@Swan: I like that evangelism angle to the statues!
Seems like everyone has a different idea of what it was like for the kids to return from Narnia. I like the "waking from a dream" thought: it perfectly describes how they seamlessly fit right back into this world.
Love your stag!
@Ajjie: Your observation on Aslan and Bree rolling... 😆 😆 😆
Uh.... We must have been told a hundred years at some point, yes? I can't for the life remember where that might be?
@Ren: I particularly like the way you did Susan on that one.
Starting off with sets for day 8. (And yes, I'm fully aware that I did the poem backward.)
Chapter 17
The little exchange between Aslan and Lucy regarding the wounded... that's a hard lesson. I totally get that Lucy wants to stay to ensure that the cordial does its work on Edmund, so I understand when she tells Aslan to wait. But Aslan reminds her that others need help, and may even be on the brink of death themselves. Would she sacrifice them for Edmund? But not only is this a practical lesson, to be applied down the road, but a lesson in trust: she has done what she can, and must continue to do so, whether or not she witnesses the miracle herself.
Like Ajjie, something about the merfolk struck me. Not their sudden appearance, but the fact that they're Narnian citizens. They've got a great, wide ocean and the chance to be their own people, but here they are, citizens of a land nation. I suddenly want to know how that came about. Was it like this since creation? Did these merfolk make that decision to join Narnia? Did a Narnian king save them from some terrible thing? or beat them in battle?
It seriously puzzles me that they would have forgotten the lamppost. Even if we take Lucy's telling of the wardrobe in HHB as an inconsistency against the whole forgetting-this-world thing, you'd think the lamppost would be a notable landmark. Tumnus lives not far from it, and surely they'd gone through those woods in hunting the Witch's following. Unless the same magic that caused them to forget this world caused them to forget the lamppost? It is, after all, the catalyst to their returning memories.
@Ariel: I've often wondered about the lamppost myself. Here's a link to where I brought it up on the Narniaweb forum a while ago: https://community.narniaweb.com/index.php/community/talk-about-narnia/the-problem-of-the-lamppost/#post-4291
Some have suggested that the White Stag somehow had a confusing effect on his pursuers and thus caused them to forget the lamppost at least temporarily, or that the lamppost reminded the children of the home they had left, so they shut out that memory from their minds until they forgot it.
Chapter 17
Some of the things I noticed was how foreboding their approach to the wardrobe feels and how Susan is still the cautious one. She's the most reluctant to enter Narnia and the most reluctant to leave. I think she struggles with change which I can relate to.
I Love this insight into Susan, Swan,
and your observation of the return,
and your glorious stag!
I guess I just love your whole post!
B/L
Wow! @Swan, that stag is amazing!! 😮
Sorry that I'm a day late. But here is my last drawing for this challenge 😀
Love your Pevensies!
@Benisse I like the photo-haiku format! They complement each other well. Kudos to Eden playing Lucy!
I'm impressed you could figure out that was Eden's hand in the photo!
I loved reading the posts in this thread -- sorry I got distracted in the world of Spare Oom so did n't get very far in this challenge. But my family is actually starting to read through all seven Chronicles (we are currently in Magician's Nephew). So when we start LWW maybe I can start adding to this thread even though this reading schedule is past.
Thank you, everyone, for the compliments for my drawings! Really appreciate it!
And thank you all for having me! It was a lot of fun!
Great work everyone! I love seeing all the graphics and art, etc. 😀
I am very late but this is...my single contribution, made in a great hurry.
I know I'm breaking my tradition of doing a series of pencil drawings, but I didn't have a scanner while I was in the States so I had to do a digital piece. Because of the vertical layout it can technically be used as a phone wallpaper...
It might be a bit big....I'll scale it down later if y'all think it kinda messes with the forum view.
Nice, Hobbit!
That is so lovely Hobbit!
