11. Call me crazy but it seems like Prince Caspian and A Horse and His Boy are each about a race war.

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.

"fantasy racism" i believe, or at least the sci fi version is "space racism"

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.

14. Back on Earth, in a milieu as captious and cutthroat as 20th century English high society, how could four siblings go missing—twice—without their adult caretakers getting investigated? Which hapless adult ended up on the dock for kidnapping these little bastards?

15. Even if Aslan had no other power but to teleport children to Narnia, are four pampered pre-teen colonialist boarding schoolers really the best he could find? Could he really not find a child soldier, a child emperor, or even a child laborer anywhere on Earth during World War II?

16. Aslan told Lucy that “every year you grow, you will find me bigger.” So when Lucy directly interacts with Aslan, that would look like some kind of visual glitch to the others, right? Like a clipping error or a broken link?

17. If the Telmarines were originally descended from earthlings, what makes their claim to the Narnian throne any less legitimate than the Pevensies’?

18. Does this mean what I think it means about Eustace’s parents’ religion? The first three are true of me but I’ve never been religious enough to affect my underoos.

That could be a Mormanism reference... all the temperance, plus magic underoos? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_...

That’s exactly what I was thinking too!

19. It seems like many of Aslan’s actions are not altruistic but conditional or transactional. Could one perhaps argue that Aslan is a vehicle for inculcating children with a capitalist deity?

20. If earthlings can just get teleported right onto a moving ship in Narnia, how many human beings on Earth have died by randomly getting blinked into the middle of The Great Eastern Ocean?

oh many that first line though, pretty sick burn lmao

One of my favorite first sentences in literature!