OMG Aslan.

[shadesong]

The trailer to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

I have tears in my eyes. Yes, I am a big dork.

I love these books. The only series I devoured as often as Narnia when I was a kid was the Wrinkle in Time series. And Narnia came first; I imprinted on Narnia.

Someone said that the light pouring out of the wardrobe when Lucy opened it was wrong, and I agree, of course. But otherwise?

I teared up as soon as I saw Aslan.

And oh, oh. The thrones at Cair Paravel. The Witch at the stone table. The everything.

The first books I bought for Elayna were the Narnia books, the box set. (My mother had long since thrown mine away.) I was two months pregnant and had no idea if my baby would be a girl or a boy, so I didn't feel I should make gender-specific decisions like A Little Princess yet.

But I knew that, no matter what gender my baby was, my baby would read and love Narnia.

And she has - not all of the books, but she's started. And she does. I called her down to watch the trailer with me, and she is so excited.

Dude. That was Aslan on my computer. Just as real as if you could walk up to him and bury your face in his mane as you hug him. Aslan.

Comments

Erm...

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

Entire post = link.

Also, I've never been able to make the link work for me. *sigh*

Re: Erm...

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oops! *fixes*

Also - suck. :(

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Dude, you forgot to close your HTML.

So the whole post is a linky.

Something like this.

;)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I have brain damage! *laugh*

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I would not worry that she has not read them all yet. I devoured all of them by the time I was 9 and I am the only one in my circle of friends who does not love and adore each and every one the books. I just don't remember them well enough, I was far too young. I remember the first one (the real first one) best. I still think about portions of that books, but I could take or leave the others.

[phantom_wolfboy]

I'm curious: you don't remember them. You don't re-read them?

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

I jsut showed that to the kids I babysit for. Julia's eyes got SO big and Anthony is now begging me to show it again. I promised I'd take them when I came back for christmas break.

Also: I have the same butterfly feeling I did the night before HP5 was released.... it's antici-

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

-pation!



(Well, somebody had to say it.)

[mendoza.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. That gave me chills.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

"Of course he's not safe. But he's Good."

What a wise line. I had forgotten that theme.

[ewin.livejournal.com]

Ooo.

Is that Tilda Swinton playing the White Witch there?

Ooo.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yep. :)

[amokk]

As long as she reads them in the proper order, and not that new-fangled order that screws everything up. I think we've had this discussion before, though. ;)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*nods* Magician's Nephew = #6, dammit.

Saw it too.

[hasfartogo.livejournal.com]

Looks cool!

I also saw previews for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. *very big grin* Can't wait for November.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Wow. They didn't break a damn thing. I'm not sure I can watch this in a cinema; large hairy men crying are scary.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

I seriously doubt you'll be the only one. I think this one's near and dear to a lot of our hearts.

Hey, if you're a dork...

[ydnic.livejournal.com]

...then so am I. :-) I was jumping up and down in my seat at the theatre when we went to see "Hitchhiker's Guide," and they played the "Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe" trailer. I have been waiting since 1973 for this. ;-)

[littlebuhnee.livejournal.com]

My in-laws showed me the trailer last weekend, and I added it to the Must See movie list. Yesterday, I made a beeline to the bookstore and bought a nice, thick copy of the complete works. I'm in love all over again.

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure who's wants to see this more, you or my wife (http://www.livejournal.com/users/eclectic_1/46422.html). :)

For what ever reason I did not read these as a child so I don't have quite as much emotional attachment to Narnia as the two of you do but I'm looking forward to them too. We are reading them to Sarah and Elizabeth now.

[corwinok.livejournal.com]

I think I need to change my shorts. Just as soon as my hackles return from their upright and locked position.

I wish that download had completed before Brianna got picked up. I cannot wait to show that to her tomorrow!

Narnia?

[lamaupin.livejournal.com]

What exactly are the books about? And for what age level are they appropriate? Do they have strong/positive female figures or good morals?

I've never read them, but I have two young nieces...

Re: Narnia?

[moniqueleigh]

I've no idea what age level they're for. I didn't discover them until I was... 8? 9? I know I'd read them by the time I reached 5th grade. But I have insane reading levels (finished everything in the 2nd grade library before the 1st semester of 1st grade was done).

But yes, they have wonderful morals. And there are some good female characters, & some bad, & the same for males. The main characters are children, so you get kids being kids, sometimes they're good, sometimes misguided, etc. This is probably one of the most complete sites out there. Once you enter the site, click "the chronicles" for details on the creation, each book, etc.

[moniqueleigh]

YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes

I've been squeeing over this one for some time now. And I'm joining with the folks yelling WTF?? at the new ordering. Hrmph. I went to buy a set for Galoot (he's never read them before), & just boggled at the shelf. Couldn't buy it. Will instead dig out my old copies & figure out which ones are missing (I bought some & then read the rest at a cousin's house).

[catvalente.livejournal.com]

I feel the same--which is why I may not want to see the movies. I'm sick of everything I love in my own, private, individual way beign turned into a Big Movie. I like /my/ Frodo, /my/ Lucy. My imagination shouldn't have to be raped by precocious actors and flawed directors ideas about the book. Why can't books just be books anymore? The natural destiny of literature is not necessarily film. I like books to stay books, just once in awhile, so the peculiar alchemy between writer and reader can stay just that: peculiar. Not packaged and sold at Taco Bell.

[meeaparkins.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[wakingdreaming.livejournal.com]

I tried to watch a trailer on my computer but this machine is slow and stupid so all I got was broken up dialogue and a quick flash of a picture every 15 seconds or so. What I did see of it, the computer animation parts looked really, really fake, I thought. But I certainly did not get a good look at all. Did you find it satisfactory?

Maybe they will take out the light coming from the wardrobe before the movie comes out. We can always hope. Because that is definitely not right.

The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe is the first book I remember reading. A friend of my Mom's bought me the entire boxed set when I was little and my Mom started reading me that one, but she wasn't reading fast enough, so I picked it up and read it on my own. I've read the entire series countless times. I have those books to thank for my continued interest in fantasy and mythic fiction and such to this day.

Oh, the movies had BETTER be EXCELLENT or I'm going to be sooooooooo upset. I'm worried about them because of the director. I HATED Shrek. These had better not have any shreds of the crap in Shrek in them or, or... I don't know what, but it won't be good. I'm so glad Weta is doing the special effects. They did an amazing job on Lord Of The Rings, so I'm hoping the brief images I saw were... I don't know... my eyes playing tricks on me or something, because what I saw looked not much better than the old BBC animated Narnia movies.

I have such high hopes. I really don't want to be disappointed.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Being a "teaser trailer," you only get seconds of footage at a time -- but the quality is similar to Lord of the Rings.

[wytchchyld.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooooooh.

When I was a child, my grandparents on my mother's side had a huge old wardrobe in their house. From the time I was five (which was when I read LWW), I would end up in that wardrobe, curled up in the back, and asleep. Because I wanted to find the way to Narnia and you had to be IN the wardrobe.

I think I might have been an odd child ...

[meeaparkins.livejournal.com]

in the best way! *grin*

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*happybouncydancything*

Until then, I need to find a copy of the animated TV version from, when was it, 1980 or so? Not the cheesy BBC version....

[megthelegend.livejournal.com]

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the very first play I was ever in. I was 12. I played Lucy.

Man, the memories! I loved the books, too, and it was so DAMN COOL to live out going through the wardrobe, meeting Mr Tumnus, getting picked up and whirled around by Aslan.

Hey!

[hasfartogo.livejournal.com]

Patrick Troughton's Doctor!?

[enotnert.livejournal.com]

i never read the narnia series, even though my cousin pestered me to. .

the wrinkle in time series, tesseracts, etc so forth and so on

that FUCKING ENTHRALLED me

no book caught my attention that way until i was given "hitchhikers guide" my sophmore year of college

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

I read the entire collection when I was about 7 or 8. I love the Narnia series, I've seen part of the trailer and got all goosebumpy. Another book in a similar vein is Elidor by Alan Garner. The creature in that is a unicorn. I've just found the book again after years of searching and I enjoyed it as much this time as I did the first time. Review (http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book.php?id=10)

It's an old book (1965) and hard to find in print but worth looking - I got mine from eBay.

[ayalanya.livejournal.com]

yeah - shivers, tears, everything. what i saw...it was almost exactly the mental images i have whenever i read the books. damn, though, the books are already packed. will have to read them after i move.

looking forward to the movie.

[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

I just watched the trailer all the way through. I'm still all goosebumpy and I can't wait for it to come out.