Winged Lion Press has provided two copies of The Hidden Story of Narnia and one copy of Speaking of Jack: A C.S. Lewis Discussion Guide for giveaway (listen to the current podcast to learn the books).
Please note this contest is ONLY open to those living in the U.S. (sorry, but it’s the publisher who mails the prize and they set the limits). See complete rules below.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO ENTER is simply leave a comment below about ANY fact about NARNIA that you know, or can find. Only enter ONCE.
Deadline to enter is Thursday, September 26th at 6 p.m. Eastern.
THREE random individuals from those who enter will be the winners! It will also be random as to which book you win. You will be notified by email, so leave an address you check frequently (it will be from lewisminute (at) gmail.com).
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Narnia fact: Once a king or queen in Narnia, always a king or queen in Narnia!
The lamp-post that Lucy saw when she first found Narnia was “planted” by Jadis – the evil Queen of Charn who had ripped an iron cross bar of a lamp-post in England and threw the bar at Aslan as he was singing Narnia into existence.
I love Narnia so much because Aslan is the true king.
C.s. lewis originally intended to revise the narnia books for accuracy.
Also one of the first suggested title s for the horse and his boy was to narnia and the north !
Puddleglum is a Marshwiggle from the Marshes in Narnia.
I love the entire cast of the Narnia books and I have seen all the movies as well. The character I like the best is Lucy and the part where she learns that even though she is not as pretty as Susan (in her eyes), she is beautiful in Aslan’s and everyone else’s view.
A fact that makes me terribly sad is the Queen Susan chooses to not be a friend of Narnia at the end because she is too involved in thing of the world.
The name Narnia is Latin, referring to “Narni” an ancient town in Italy.
during the second world war, CS Lewis took in children to get them away from the nazi air raids. He didn’t have any kids himself, so he found the best way to keep their minds occupied was to tell them stories. the opening of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe was inspired by a very close resemblance to the children living with Lewis at the time who saw him as “an old professor”.
Lewis wrote the Narnia stories as a tale of fantasy and adventure so the children could have something to take their minds away from the war-at-hand, while still adding the beliefs of Christianity through metaphors and different physical forms for different people or situations so a child could easily understand it, (i.e. Aslan – Jesus; Jadis – Lucifer; the Stone Table – Jesus dying and being raised again; Eustace as a dragon being turned back to human – not being able to truly have our sins forgiven without the help of Jesus Christ). In The Last Battle we see a depiction of what Lewis thinks Heavan will be like. In the book, Narnia falls into total darkness and is flooded and essentially destroyed, but through the doorway is a new, better Narnia where everyone can be happy without fear or pain as long as they believe in Narnia and Aslan. We see with Susan what happens when you deny Him, you cannot enter the new Narnia/Heaven. Writing it this way allowed the children to understand the importance of believing in Jesus and that no matter what bad things happen there is always a better place waiting for them.
Aslan sings to create Narnia
The Narnian world is only one world connected with many other worlds, including Earth. They are all connected together in the “Wood between the Worlds.”
Digory uses the tree grown from the apple taken from Narnia to make a wardrobe, which he keeps in his home, and through which Lucy discovers Narnia.
Narnia has sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages! Further Up and Further In!
Dwarfs are called sons of Earth by Aslan and humans are called sons of Adam and Eve.
Ramandu is a star at rest and lives on the island at the edge of the world, aging backward until he is as old as the child born yesterday, when he will return to the sky. He informs Eustace that even our world a star is not a “huge ball of flaming gas” as that is only what a star is made of. ~ Beautiful~
C.S. Lewis got the inspiration for the Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe through dreams involving a fawn in winter and a great lion.
Narnia fact: Prior to writing ‘The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,’ C. S. Lewis had been having dreams about lions.
There are at least three different orders in which to read the books: Publication Order, Chronological Order, or Written Order.
Aslan is Turkish for “lion.”
Children in Calormen are brought up to tell stories just as English children are taught to write essays. The difference is that people rather like to hear the stories, whereas [no one likes} to read the essays.
C.S. Lewis became close friends with J. R. R. Tolkein and were both part of the Inklings, which was an Oxford literary group that encouraged fantasy writing.
Aslan is not the only lion in Narnia.
Narnia fact: Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia!.
Another fact: I love these stories.
The witch demands Edwin’s life because he is a traitor. Aslan gives his life for Edwin’s life
When the Talking Animals go astray from Aslan/Narnia, they cease to become Talking Animals
I would have loved to be there when Aslan sang the world into existence! And Aslan said “the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground.”
Narnia was only the reflection of the even better world after. “Farther up and deeper in!”
Susan did not see the end of Narnia. Sad day 🙁
C. S. Lewis may have taken the name from the Italian town of Narni, whose Latin name was in fact Narnia. The official reading order of the Chronicles of Narnia is ‘The Magician’s Nephew’, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, ”The Horse and His Boy ‘, ’Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia’, ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’, ’The Silver Chair’, and lastly, ’The Last Battle’.
Aslan is the Turkish word for lion. He’s not a tame lion…
“Don’t worry, we’ll see him again”.
you can outgrow Narnia
Time is different in Narnia. One year in our world may be minutes, or may be hundreds of years in Narnia. (hence why the Pevensies jump around from the beginning of Narnia to the very end)
There were 11 named humans who entered Narnia.
Cor (Shasta) and Aravis were married because they were so used to quarreling and making up again, they decided to do it more conveniently!
Infants in our world only go to Narnia when something it’s wrong. And Narnia continues being amazing in the rest of the time. Things don’t happen twice in the same way.
Aslam is the main riler of Narnia.
I so wished that the older ones were getting to old to keep moving with the story, but the youngest can keep the story going. I enjoy them all.
In The Horse and His Boy. There was only one lion. It was Aslan that brought Shasta Aravis Bree and Hwin together. It was Aslan that slept at Shasta’s back during the night at the tombs. And Aslan who chased them the last stretch so Shasta could reach king lune in time.
Also in Illinois about 30 miles outside Chicago there is a property in tribute to c.s. Lewis and Narnia. There is a statue of Aslan at the gates. From the gates we could see statues of other characters from all the stories. In recent years they have open the property and now allow banquets and weddings. But I remember going there as a child in search for the white stag (as we were told there had been sightings of one near the property) and wishing there was magic there to take us into the world of Narnia.
Reading the books in the order they were released by C.S. Lewis originally is MUCH more riveting than the new order that the publisher is now releasing!
The final battle is between the armies of Aslan and of Tash.
Aslan is a lion
And the donkey wasn’t the lion…
The Chronicles of Narnia have sold over 100 million books, in 47 languages.
Professor Kirke is Digory from The Magician’s Nephew 🙂
Fact about Aslan:
Is he safe?
No – but he’s good.
Originally The Chronicles of Narnia were a trilogy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Have you ever noticed that VDT has a bit of finality to it at the end?
Humans brought the first evil (white witch) to Narnia even before it was completely created.
Narnia fact: When Jadis ate the apple from the tree that Digory got the apple from, she began more pale and miserable because she had climbed over the wall instead of going through the gate.
Aslan is Turkish for lion.
The subtitle of Prince Caspian is “Return to Narnia”!
(I have both these books, so if I win I will donate them to my church library 🙂
J.R.R. Tolkien did not like The Chronicles of Narnia, although he loved the first two installments of the Ransom Trilogy.
The Chronicles of Narnia has been adapted for radio, television, the stage, and film.
Queen Jadis brought a lantern piece into Narnia and threw it at Aslan as he was creating Narnia. It fell into the ground and grew into the lamp-post.
Narnia should be read in publication order!
The contest is over now.
Don’t worry if you didn’t see your post listed here to enter. We still got it and I’m not sure why all the entries didn’t show.
Please note this contest is ONLY open to those living in the U.S. (sorry, but it’s the publisher who mails the prize and they set the limits). See complete rules below.
Narnia fact: Once a king or queen in Narnia, always a king or queen in Narnia!
The lamp-post that Lucy saw when she first found Narnia was “planted” by Jadis – the evil Queen of Charn who had ripped an iron cross bar of a lamp-post in England and threw the bar at Aslan as he was singing Narnia into existence.
I love Narnia so much because Aslan is the true king.
C.s. lewis originally intended to revise the narnia books for accuracy.
Also one of the first suggested title s for the horse and his boy was to narnia and the north !
Puddleglum is a Marshwiggle from the Marshes in Narnia.
I love the entire cast of the Narnia books and I have seen all the movies as well. The character I like the best is Lucy and the part where she learns that even though she is not as pretty as Susan (in her eyes), she is beautiful in Aslan’s and everyone else’s view.
A fact that makes me terribly sad is the Queen Susan chooses to not be a friend of Narnia at the end because she is too involved in thing of the world.
The name Narnia is Latin, referring to “Narni” an ancient town in Italy.
during the second world war, CS Lewis took in children to get them away from the nazi air raids. He didn’t have any kids himself, so he found the best way to keep their minds occupied was to tell them stories. the opening of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe was inspired by a very close resemblance to the children living with Lewis at the time who saw him as “an old professor”.
Lewis wrote the Narnia stories as a tale of fantasy and adventure so the children could have something to take their minds away from the war-at-hand, while still adding the beliefs of Christianity through metaphors and different physical forms for different people or situations so a child could easily understand it, (i.e. Aslan – Jesus; Jadis – Lucifer; the Stone Table – Jesus dying and being raised again; Eustace as a dragon being turned back to human – not being able to truly have our sins forgiven without the help of Jesus Christ). In The Last Battle we see a depiction of what Lewis thinks Heavan will be like. In the book, Narnia falls into total darkness and is flooded and essentially destroyed, but through the doorway is a new, better Narnia where everyone can be happy without fear or pain as long as they believe in Narnia and Aslan. We see with Susan what happens when you deny Him, you cannot enter the new Narnia/Heaven. Writing it this way allowed the children to understand the importance of believing in Jesus and that no matter what bad things happen there is always a better place waiting for them.
Aslan sings to create Narnia
The Narnian world is only one world connected with many other worlds, including Earth. They are all connected together in the “Wood between the Worlds.”
Digory uses the tree grown from the apple taken from Narnia to make a wardrobe, which he keeps in his home, and through which Lucy discovers Narnia.
Narnia has sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages! Further Up and Further In!
Dwarfs are called sons of Earth by Aslan and humans are called sons of Adam and Eve.
Ramandu is a star at rest and lives on the island at the edge of the world, aging backward until he is as old as the child born yesterday, when he will return to the sky. He informs Eustace that even our world a star is not a “huge ball of flaming gas” as that is only what a star is made of. ~ Beautiful~
C.S. Lewis got the inspiration for the Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe through dreams involving a fawn in winter and a great lion.
Narnia fact: Prior to writing ‘The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,’ C. S. Lewis had been having dreams about lions.
There are at least three different orders in which to read the books: Publication Order, Chronological Order, or Written Order.
Aslan is Turkish for “lion.”
Children in Calormen are brought up to tell stories just as English children are taught to write essays. The difference is that people rather like to hear the stories, whereas [no one likes} to read the essays.
C.S. Lewis became close friends with J. R. R. Tolkein and were both part of the Inklings, which was an Oxford literary group that encouraged fantasy writing.
Aslan is not the only lion in Narnia.
Narnia fact: Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia!.
Another fact: I love these stories.
The witch demands Edwin’s life because he is a traitor. Aslan gives his life for Edwin’s life
When the Talking Animals go astray from Aslan/Narnia, they cease to become Talking Animals
I would have loved to be there when Aslan sang the world into existence! And Aslan said “the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground.”
Narnia was only the reflection of the even better world after. “Farther up and deeper in!”
Susan did not see the end of Narnia. Sad day 🙁
C. S. Lewis may have taken the name from the Italian town of Narni, whose Latin name was in fact Narnia. The official reading order of the Chronicles of Narnia is ‘The Magician’s Nephew’, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, ”The Horse and His Boy ‘, ’Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia’, ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’, ’The Silver Chair’, and lastly, ’The Last Battle’.
Aslan is the Turkish word for lion. He’s not a tame lion…
“Don’t worry, we’ll see him again”.
you can outgrow Narnia
Time is different in Narnia. One year in our world may be minutes, or may be hundreds of years in Narnia. (hence why the Pevensies jump around from the beginning of Narnia to the very end)
There were 11 named humans who entered Narnia.
Cor (Shasta) and Aravis were married because they were so used to quarreling and making up again, they decided to do it more conveniently!
Infants in our world only go to Narnia when something it’s wrong. And Narnia continues being amazing in the rest of the time. Things don’t happen twice in the same way.
Aslam is the main riler of Narnia.
I so wished that the older ones were getting to old to keep moving with the story, but the youngest can keep the story going. I enjoy them all.
In The Horse and His Boy. There was only one lion. It was Aslan that brought Shasta Aravis Bree and Hwin together. It was Aslan that slept at Shasta’s back during the night at the tombs. And Aslan who chased them the last stretch so Shasta could reach king lune in time.
Also in Illinois about 30 miles outside Chicago there is a property in tribute to c.s. Lewis and Narnia. There is a statue of Aslan at the gates. From the gates we could see statues of other characters from all the stories. In recent years they have open the property and now allow banquets and weddings. But I remember going there as a child in search for the white stag (as we were told there had been sightings of one near the property) and wishing there was magic there to take us into the world of Narnia.
Reading the books in the order they were released by C.S. Lewis originally is MUCH more riveting than the new order that the publisher is now releasing!
The final battle is between the armies of Aslan and of Tash.
Aslan is a lion
And the donkey wasn’t the lion…
The Chronicles of Narnia have sold over 100 million books, in 47 languages.
Professor Kirke is Digory from The Magician’s Nephew 🙂
Fact about Aslan:
Is he safe?
No – but he’s good.
Originally The Chronicles of Narnia were a trilogy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Have you ever noticed that VDT has a bit of finality to it at the end?
Humans brought the first evil (white witch) to Narnia even before it was completely created.
Narnia fact: When Jadis ate the apple from the tree that Digory got the apple from, she began more pale and miserable because she had climbed over the wall instead of going through the gate.
Aslan is Turkish for lion.
The subtitle of Prince Caspian is “Return to Narnia”!
(I have both these books, so if I win I will donate them to my church library 🙂
J.R.R. Tolkien did not like The Chronicles of Narnia, although he loved the first two installments of the Ransom Trilogy.
The Chronicles of Narnia has been adapted for radio, television, the stage, and film.
Queen Jadis brought a lantern piece into Narnia and threw it at Aslan as he was creating Narnia. It fell into the ground and grew into the lamp-post.
Narnia should be read in publication order!
The contest is over now.
Don’t worry if you didn’t see your post listed here to enter. We still got it and I’m not sure why all the entries didn’t show.