It's a mistake to assume that things like that necessarily happen to punish people. Pardon me for answering a question with a question, but where in the books does it say that the death of Susan's family members was a punishment for her? Everyone dies and tragic accidents happen all the time. That means the Old Narnians probably could have sounded the horn multiple times and gotten way more help than they did. Similar to the above, myths about Susan's horn probably sprung up in the time between LWW and PC. After all, it had been a long time and there are such things as historical misconceptions.Ģ. It's also possible Nikabrik was wrong about the White Witch stamping out beavers. Beaver were the last of their species and never had any offspring. (Actually, they might not include any of your questions because you're posting them in the comments instead of sending them to /stump.) So you won't be disappointed, I'll try to answer.ġ. The first three of those are more like plot holes or speculative questions that trivia questions so I doubt they'll be on the episode. An entire dimension of Narnia gets ignored if we do that. (Strange that Tolkien thought they were too blatantly religious, though.)īut really, we should still consider what Lewis was basically trying to say with these stories, not just tell people that they're fun to read and leave it at that. The religious elements are undeniably there, just not always in your face. Narnia is just a collection of wonderful stories with religious themes lurking in the shadows and occasionally showing themselves. He didn't even conceive Aslan until he kept having dreams about lions that wouldn't go away! He didn't devote the entire story to symbolism, so you are correct in saying it's not allegory. Actually, you're right: Lewis said that he wasn't originally thinking of a religious story, but he started to see things in his evolving stories that could work as symbols for deeper things, and began to write with those things in mind.

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