a place to put Narnia

Call me farther

[feanorianism]

'But you're happy to be here, aren't you? 'While it lasts'

Chinese Satelite - Phoebe Bridgers | "Slade House" by David Mitchell | Deto(nation) - Ocean Vuong | Punish - Ethel Cain

[high-king-of-narnia]

Something about the fact that after the Pevensie’s are pulled out of Narnia three of them don’t live long enough to reach those ages again. That Peter is supposed to be around twenty eight by the end of their reign and after returning to England he only lives until he is twenty two. That despite living multiple lives he never makes it to thirty. That Edmund dies at nineteen and Lucy at seventeen.

That Susan is left behind knowing what her siblings would have looked like for several years after their deaths and then not knowing any longer. That she grows up and has to face life without the people she always expected to be by her side. That even in Aslan’s kingdom the Pevensie’s cannot find true peace because someone is always missing.

That Peter never has the chance to graduate university or become a doctor, that Lucy doesn’t even live to adulthood, that Edmund never gets old enough for people to take him seriously. That Susan lives to be older than Peter ever got to be and then older than all her siblings put together before sixty.

That she has to grow up for all of them and they never get to.

[theblueandpurplebutterfly]

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness.

-C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[anti-rop]

there’s still time to not release this.

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[emmaubler]

Let it die unwatched and unloved

[catie-does-things]

>not your mother's or grandmother's >unbelievably contemporary music >names two bands formed in 1965

[mistress-light]

Narnia: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe • dir. Andrew Adamson

[ripley-stark]

ignoring the catholic propaganda it's always metal that the narnia characters are some of the only fantasy protagonists that actually aspire to grow old and view eternal youth as dehumanizing, infantilizing, and haunting

[mademoiseli]

References to The Horse and His Boy in The Silver Chair

[aimeecarreros]

lmao wrong weapon, sorry bro

[jessmalia]

#i love this part so much guys#like edmund spent all of lww terrified of forever remaining in peter’s shadow and now look at him#proudly taking on the role as his second hand man#because the difference now is that peter sees him#look at that boy! he’s watching his little brother support him so intently#in lww he did nothing but berate edmund and think of him as someone who just creates problems he has to fix#but now he’s the one who’s been messing up and edmund has continued to support him throughout the whole movie and he never would’ve been#able to get through it all without him#‘​you’ve always been there’#and in the end that’s all that edmund needed#he didn’t need to be better than peter he just needed to know that he saw him and loved and appreciated him#in lww peter’s shadow was a place edmund was forced into#but in pc he’s making the active choice to stay by his right side (tags via @jessmalia)

bringing back an old narnia tag essay again

[zannolin]

ppl who hate on movie peter pevensie for being full of rage and hubris and making bad decisions "because he's being stupid" or whatever make no sense to me like. it was so clearly set up at the beginning of the movie that he's been forced back into being a teenager who absolutely no one respects or takes seriously after spending YEARS of his life as a competent, capable and respected king (and of course it's harder for him to adjust than edmund who sort of worked out all his major issues last film, or lucy who's so young, and susan's doing her damndest to hold it together because she can't be openly angry like peter) and is thus grappling with trying to live like that again. then he finally gets back to narnia where it's supposed to be different and is faced with the exact same problem of no one taking him seriously because of his age so like. fuckin yeah he's gonna be overcompensating?? idk what to tell you if you can't grasp the basics of his character arc and development here.

[zannolin]

and also ☝️ he's seventeen. who among us wasn't full of rage and grief and self-loathing at seventeen.

[high-king-of-narnia]

Movie Peter is my favorite 😢

Adds so much character development and internal conflict you don’t get with the books.

[clumsy-words-again]

I think magically becoming a Narnian queen would help me a lot actually

[chaoticstabby]

go tell someone what you wish I would've done insp.

[freakcliff]

seeing edmund in the horse and his boy is so much fun because going off of cs lewis's timeline he's here he's like 24 years old and he's been put in charge of a 12 year old who does NOT want to be put in anyones charge and you first meet him through him scolding what he believes to be said 12 year old for running off and later in the books hes like you're 12 you aren't allowed to fight in battles and its like. what do we think king edmund the just was doing at 12 years old. being king of an entire nation, having already fought in multiple battles. one of four humans in the entire country. no one is allowed to tell him what to do but his older siblings and truly how good is he at listening to them. he has nooo reference for what 12 year old boys Should be doing and now oh no he's lost the child. the child has gone missing in the streets of a foriegn capital

[queenlucythevaliant]

So a couple Christmases ago, I got an emergency whistle in my stocking. It was supposed to be deafeningly loud, so obviously not the sort of thing you blow on Christmas morning just to see what it sounds like. And let me tell you, pretty much that whole morning, I was dying to blow that whistle. Out of curiosity, and because I wasn't supposed to. The next time I had the house to myself, it was one of the first things I did.

All of this to say, when Susan rode around with her horn strapped to her saddle, I wonder how often she was intrusively tempted to just pick it up and blow it? Was is hard to run around Narnia with a horn she was only supposed to blow when she was definitely, seriously, for-real in danger?

And more to the point, what about Caspian? Did he ride away from Dr. Cornelius with a little voice in the back of his head going blow the horn dude c'mon just blow it find out what it sounds like c'mon dude?

[supreme-leader-stoat]

#susan was very fortunate to have a horn-justifying emergency within a couple of days#caspian demonstrated great restraint for a 13 year old

[ach-sss-no]

hey I'm sorry to fandom-pivot on your post but i really believe this lotr excerpt is relevant to your point because it features a grown man blowing his very loud war-horn for no apparent reason

Boromir had a long sword, in fashion like Anduril but of less lineage and he bore also a shield and his war-horn. 'Loud and clear it sounds in the valleys of the hills,' he said, and then let all the foes of Gondor flee!' Putting it to his lips he blew a blast, and the echoes leapt from rock to rock, and all that heard that voice in Rivendell sprang to their feet. 'Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir, said Elrond. 'until you stand once more on the borders of your land, and dire need is on you.' 'Maybe,' said Boromir

[cryptotheism]

What are your thoughts on C.S. Lewis

Narnia is a balm to some of my problems with modern fantasy media. You can't out-clever Narnia. If you try to use the Narnia portals to do some stupid reddit shit like generate infinite energy in the real world, the laws of causality would warp so you learn a charming lesson. There is no escape. You WILL go on an adventure of self discovery.

[janusfnc14]

Lion Jesus WILL Teach You the meaning of Life and he will Not be taking complaints at this juncture. ^ He likes to do a little Trolling. In a benevolent way.

[1800dogzone]

[themoldysausage]

The Pevensies are the most perfect siblings representation in media. They argue with each other, they throw disgust when they have to be around each other, they bicker like actually siblings. Peter's little "I had it sorted" is such a sibling thing cause he knows he was saved but he'd rather die than admit it was his sibling who did it. And then when things actually get tough, they don't suddenly start being chummy, they still act like siblings, they still bicker and shove each other, but now they're doing it for a common goal, they will not falter together, but they're going to arguing with each other the whole battle. Too many movies show siblings miraculously changing their attitudes in the final battle as if they'd never fought ever, but not Narnia. They are siblings until the very end of the movie.