
@@IntotheWardrobe I can only name one other and that is Narniaweb but that one is more Narnia news than talking about the lore. It's great that Nerd of The Rings inspire you, cause well you have NoTR, History of The Ages, & Men of The West for Tolkien, you have others that cover the lore of A Song of Ice and Fire, you even have youtubers that cover lore of The Witcher but almost nothing on Narnia. But I think the reason is well no disrespect to CS Lewis and his fantastic books but you look at The Chronicles of Narnia books and then you look at the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, the Song of Ice & Fire books, and The Witcher books and well you see the amount of content and detail & lore those books have.
@@Wolfboy2012 (ik this is an old comment buut) personally i was always turned off by the religious themes of Narnia. i think more secular fiction is easier to digest for a wider audience and create more mass appeal, could be another reason why its not so popular. The lore and world building always interested me though.
I've just recently started re-reading the Narnia books (just finished "The Magician's Nephew" and started "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"), and I am glad to have found your channel! Keep up the excellent work! Stay well out there everybody, and God be with you, friends. :)
Thank you for pointing out the correct reading order! I really dislike the trend to put them in their internal chronological order rather than in the correct published order. There is a reason to read them in the correct order.
I know I’m late to this video, but I just started getting back into the Narnia books and movies! Where exactly are the Telmarines from? I know they’re from Telmar, but where on that official map is Telmar located? Thanks for being our go-to TH-camr for everything Narnia!🦁
I'm really impressed by this! I haven't come across another Narnia-devoted channel (in the vein of the countless Tolkein ones) before! I'm also really impressed by the quality of the video and that you managed to find some very decent fan art (something I have searched for on countless occasions and failed)
Thank you so much for your wonderful channel. My middle schoolers are about to dive into reading "The Last Battle." I have been struggling to find detailed, clear, and engaging resources to bring those who have not read the rest of the series up to speed. Your videos are beyond helpful. Thank you thank you!
Man, I just found your stuff today, I love it! These are so great! We're based in N Ireland and are in the middle of shooting a Narnia-Easter video at some of CS Lewis' favorite spots here that inspired Narnia, so I was searching for some inspiration on our video. You're doing a great job with these!
I've often thought of the classic trope of people from our world transported to fantasy worlds, AKA the Isukai trope in Japanese and I've asked people "Which of the following fantasy world would you rather visit: Wonderland, Oz, Neverland or Narnia?" When people ask my thought on the question I would choose Narnia in a heartbeat. Narnia is a lot more fleshed out and expansive compared to the fantasy worlds that came before it (although Oz is arguably more fleshed out given that L. Frank Baum wrote more books on Oz than Lewis did Narnia), there's a lot to explore, and you know if you can trust an animal if it talks, because all animals have to give up their wild ways or else Aslan takes away their gift of speech, and meeting Aslan alone would be worth the trip. Wonderland is trippy, possibly too trippy for its own good to want to go down the rabbit-hole. Oz is a close second to Narnia, but the flying monkeys are something of a deal-breaker, and Neverland is somehow guilty of false advertisement, especially in the movie Hook, and being a fairly small island doesn't offer as much wonder compared to Wonderland, Oz, or Narnia.
@@fredreindljr1996 I would too, but I chose not to include Middle-earth in the hypothetical question, because it's a fantasy world with no links whatsoever to the real world the way we see with Narnia, Wonderland, or Oz. Never once did Tolkien write a story that had a normal kid/or kids going to Middle-earth and back like in Lewis's Narnia books. If I wanted to list examples of non-Izukai fantasy worlds the best I could think of would be Middle-earth, Osten Ard, the World of Ice and Fire (Westeros/Essos/Sothoryos), and Alagaesia.
I just today discovered your channel and am so grateful for what you are doing! Have you yet created a video touching on beginning a first series read through with The Lion, The Witch…? Because after my first read through when I was six or seven, I always believed the best order was plainly chronological. Perhaps you could touch on this, if you haven’t already. I’ve read once in the originally published order, and twice chronologically (once before the books were renumbered and once after), yet perhaps there are other sequences I haven’t even considered.
You should make a video on the different countries of Men of Narnia, such as Telmar and how it came to be a part of Narnia. Who were the Telmarines when they were on earth? What did they believe in? Why did they come to Narnia?
Late comment here, but geography is always important, both in the real world and in fictional ones. It's important to get your bearings, which is why I've pored over maps of Narnia, Middle-Earth, and elsewhere. This is a good summary, although not completely exhaustive. I always wondered about the lands further south of Calormen, which we don't even get a glimpse of iirc. Presumably there were other countries down there, and they were either conquered or became tributaries to Calormen. Beyond that, it's hard to say. Also, I can confirm that publication order is the only correct way to read the series!
Plainly and simply, Narnia is - as Aslan Himself had described while creating it - a beautiful Otherworld of walking trees, talking beasts, and divine waters. 🙂
I'd love to see a sister channel were you read through the books! I found one that does the Harry Potter books a little while back and it would be amazing to have one for this series too!!
This is the perfect season to begin reading them! One word of advice, follow the publication order not the current published order. Start with The Lion the witch and the Wardrobe :-)
Hello! Oh, how wonderful the is someone who really explains Narnia! Please, make a video about the shape of that world (which is flat). Maybe Lewis wanted to give us a hint: a door in the sky made by Aslan to make kids return home, giant mountains surrounding the world of Narnia, the supporters of the flat theory think that our geography looks quite like. This would be simply amazing ❤
Aslan's world explained. Arguably one of the most extraordinary and unique titles in the whole children's story genre is the first book in the seven part series collectively known as The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The origin of the title ? In Dr David Holbrook's phenomenalogical study we read : ' The title of the first fable we examine virtually means ,by my phenomenalogical analysis, ' the string [ oral ] authority I needed to invoke in my search through the birth passage into the world of death for my dead mother who, I feared , might be a witch.' The very fact that the fable is offered in terms of such symbolism actually invites such an interpretation , and to interpret is quite legitimate - as Lewis hinted he believed.' I think it's a good and practical idea to seek out the more mundane origin before the exotic. This might be an example. Lewis had a lifelong love of the children's stories of Edith Nesbit and in preparation for his own stories reread her books. Worth noting in The Story of the Treasure Seekers we read : ' ...the lion, the witch, and the king...' The extensive, significant, and striking correlation between the writers' works suggests this is Lewis' - be it unconsciously so - source for the title.
1:28 Do you think the worlds occasionally overlapping with each other was like the nine world of the world tree in Norse mythology? I always had the idea that Tolkien referred more to Norse mythology in his texts while Lewis focused more on Greek/Roman mythology, but the different worlds separated and in some way connected (even if only though the wood between the worlds) seemed a bit like the world tree.
What gets me is that so many important places in Narnia never show up in the rest of the books. The Tree of Protection is the one thing protecting Narnia from Jadis and we don't even know how it fell down. The Stone Table is a mystical relic of Deep Magic from before the Dawn of Time and it's nowhere in The Magician's Nephew or in any other books. Who was that giant who destroyed everything in The Last Battle but doesn't get much of a back story?
So Narnia has an evil empire in and around a desert region, home to thieves, slave trade and tyrants, who also wear clothes and have architecture similar to the middle east. What did CS Lewis mean by this?
Just going to make my comment on the Reading order comment. Yes. if you are starting the books for the first time, it makes sense to ready them in the order of release much for the same reason it's good to watch Star Wars in order of release when seeing it for the first time. However after becoming familiar with the books I see nothing wrong reading them in a more Chronological order (A Horse and His Boy being an exception for obvious reasons.)
Ah, I got it now. Thanks. I guess I see the last part of LWW as more of a prologue, so I never thought about that as an issue. But, you're right, timelines overlap.
Did you say one can get to Aslan's country by going further North? As far as I remember, the only way there was to the far East (land of the Rising Sun as it were, or the Emperor over the sea) or else through a certain stable door which seemed like a exception for the end times. Or through death. But as far as physically traveling there, it seems like it was always East. I suppose theoretically, if planet Narnia is a flat disc, you can get to the end of the world (if that's the same thing) in any direction - but I don't recall the books ever saying that. Nice video though, and a promising channel!
Excellent observation! You're right, there's no mention of this is in the books, it's just speculation. The assumption is that if there is an absolute edge of the word in the Utter East, there has to be an utter West, North, and South. It is really extrapolation and speculation. The theory is that the easiest (and maybe only humanly possible) way to reach the edge is by sea to the east. I'll try to be more clear in future videos about the difference between canon, inference and speculation. Thanks for the great feedback!
@@IntotheWardrobe Lewis purposely made the only way to Aslan's Country as being to the east, due to his blatant allegory to Christian teaching. When making theories about Narnia, you cannot remove his source materials and beliefs from the equation. Suggesting other ways to Aslan's Country exist does exactly that. Don't secularize a very Christian book series. Otherwise, love the channel.
4:17-4:26- You say in order to find Aslan's country you would have to travel north but according to the Dawn Treader wasn't it The East in which Aslan's country was to be found, Going towards the water?
I don't agree with you, as the order you should read the books, in my opinion, you should read The Magician's Nephew first then the The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, The horse and his boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the Silver Chair, and Then The Last Battle.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. It's definitely a topic that people have strong opinions on and I look forward to discussing it in a future video. Besides the fact that it's the chronological order, are there any other reasons you feel it should be read this way? Does it enhance the reader's experience in your opinion? Would love to get a different perspective!
@@IntotheWardrobe yes, it is because it shows Narnia from the beginning of its creation by Aslan, all the way to its end, in order of the events as they happened
@@IntotheWardrobe it’s kind of like as if we’d read the Bible Beginninn with the letters of Paul or Revelation, and then come to Genesis. In order to understand the fullness and Love and forgiveness of God, we need to understand where it all went wrong.
Oh I hope you still remember to think with portals lol since thats basically what the wardrobe has in the back that allowed it to open narnia in the first place
There are so many amazing places yet to visit! What part of Narnia do you think we should explore next? If you'd like to support the work of this channel today and get exclusive access to pre-releases, research notes, and some swag, you can visit www.patreon.com/IntoTheWardrobe
Yeah plz
I'd love to visit all the mysterious islands wee see in Voyage of the Dawn Treader
You can count on it. So much to talk about, that will be a packed episode, for sure.
@@IntotheWardrobe Can't wait! Your Channel is amazing. Keep it on.
Greetings from Brazil!
do you know what happened to the Talmarine castle after Caspian took the crown and relocated to Car Paravel?
It takes guts to make a whole channel dedicated to Narnian lore. Lewis created much but explained very little, unlike his colleague Tolkien who wrote entire epics detailing Middle Earth. While it would be fun to have Middle Earth levels of lore in Narnia it would kind of ruin the whole point of the stories. Narnia is a simple beautiful world with simple beautiful stories. Each masterfully designed to appeal to the young and young at heart and I really wouldn't have it any other way. Here's to the start of a great channel
These videos are unparalleled. Head and shoulders above the rest.
Well done, my friend! Great job on your first vid!
Thank you, Sensei!
Ya I heard about this from your channel NOTR and so far I think it’s great. This video is awesome.
Well, NOTR sets the bar pretty high. Not sure if I'll ever get there but we'll all have fun and tell some great stories in the meantime. Thanks for the encouragement!
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It's about time. Time for a Narnia Channel.
Yes! Look forward to working with all the Friends of Narnia to tell some great stories here. Feel free to share if you have any ideas or suggestions!
I've been waiting for a Narnia dedicated YT channel like this forever! This rules man, great job!
I'm surprised there aren't more creators out there too! Thanks for the encouragement.
@@IntotheWardrobe I kind of like Thw hunger games trilogy
Don't be de motivated that your channel hasn't blown up yet
Production value is great
Continue making videos and it will definitely blow up
I know I've learned that in my TH-cam Career.
@@ScotsThinker I know it’s hard to create content but I am thinking of what would you like?
Yes! Finally I found a Narnian channel! Congratulations! 👍❤
Amazing. Two days ago I returned to the Narnia books and now I've found this brand new channel. Perfect timing!
Fantastic! Which book did you start with?
@@IntotheWardrobe When I was a child, my mom would read me the books in the only correct order, that is: starting with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". However, now I decided to read "The Horse and His Boy", because that's the part I remember the less. After that I'm going to read the other books, probably in the traditional order.
As a Narnia-fan from early childhood, thank you very much for your dedication to Narnia and sharing it :)
Ive been waiting yearrrsss for a channel dedicated to Narnia Lore !!! I loved this video !
I've waited for a chanel like this for my whole life
dang this channel will do well! look forward to the future!
Thanks so much for the feedback and encouragement. Keep it coming :-)
Very nice start for the channel. We don’t have enough youtubers talking about lore of Narnia. Tolkien’s world is like very historically grounded while Narnia is more like landscape of the soul which makes it refreshingly unique.
Surprising, isn't it? Thanks for the encouragement!
I think it would be really interesting to look at Cair Paravel. It's mentioned frequently, but we spend very little time in the actual place. Was it built by King Frank? How did it get the name? Neither Jadis nor Miraz, though they claim the throne, live there. The Pevensies are crowned there, and they live there for a while, then it falls to ruin when they leave Narnia (and is apparently inspired by a ruined castle in Ireland). Caspian and later Rilian live there, but no mention of when or how it gets rebuilt after Caspian's coronation. Jill and Eustace spend one night there. Tirian sends Roonwit the Centaur there with a message in TLB, but it quickly fills up with conquering Calormenes. In 2555 years, we don't really see much of the place, despite how important it is.
Looking forward to learning more about Narnia with you!
Thanks! Same here!
Great stuff, man! Really enjoyed it!
Thanks to you, we now have a better Geographical understanding of Narnia.
I grew up watching the movies over and over again and I finally decided to pick up the books for the first time as an adult. So glad I found this channel to help me explore the very immersive Narnia world!
i just recently got Narnia on Audio, (i used to listen to it as a kid) and i was amazed that C.S. Lewis wrote a multiverse. seems so ahead of his time.
I love this channel, it is so awesome. Narnia means a great deal to me and I absolutely love the books. Keep up the great work; hope to see more in the future.. 😁👍
Thank you for making this channel. The Emperor will be pleased we have new lands to conquer
I am a huge Narnia fan, so I Subscribed!
Good job. I can't wait to see more. Maybe I will remember what I forgot, because when I was reading the books I didn't make many notes.
This is needed content! Thank you for doing it!
This is so freaking awesome I have never seen anyone else as interested in Narnia lore as me ! Thank you so much for making this channel!
Great job setting the stage for readers to better picture the world of Narnia. I love your passion and dedication, and your intros and conclusions leave me ready to watch more.
Hey! I'm so excited by this channel! I love lore channels, and this has everything I love! I loved how you presented the map and the highlighting. I look forward to watching more!
Wow! I didn't know lore channels were a thing but that's awesome. Thanks a ton for the feedback. Would love to hear any more suggestions!
Just found you today and watched all your episodes on Narnia. Great job on this and cant wait for more. Honestly Chronicles of Narnia so vast you could right your own stories into it during certine time frames of its history.
Great work! I once did an English essay on the geopolitics of the Narnian world so I very much enjoyed this video.
I've been looking for this kind of channel dedicated for Narnia! Thank you so much ❤️
I never read the Narnia books, but i have a huge interest in World Lore of any fleshed out Fantasy setting, and man this vid is so well produced, cant not be immediatly drawn in :D
Wow, that's so great, thanks for you comment. You should definitely check them out. They're a quick read, but full of nuance. If you read them, be sure to go with the original publication order and not the new chronological order. Cheers!
@Vlad the inhaler you should start by reading the horse and his boy
Just found this channel AND I LOVE IT!
The quality of your first video is top notch! The presentation, narration and your research is all well done!
Saw your channel from Nerd of the Rings and thought to myself why not support a fellow fantasy lover especially on the works of CS Lewis and Tolkien.
Hope your channel grows more, Cheers!
Wow! Thank you so much for the encouragement and support!
Amazing video, really really fantastic awesome video. Thx for Making this, keep making this. I found your channel from NOTR and subscribed and going to supporting you
NOTR is the best! Thanks for your support, much more come!
It's good I found this channel, There's a lot of Lord of The Rings youtubers such as Men of The West & History of The Ages but finding youtubers who are well versed in the lore of The Chronicles of Narnia is super rare.
I love both fantasy series but I always felt that the Narnia Books & Films are overshadowed by The Lord Of The Rings.
They're both great and I was inspired by Nerd of the Rings to start this channel. But I agree, it's so surprising that there's not much good Narnia content. I have a feeling thats going to change!
@@IntotheWardrobe I can only name one other and that is Narniaweb but that one is more Narnia news than talking about the lore.
It's great that Nerd of The Rings inspire you, cause well you have NoTR, History of The Ages, & Men of The West for Tolkien, you have others that cover the lore of A Song of Ice and Fire, you even have youtubers that cover lore of The Witcher but almost nothing on Narnia.
But I think the reason is well no disrespect to CS Lewis and his fantastic books but you look at The Chronicles of Narnia books and then you look at the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, the Song of Ice & Fire books, and The Witcher books and well you see the amount of content and detail & lore those books have.
@@Wolfboy2012 (ik this is an old comment buut) personally i was always turned off by the religious themes of Narnia. i think more secular fiction is easier to digest for a wider audience and create more mass appeal, could be another reason why its not so popular. The lore and world building always interested me though.
I've just recently started re-reading the Narnia books (just finished "The Magician's Nephew" and started "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"), and I am glad to have found your channel! Keep up the excellent work!
Stay well out there everybody, and God be with you, friends. :)
Thank you for pointing out the correct reading order! I really dislike the trend to put them in their internal chronological order rather than in the correct published order. There is a reason to read them in the correct order.
Great first posting - let's see more!
Thank you! There's a new video coming this week!
I know I’m late to this video, but I just started getting back into the Narnia books and movies! Where exactly are the Telmarines from? I know they’re from Telmar, but where on that official map is Telmar located? Thanks for being our go-to TH-camr for everything Narnia!🦁
I'm really impressed by this! I haven't come across another Narnia-devoted channel (in the vein of the countless Tolkein ones) before! I'm also really impressed by the quality of the video and that you managed to find some very decent fan art (something I have searched for on countless occasions and failed)
One of my favorite series!!
I love your reviews of Narnia world Tour.
My favorite book is The Horse and his Boy. I feel like it’s the less popular of all the books.
I wanna see that get a movie.
@@bighand1530 and I can portray Aravis the badass female character
Well done! This is awesome.
Thank you for the note of encouragement!
Excellent video explaining the lands that CS created.Sad they didn't make more movies but at least we have your channel to watch.😀
Cool Beans..Thanks
Excellent work!👌 You are a gifted narrator /storyteller.
The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe really is the only way to begin in Narnia, I’m so glad you have that video in mind! 😂
Thank you so much for your wonderful channel. My middle schoolers are about to dive into reading "The Last Battle." I have been struggling to find detailed, clear, and engaging resources to bring those who have not read the rest of the series up to speed. Your videos are beyond helpful. Thank you thank you!
Man, I just found your stuff today, I love it! These are so great! We're based in N Ireland and are in the middle of shooting a Narnia-Easter video at some of CS Lewis' favorite spots here that inspired Narnia, so I was searching for some inspiration on our video. You're doing a great job with these!
Thanks so much for the encouragement! I would love to see your video when it's finished!
@@IntotheWardrobe We just posted it! Thank you! th-cam.com/video/p8ypEYjLg9o/w-d-xo.html
I've often thought of the classic trope of people from our world transported to fantasy worlds, AKA the Isukai trope in Japanese and I've asked people "Which of the following fantasy world would you rather visit: Wonderland, Oz, Neverland or Narnia?" When people ask my thought on the question I would choose Narnia in a heartbeat. Narnia is a lot more fleshed out and expansive compared to the fantasy worlds that came before it (although Oz is arguably more fleshed out given that L. Frank Baum wrote more books on Oz than Lewis did Narnia), there's a lot to explore, and you know if you can trust an animal if it talks, because all animals have to give up their wild ways or else Aslan takes away their gift of speech, and meeting Aslan alone would be worth the trip. Wonderland is trippy, possibly too trippy for its own good to want to go down the rabbit-hole. Oz is a close second to Narnia, but the flying monkeys are something of a deal-breaker, and Neverland is somehow guilty of false advertisement, especially in the movie Hook, and being a fairly small island doesn't offer as much wonder compared to Wonderland, Oz, or Narnia.
For me, it would be between Narnia and Middle-earth.
@@fredreindljr1996 I would too, but I chose not to include Middle-earth in the hypothetical question, because it's a fantasy world with no links whatsoever to the real world the way we see with Narnia, Wonderland, or Oz. Never once did Tolkien write a story that had a normal kid/or kids going to Middle-earth and back like in Lewis's Narnia books. If I wanted to list examples of non-Izukai fantasy worlds the best I could think of would be Middle-earth, Osten Ard, the World of Ice and Fire (Westeros/Essos/Sothoryos), and Alagaesia.
These are really nicely done :)
Really love this channel!
I just today discovered your channel and am so grateful for what you are doing!
Have you yet created a video touching on beginning a first series read through with The Lion, The Witch…? Because after my first read through when I was six or seven, I always believed the best order was plainly chronological. Perhaps you could touch on this, if you haven’t already. I’ve read once in the originally published order, and twice chronologically (once before the books were renumbered and once after), yet perhaps there are other sequences I haven’t even considered.
I could imagine your voice in an anime or a video game, not sure if you have thought about that but you have a good voice for it.
Wow! What a compliment! Maybe one day Narnia will get it's own anime series...I'd just be happy to be a dwarf. :-)
You should make a video on the different countries of Men of Narnia, such as Telmar and how it came to be a part of Narnia. Who were the Telmarines when they were on earth? What did they believe in? Why did they come to Narnia?
Great idea! Thanks for the note.
Lovely video. Just subscribed. I don't know why I suddenly got interested in Narnia today. But it's good to be back. 💟💟
If you don't mind me asking, could you maybe make a video about the Telmarines. I never really understood them in the book!
Wonderful video, I love narnia
And just like that I found this awesome channel and subscribed
Great content!! Keep it up.
Finally, my questions have been answered
Glad for this channel. Subbed
Late comment here, but geography is always important, both in the real world and in fictional ones. It's important to get your bearings, which is why I've pored over maps of Narnia, Middle-Earth, and elsewhere. This is a good summary, although not completely exhaustive. I always wondered about the lands further south of Calormen, which we don't even get a glimpse of iirc. Presumably there were other countries down there, and they were either conquered or became tributaries to Calormen. Beyond that, it's hard to say. Also, I can confirm that publication order is the only correct way to read the series!
Plainly and simply, Narnia is - as Aslan Himself had described while creating it - a beautiful Otherworld of walking trees, talking beasts, and divine waters. 🙂
Loved this movie as a child literally ahead of its time
I'd love to see a sister channel were you read through the books! I found one that does the Harry Potter books a little while back and it would be amazing to have one for this series too!!
I've never came in contact w these works but as in many cases I'm just fascinated..
This is the perfect season to begin reading them! One word of advice, follow the publication order not the current published order. Start with The Lion the witch and the Wardrobe :-)
The Narnia world are very interesting to explore that’s amazing Narnia world.
Great job, keep it up!
The Wild Lands of the North are very interesting.🌈🦄⭐👑🦊
A tour of Narnia...If this is more real than our own then I would like to see a realtor there.
Hello! Oh, how wonderful the is someone who really explains Narnia!
Please, make a video about the shape of that world (which is flat). Maybe Lewis wanted to give us a hint: a door in the sky made by Aslan to make kids return home, giant mountains surrounding the world of Narnia, the supporters of the flat theory think that our geography looks quite like. This would be simply amazing ❤
Interesting idea! I'll add it to the list. Thanks so much!
I Love Narnia :D
Do one on Cair Parival
This is so amazing video
Aslan's world explained.
Arguably one of the most extraordinary and unique titles in the whole children's story genre is the first book in the seven part series collectively known as The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The origin of the title ? In Dr David Holbrook's phenomenalogical study we read : ' The title of the first fable we examine virtually means ,by my phenomenalogical analysis, ' the string [ oral ] authority I needed to invoke in my search through the birth passage into the world of death for my dead mother who, I feared , might be a witch.'
The very fact that the fable is offered in terms of such symbolism actually invites such an interpretation , and to interpret is quite legitimate - as Lewis hinted he believed.'
I think it's a good and practical idea to seek out the more mundane origin before the exotic. This might be an example. Lewis had a lifelong love of the children's stories of Edith Nesbit and in preparation for his own stories reread her books.
Worth noting in The Story of the Treasure Seekers we read : ' ...the lion, the witch, and the king...'
The extensive, significant, and striking correlation between the writers' works suggests this is Lewis' - be it unconsciously so - source for the title.
1:28 Do you think the worlds occasionally overlapping with each other was like the nine world of the world tree in Norse mythology? I always had the idea that Tolkien referred more to Norse mythology in his texts while Lewis focused more on Greek/Roman mythology, but the different worlds separated and in some way connected (even if only though the wood between the worlds) seemed a bit like the world tree.
What gets me is that so many important places in Narnia never show up in the rest of the books. The Tree of Protection is the one thing protecting Narnia from Jadis and we don't even know how it fell down. The Stone Table is a mystical relic of Deep Magic from before the Dawn of Time and it's nowhere in The Magician's Nephew or in any other books. Who was that giant who destroyed everything in The Last Battle but doesn't get much of a back story?
So Narnia has an evil empire in and around a desert region, home to thieves, slave trade and tyrants, who also wear clothes and have architecture similar to the middle east. What did CS Lewis mean by this?
I think since slavery existed back then he was just pointing it out
History
And I said to myself:
What a wonderful world.
Great presentation
I really think that middle earth and narnia is on the same landmass
I’m 100% convinced
You should make videos of each countries in the World of Narnia.
Incredible
Wonderful
Just going to make my comment on the Reading order comment. Yes. if you are starting the books for the first time, it makes sense to ready them in the order of release much for the same reason it's good to watch Star Wars in order of release when seeing it for the first time. However after becoming familiar with the books I see nothing wrong reading them in a more Chronological order (A Horse and His Boy being an exception for obvious reasons.)
Yes, I agree. But why is HHB an exception? I must be missing something here...
@@IntotheWardrobe Because you can't read it chronologically unless you stop in the middle of L,W,W.
Ah, I got it now. Thanks. I guess I see the last part of LWW as more of a prologue, so I never thought about that as an issue. But, you're right, timelines overlap.
Question: What about the Island nations that are in the Great Eastern Ocean?
Will there be a movie about Aslan his country and how this looks and what Aslan does?
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Love.
This.
You should do a video on Aslan's garden from the magicians nephew
Did you say one can get to Aslan's country by going further North? As far as I remember, the only way there was to the far East (land of the Rising Sun as it were, or the Emperor over the sea) or else through a certain stable door which seemed like a exception for the end times. Or through death. But as far as physically traveling there, it seems like it was always East. I suppose theoretically, if planet Narnia is a flat disc, you can get to the end of the world (if that's the same thing) in any direction - but I don't recall the books ever saying that.
Nice video though, and a promising channel!
Excellent observation! You're right, there's no mention of this is in the books, it's just speculation. The assumption is that if there is an absolute edge of the word in the Utter East, there has to be an utter West, North, and South. It is really extrapolation and speculation. The theory is that the easiest (and maybe only humanly possible) way to reach the edge is by sea to the east. I'll try to be more clear in future videos about the difference between canon, inference and speculation. Thanks for the great feedback!
@@IntotheWardrobe Lewis purposely made the only way to Aslan's Country as being to the east, due to his blatant allegory to Christian teaching. When making theories about Narnia, you cannot remove his source materials and beliefs from the equation. Suggesting other ways to Aslan's Country exist does exactly that. Don't secularize a very Christian book series. Otherwise, love the channel.
4:17-4:26- You say in order to find Aslan's country you would have to travel north but according to the Dawn Treader wasn't it The East in which Aslan's country was to be found, Going towards the water?
I don't agree with you, as the order you should read the books, in my opinion, you should read The Magician's Nephew first then the The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,
The horse and his boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the Silver Chair, and Then The Last Battle.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. It's definitely a topic that people have strong opinions on and I look forward to discussing it in a future video. Besides the fact that it's the chronological order, are there any other reasons you feel it should be read this way? Does it enhance the reader's experience in your opinion? Would love to get a different perspective!
@@IntotheWardrobe yes, it is because it shows Narnia from the beginning of its creation by Aslan, all the way to its end, in order of the events as they happened
@@IntotheWardrobe it’s kind of like as if we’d read the Bible Beginninn with the letters of Paul or Revelation, and then come to Genesis. In order to understand the fullness and Love and forgiveness of God, we need to understand where it all went wrong.
We’re was telmar located in narnia
What about Telmar?
Where is Telmar in all of this?
Interesting 🧐
How do you get that font for the title into your videos?
Where can I get these pictures?!
Oh I hope you still remember to think with portals lol since thats basically what the wardrobe has in the back that allowed it to open narnia in the first place