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“This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!” thought Lucy, going still further in and pushing the soft folds of the coats aside to make room for her. Then she noticed that there was something crunching under her feet. “I wonder is that more mothballs?” she thought, stopping down to feel it with her hand. But […]
October 23, 2011 by richardrohlin
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first in The Chronicles of Narnia. And, some maintain, it is the best. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe introduces the reader to the land of Narnia with fresh eyes and leaves us open to a number of questions and possibilities, which Lewis eventually answers […]
October 14, 2011 by richardrohlin
“You see, friends,” he said, “that before the new, clean world I gave you is even seven hours old, a force of evil has already entered it; waked and brought hither by this son of Adam.” The Beasts, even Strawberry, all turned their eyes on Digory till he felt that he wished the ground would […]
October 7, 2011 by richardrohlin
If you are reading The Chronicles of Narnia in the order in which they were originally written (as I first did), then The Magician’s Nephew will not be your first glimpse of Aslan. But if it is, then it is a spectacular introduction. The first picture we have of this most central of Lewis’ characters […]
September 5, 2011 by richardrohlin
The most important and central figure throughout The Chronicles of Narnia is, of course, Aslan – The Great Lion, the King of Beasts, the King of the Wood, and the son of the Emperor Beyond the Sea. He is a Christ figure, and he is more than that. Lewis put it this way: “Supposing there […]
September 2, 2011 by richardrohlin
Digory Kirk is perhaps the most important protagonist in The Magician’s Nephew. Polly is there too, but more often than not she seems to be a foil for Digory. It is Digory’s decisions that drive the most pivotal moments of the story: Digory rings the bell that wakes the Witch, Digory is eventually responsible for […]
August 31, 2011 by richardrohlin
Something we’ve already given some thought to is the fact that good literature, of any sort, ought to point us more toward reality than it draws us in to unreality. Here are a few ways that fairy-stories in particular (and by that I mean almost any fanciful setting) can do that when sometimes other kinds […]
August 29, 2011 by richardrohlin
Andrew Ketterley (“Uncle Andrew”, as he is usually referred to throughout the book) is one of the most interesting characters in The Magician’s Nephew. In addition to being a minor antagonist, Uncle Andrew also shares enough qualities with Jadis (the Witch) that by being introduced to him the reader is actually being helped to understand […]
August 27, 2011 by richardrohlin
This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. It is a very important story because it shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the land of Narnia first began. In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and […]
August 22, 2011 by richardrohlin
If not the most important of Lewis’ Chronicles, The Magician’s Nephew is probably one of the most informative. It fills in gaps and questions we have about the land of Narnia, its origins, and some of the important characters we will meet in other books. By publication order, The Magician’s Nephew is actually the last […]
The Gentleman Adventurer 
October 28, 2011 by richardrohlin
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