Excuse my rather belated welcome, though we met in passing on Chat, it was a rather busy time for me with year-end marking to do so I was aware of your misadventures but distracted. Your inability to post on the forum, reminded me how little I have used it of late. I used to check it and post every day for years through my student years but since I started my first full time job, I lurk more on chat and discuss stuff with other staffies but haven't posted much on the forum except during the Summer Challenges.
Anyway, with the academic year almost at an end here, I've finally been able to take leave and spend time with my family whom I've not seen since January due to Covid restrictions. And catch up on forum stuff. I lecture ancient Greek at a public university, mostly (though not exclusively) to theology students. With an academic position, I'm supposed to do research too, but I've only been in the job two years and switching to online learning this year meant I had little time for research.
I was also mostly introduced to Narnia through school. I had listened to some audio book or drama version on cassette tapes when I was five but don't remember the details from that. We read MN and LWW in school in Grade 4 and I tried HHB, but got lost in Tashbaan. I only picked them up again in Grade 9/10 when I read through all of them for the first time and fell in love with the stories.
Hope to see you around more
Statistics: Posted by Ajnos — Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:59 am
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I don't read as much fiction as I used to but Narnia has been a big influence on my life and I still love to talk about Narnia. I'd probably read more if I wasn't spending so much time trying to learn Spanish.
I love to draw and am trying to make a comic book as well. Eventually, when Narnia reaches public domain I hope to make comic book versions of some of the books.
I second Swan and also recommend the Focus on the Family versions. They are great to listen to while driving and do a good job deciding what needs narration and what could be spoken by the characters. They are very faithful to the books although they are adaptions.
Statistics: Posted by HermitoftheNorthernMarch — Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:59 am
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Honestly though, I can understand not going through the whole series. Not everyone would want to do all seven books (no matter how much I think they ought to). I do recommend the Focus on the Family dramatizations. I’m not the biggest fan of a couple of the voices and acting choices, but they did a really wonderful job! Certainly worth checking out.
Statistics: Posted by Ariel.of.Narnia — Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:38 pm
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Ariel.of.Narnia - Hello again and thanks again for helping me get set up here! The school curriculum was kinda funny in that you read The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe in 3rd grade, then Prince Caspain in 4th grade, and then that was it. As if they didn't think the kids would realize there's five other books and immediately wonder why we weren't reading those in class! I'm gonna have to see if I can find those CDs you mentioned ...
hobbit_of_narnia - Hello! I've got plenty of recommendations. Nine Lashes is a great one, they've released some great singles as of late. Skillet, Red, Disciple, and The Protest are similar and pretty good too. On the heavier side, Wolves At The Gate, Fit For A King, Demon Hunter, and War Of Ages are solid as well. I'll definitely send you a few tracks sometime soon!
Lil - Hello and thanks, it's good to meet you too! I wasn't aware that there were more Narnia movies than the recent three, I'm going to go check those out when I have a chance. As for computers, I've built a few desktops - I've built mine that I am using right now and a few for some friends. If you're interested in building one or general maintenance or whatnot, feel free to hit me up.
knightofnarnia - Hello and thanks, the forum's been great so far! There's a few topics I may explore today, and if you all are talking Star Wars in another forum, I may just join in. The chat's mentioned a few of us are watching The Mandalorian so there's plenty to chat about there.
Swanwhite - Hello again and thank you very much for helping me figure out my account! Glad to hear the forum's been tuned up, I'm looking forward to being a part of it all. I've yet to see A Lego Brickumentary but now I kinda wanna check it out!
Thanks again to all of you, I look forward to getting to know you more!
Statistics: Posted by chris — Sun Nov 15, 2020 5:16 pm
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What a spectacular entrance!
We are more or less acquainted now, but I extend to you my official welcome to the forum!!!
I joined an earlier form of this forum something like fourteen years ago. I haven't been posting as much as I used to, but the temporary loss of it (which wasn't really your fault) inspired me to get back into it.
I am also a Christian. Narnia and other books by Lewis have been a big encouragement to my faith.
I'm a Canadian, a library technician, poet, sculptor and apparently a playwright.
Have you ever seen the lego "brickumentary"? I watched it earlier this year and really enjoyed it.
Looking forward to seeing you around, Chris!
Statistics: Posted by Swanwhite — Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:15 pm
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I would like to say that Narnia was always around me as a Child, but I didn't really know it as Narnia. I was first introduced by watching the BBC movies (which my brother insisted we watch) and by watching the animated movie, which I found more (I am told I was Narnia was read to me as a Child, but I have no memory of it.) And then again when my parents purchased us the Focus on the family audio dramas which my brother and I Both enjoyed.
I didn't really come to comprehension about the movie till 2005 and the coming of the Walden movie. I found this site during one particularly boring day while waiting in a lobby of my dad's work to get Internet. And a few years after I joined although my name was considerably longer then.
(but that's another story for another time.) My favorite Narnia Characters are Lucy, Edmund and Peter with the Horse and His Boy and LWW, being my favorite although I also have a great love of MN and PC as well. It's interesting that you mention you enjoy building computers! What sort of computers do you build? Laptops? Desktops? Mac? I have only really very timidly started to explore the insides of laptops though, and replaced a few parts, although I have been fascinated by them since being a child and bringing home a pop-up book from school about desktop computers.
I hope you'll have a great time here and welcome again!
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Statistics: Posted by hobbit_of_narnia — Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:03 am
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I was forced through the wardrobe in 2005 when my best friend at the time made me borrow her Focus on the Family CDs. She realized her “mistake” later when I became a full-fledged fan, surpassing even her love of the series. I found TLC through looking up a question I thought I’d read an answer for somewhere. Didn’t find the answer, haha, but I lurked around the home page for a year or two before finally getting onto the forum and, later, chat.
We’ve been pretty quiet in here lately, but I look forward to seeing what you’ll bring to the table! We’ve got a bunch of different threads, so jump into whatever catches your fancy and see where it goes!
Statistics: Posted by Ariel.of.Narnia — Sun Nov 15, 2020 6:44 am
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I guess before I begin, thank you so much to Swanwhite, Kristi, and Ariel Knight for the welcome and for helping me get my account up and running - and I apologize again for somehow, in the course of a week, inexplicably breaking everything. Seems everything's alright now, I think it goes without saying that the Admins here are above and beyond!
Anyways hello everyone, my name is Chris. I'm a professing Christian and I've been a Narnia fan for a while. I'd say I've been one since the day the teacher made me and my class read The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe in elementary school, but can I really use the word "made" when I eagerly tore through the book, got lost in the story, and had to pretend I didn't finish three week's worth of assigned reading in advance? It didn't take too long to read all seven books ... and re-read ... and re-read ... and wear out those physical copies beyond redemption. That's what you get when you just pick up a softcover, I guess.
Only recently did I re-read the series, too many years later after I last finished. I've been trying to dive back into reading something other than engineering textbooks and, my goodness, reading Narnia again felt like returning home after a massive leave of absence. It had been so long, in fact, that I couldn't recall if the Green Lady was actually the White Witch or not - but thankfully a quick search brought me here and I got an answer to the question. That's how I found The Lion's Call and, honestly, I'm excited to be a part of the fun.
Aside from Narnia (my favorite of the books being The Silver Chair), my hobbies include building computers, programming, animation, and Lego. I also really love rock and heavy metal - especially songs and bands with Christian perspectives - and have plenty of recommendations if that's your sorta thing.
I'm excited for what lies ahead here!
Statistics: Posted by chris — Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:18 am
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