@Swanwhite (earlier): Last time I was reading through Narnia I was intrigued by the reference to the bull with the man's head, too, and googled it and immediately facepalmed because
of course!! I'd seen pictures of them before, I'd seen replicas of statues, but it never dawned on me that that's what Lewis was referring to.
@Ajjie: I always assumed that the star was Aravir.....
I loved the romp. In the old cartoon LWW movie, little white flowers sprang up wherever Aslan's feet touched the grass during this romp, which I just thought was the coolest thing. But then I could never remember if it was canon or not...
I guess it's that kangaroos are from Australia. The other animals mentioned in the series seem to be limited to Europe and Africa (or mythology). But now I want to know if there were giant pandas or moose in Narnia, too.
@Ariel:
Thank you!
Day 9:
"And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you heard it? Can you remember?"
Why yes...yes I have. *starts humming*
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying, the wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying...
(Ariel, I think your fandom-crossovering is rubbing off on me! That's literally the first thing that came into my head when I read that line.
)
"...that wonderful hall...hung with peacocks' feathers..."
Was it in the LWW movie commentary that I heard that peacock feathers are supposed to be bad luck? I guess the superstitions in Narnia are different.
Does it ever actually give any description of the Pevensie boys' hair colors? Because for some reason I thought it did at the end of LWW, but I guess not...
(Also, why do the Pevensies use a more modern manner of speech in HHB, instead of the Shakespeare-talk they use at the end of LWW? I feel like Lewis regretted having made that choice by the time he got to HHB and went, ".....maybe nobody'll notice." This has bothered me for yeeeeaaars.
But I love that the narrator's voice changes with the Pevensies'.)
How much did the Narnians freak out when their entire royalty disappeared, I wonder? They're there, and then they're not. Everyone talks about how strange it was for the Pevensies, but I've only seen a couple of things about the Narnians' reactions. The four had courtiers with them on the hunt (who were of some species that could ride, because it mentions the courtiers' horses becoming tired)...were these suspected after the Pevensies' disappearance? I don't mean to be morbid, but...they were last seen in the woods. If one was planning to murder someone else, it's unlikely that investigators could search a whole forest for evidence before it's too late to find any, if you know what I mean. (WOW, that got dark. Why am I even thinking about this??)
Final sketch just for good measure:
(The scanner was being a weirdo today and glaring off all the dark lines.
So the image quality is kind of bad.)