Re: Summer Challenge Sharing Thread 2017
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 10:04 am
@Nia: I guess! But in later books Lewis seems to be against the idea of modern things in Narnia...*siiigh* I love these books so much but sometimes they're just not consistent with each other!
@Ajjie: ...I just assumed that fauns lived much longer than humans. Unicorns and centaurs do, after all. Does it ever specify Tumnus' age, aside from the comment at the end of LWW?
Also I thought the same thing about extended thaws, but these would have to be very extended indeed for the trees to go through the full cycle of buds and then flowers and then leaves. So unless they were "sleeping"...... (Can sentient trees last longer without seasons than "regular" trees, I wonder?)
(I love bunkbeds. I sleep in a loft bed, even though the ceilings here are so low I can't sit up in it without knocking my head...which I still manage to do almost every morning and night.)
I myself was more interested in the marmalade roll than in the fish. It didn't help that I was hungry when I was reading the chapter...
There were a couple of things that stood out to me from today's chapters.
First is the dragon statue in the Witch's courtyard. I mean, I've noticed it pretty much every time I read the book, but it's always just as surprising as it was the first time. There...were...good...dragons...in Narnia. At least that's my interpretation, since why else would she have turned it into stone?
So what happened to the dragons? They're only mentioned a couple of other places in the whole series.
(Also it shows the difference between Edmund and Eustace that although they were both selfish brats at first, Edmund knew what a dragon was before he came to Narnia, but Eustace didn't.)
Second is the stuff that Mrs Beaver gave everyone out of the flask. It sounds suspiciously like the orc-draught Merry and Pippin got...
@Ajjie: ...I just assumed that fauns lived much longer than humans. Unicorns and centaurs do, after all. Does it ever specify Tumnus' age, aside from the comment at the end of LWW?
Also I thought the same thing about extended thaws, but these would have to be very extended indeed for the trees to go through the full cycle of buds and then flowers and then leaves. So unless they were "sleeping"...... (Can sentient trees last longer without seasons than "regular" trees, I wonder?)
(I love bunkbeds. I sleep in a loft bed, even though the ceilings here are so low I can't sit up in it without knocking my head...which I still manage to do almost every morning and night.)
I myself was more interested in the marmalade roll than in the fish. It didn't help that I was hungry when I was reading the chapter...
There were a couple of things that stood out to me from today's chapters.
First is the dragon statue in the Witch's courtyard. I mean, I've noticed it pretty much every time I read the book, but it's always just as surprising as it was the first time. There...were...good...dragons...in Narnia. At least that's my interpretation, since why else would she have turned it into stone?
So what happened to the dragons? They're only mentioned a couple of other places in the whole series.
(Also it shows the difference between Edmund and Eustace that although they were both selfish brats at first, Edmund knew what a dragon was before he came to Narnia, but Eustace didn't.)
Second is the stuff that Mrs Beaver gave everyone out of the flask. It sounds suspiciously like the orc-draught Merry and Pippin got...