3. If animals can talk in Narnia, and they’re depicted eating meat many times, do the prey animals get a say? I saw hedgehogs eating bacon. Did the hogs (non-hedge) have a chance to make a case for going vegan?
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Not *all* animals can talk in Narnia (it's implied that Talking Animals are somewhat uncommon there and unheard of in the other kingdoms like Calormen and Telmar), and I'm guessing most / all of the for-food animals are supposed to be of the non-talking variety
jul 11, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
I just read where Peter calls Reepicheep an ass. If I was C.S. Lewis, I’d write a talking donkey standing right there saying, “Wow, OK. So that’s what you think of us.”
jul 11, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
4. Wouldn’t anybody be better at statecraft than a handful of privately-educated British children in pinafores on a temporary War Drobian visa?
jun 28, 2025, 2:41 am • 7 0 • view
5. Even my autistic non-Christian ass sees that Aslan dying on the Stone Table for Edmund’s sins was an allegory for Jesus dying for the sins of Man. But I don’t understand who made the rule that someone has to die. There are penalty kicks in soccer but you could just not play soccer.
jun 28, 2025, 2:46 am • 5 0 • view
"But I don’t understand who made the rule that someone has to die." Because it's easier than just taking out the trash or helping with the dishes.
jul 3, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
6. I feel like this series really papers over the misunderstandings that would have to ensue in a world that has both talking horses and centaurs.
jun 28, 2025, 2:57 am • 7 0 • view
7. How do you reconcile free will with prophecies that inevitably come true?
jun 28, 2025, 2:59 am • 6 0 • view
Ask Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which ends in Alice exerting her free will by fulfilling a prophecy
jun 28, 2025, 3:20 am • 2 0 • view
8. Was Narnia ever really that great if two incel dwarves and a talking badger had to squat in the same cave? No, there’s no way that shit was a throuple.
jul 2, 2025, 11:56 pm • 1 0 • view
9. How the heck does Jadis know what Turkish delight is? I only know what Turkish delight is because I live near where they make Aplets & Cotlets, which is a Washingtonian’s go-to gift for tolerated acquaintances.
jul 2, 2025, 11:59 pm • 4 0 • view
10. Why doesn’t Reepicheep just find a bigger warrior and Ratatouille them?
jul 3, 2025, 8:49 am • 3 0 • view
11. Call me crazy but it seems like Prince Caspian and A Horse and His Boy are each about a race war.
jul 10, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
12. Narnia falls into the same trap as Star Trek: each non-human race is a monolith. Almost all dwarves are cantankerous, just like almost all Ferengi are avaricious. Is there a name for this? Rowling is the obvious example of doing this with malice.
jul 10, 2025, 8:47 pm • 1 0 • view
"fantasy racism" i believe, or at least the sci fi version is "space racism"
jul 16, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
13. Edmund and Trumpkin (British for “fart family”) observe that the Pevensies fell into Narnia around 9–10 AM by both worlds’ clocks. But time moves much faster in Narnia. Isn’t it mathematically impossible for the time of day to always match? I’m just saying, I teach calculus.
jul 10, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view