Narnia Misconceptions and where they come from
Posted: Jun 01, 2017 11:20 pm
I thought this would be a cool idea for a topic.
I keep stumbling upon angry 'fan' posts on facebook and other sites about how The Magician's Nephew should be the next movie made because it's the next book in order and if they do SC next they'll be going out of order. I'm calling this a straight out misconception, as opposed to attributing it to chronological vs publication reading orders because such comments almost always specify that it is the next book in the series where as even with Chronological order MN is long before VDT...
I'm guessing this probably stemmed partly from the confusion of Walden wanting to make MN after VDT as oppossed to following the original publication order. Although there may be a few who think that the movies should be in chronological order since that's how the books are currently published.
What other misconceptions about Narnia have you folks come across? I'm sure there's more - I know at the very least Lewis gets misquoted a lot. Where do you think these myths and misconceptions come from? How did they start? Is it due to an innocent mistake or did someone change something on purpose? Are there any that you thought were true until you found out otherwise?
I think another example may be that Lucy sees Susan in the spellbook in VDT - perhaps due to the BBC (and later the Walden version) changing the scene from the book (in the book she just sees an incredibly beautiful woman)
I keep stumbling upon angry 'fan' posts on facebook and other sites about how The Magician's Nephew should be the next movie made because it's the next book in order and if they do SC next they'll be going out of order. I'm calling this a straight out misconception, as opposed to attributing it to chronological vs publication reading orders because such comments almost always specify that it is the next book in the series where as even with Chronological order MN is long before VDT...
I'm guessing this probably stemmed partly from the confusion of Walden wanting to make MN after VDT as oppossed to following the original publication order. Although there may be a few who think that the movies should be in chronological order since that's how the books are currently published.
What other misconceptions about Narnia have you folks come across? I'm sure there's more - I know at the very least Lewis gets misquoted a lot. Where do you think these myths and misconceptions come from? How did they start? Is it due to an innocent mistake or did someone change something on purpose? Are there any that you thought were true until you found out otherwise?
I think another example may be that Lucy sees Susan in the spellbook in VDT - perhaps due to the BBC (and later the Walden version) changing the scene from the book (in the book she just sees an incredibly beautiful woman)