Talk:The Chronicles of Narnia

message: There is a hidden note in the criticism section indicating that the section has been discussed at length on the talk page. I don't see that discussion anywhere. Has it been archived? Can anyone point me to its location? Thank you. SunCrow (talk) 17:01, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you check the four archives? Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:09, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

text: It's one thing to disagree with a piece of feminist criticism, but the idea that the term "gender stereotypes" is "extremist terminology" reveals you don't have much contact with the world of literary criticism these days. I can assure you critiques of Lewis's ideas about gender in general are not few, and it shouldn't be surprising to find some attaching to the Chronicles. —VeryRarelyStable (talk) 22:03, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Autumn Wind (talk) 09:35, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There are so many confusions packed into this comment that I'm not going to bother untangling them. —VeryRarelyStable 12:35, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I was going to delete my stupid rant but I don't know if that would be rude/proper. Autumn Wind (talk) 21:56, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: A fellow named Michael Ward believes he has uncovered a one-to-one mapping between the Narnia books and the classical/renaissance mythology of the planets (PhD thesis, published as “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis “). Among many other persuasive ideas, this would anchor the book-order to the originally published order (beginning with The Lion, Ward’s “Jove”). 
Tying Narnia to Lewis’s life-long immersion in Renaissance literature is, of course, a bonus. Jackrepenning (talk) 00:23, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There's already a Planet Narnia subsection in the article; if you think it needs to be expanded, feel most free. —VeryRarelyStable 01:29, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that there's essentially no evidence that Lewis employed such imagery intentionally, the section on Planet Narnia already borders on WP:UNDUE. It's a nice idea, and Lewis would have liked it, but the theory is basically built from whole cloth.  (Not to mention that Lewis evidently thought about starting an 8th book.) -- Elphion (talk) 18:43, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I would dispute the claim that there's "no evidence"; Planet Narnia itself marshals a considerable amount of evidence.  I don't agree with everything Ward says but I am persuaded of his central thesis.  I can even point to one or two things Ward himself doesn't notice but which support said thesis (such as Odinic resonances in The Horse and His Boy) – obviously I can't put such points in the article, because that would be WP:OR.  If any other scholar has followed up Ward's ideas, then an expansion would be in order.  If not, then I guess the existing subsection probably covers as much as there's warrant for by Wikipedia standards of notability. —VeryRarelyStable 01:38, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planet Narnia 

message: I have checked the Talk page archive, but could not find a reason for why in § Reading order, the Earth internal chronology for The Horse and His Boy is bracketed (though I could have missed it). I'm sure there's a reason why only this year is bracketed, but it is not obvious in the text as to why this article displays it as . Perhaps adding hidden text to the article would be a good place to explain this, if not in the visible article itself.
Is it because the four Pevensie children as a group, have not yet stumbled back out of the wardrobe, and so their frame of reference to Earth remains fixed to when they first entered Narnia as a group? — Christopher, Sheridan, OR (talk) 16:34, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect, rather, that the brackets reflect that the time frame in England is not mentioned in the book, since, unlike the others, the book takes place entirely in the Narnian world with no reference to events in our world. -- Elphion (talk) 03:14, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reading order: Bracketed year 

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message: Major spoiler in the description of the article! I was looking forward to reading the series but thank you now I know Narnia is destroyed in the last book? 166.181.81.251 (talk) 12:29, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps you should fully read a book or book series before examining its Wikipedia article. If it's any consolation (and here's another spoiler—read further at your own risk), it was never truly Narnia anyway. pillowcrow 17:07, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoiler