it's too "twee British fairy tale" type fantasy for me with Ma and Pa Woodchuck and such, I'm more into slaughtering orcs by the dozens
The whole series is on archive.org, its definitely worth a watch.
My only gripe is some of the costumes for the animals are uncanny with the oversized noses and shit but I guess with no cgi budget at the time you had to make fantasy creatures like talking animals work somehow.
Recently got an all in one book for a buck from a thrift store and seeing the chronological order confused the fuck out of me, first time reading on a whim but luckily I've been exposed to enough osmosis to know the lion, witch and the wardrobe came first.
That there is the reason I never ordered an all-in-one version.
I've been a raging atheist since I was a teenager and I have always liked the Narnia books. 'Crappy LOTR' is harsh.
Nevertheless it would be interesting to see them interpret the magicians nephew into some sort of live action or animation, I always found it far more abstract compared to the other books in the series. Least the BBC gave us the silver chair...one of the books disney never actually adapted.
I actually still have this on VHS! I lost the slip cover sadly but it was distributed by some christian books company. It was funny in the beginning how they basically make edmond a literal comic book villan in the first half.
Depending on which LOTR he means. If he means Tolkien's novels then he's a monkey. If he's talking about any of the movie versions though then that's fair to say. I'm not as harsh on Peter Jackson's films as I used to be but I still think of them as a disappointing version.
So you wanted to be.. the lord of the rings?I've always wanted a set of their rings
That makes more sense. The first movie was fine but aging up Caspian in the second was dumb as shit. I never watched the third.
Dawn Treader is more of a character study on Eustace than it is a book with a proper plot. I don't think I would have made a movie out of it. I think there were plans to make The Horse and His Boy into a movie at one point and I'm really sorry they didn't make it. I would have loved to see the ridiculous PC casting of the Calormenes.
Anything older than the 5th editions would be rarer than hen's teeth these days, and just as expensive.
The argument over chronological vs release reading order ignores one key fact: Lewis started writing The Magician's Nephew right after Lion. He wanted to release it second, but apparently found it to be the hardest story to write and only completed it much later. If authorial intent is included, the magician's nephew should be the second book. He was also very coy about what order they should be in at the best of times, telling different people different things. Lewis could be surprisingly deceptive when he wanted to be. Shouldn't be too much of a surprise, when you consider he didn't tell some of his closest friends he was married for several years.
That would be a laugh. The Horse and His Boy is my favourite of all the books, simply because it reveals the world to be much larger and broader, rather than just being Narnia and a few hinterlands. There's countries far to the west and south that are hinted at, but never depicted, which gives the world a depth and weight that might not have been missed if they didn't exist, but that definitely improves the whole. Very much in line with Lewis' tendency to layer meanings in his writing.
I first found out about the bbc adaptation after seeing it on a shelf at my local library when I was 10. Initally I was like is this some play version of the disney movies but after bringing it hope I was actually very suprised.
