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simaethae replied to your post:
                   So, what is your overall opinion on the Narnia…                

   Very Tiny Christian Me picked up the allegory right away and
eventually, worriedly, asked her parents if it wasn’t blasphemy to
compare a lion to jesus, which is probably not what CS Lewis was going
for >_> I loved the books but feel they are probably best left for
me in the warm glow of childhood (as with The Hobbit, which, alas, is
not something i can reread with much enjoyment as an adult)   

Oh dear poor you 😦 I do remember picking up on the allegory too even though (because?) I was never raised christian, but I actually forget what my initial reaction to it was. I know I was not bothered by christian allegories per se but otoh uhhhh…being nonwhite, nonchristian…as with the racism and stuff there were a whole lot of kids’ fantasy and adventure books that would have been impossible for me to enjoy if I didn’t take them with a lot of salt. But for Aslan etc I think I was actually pretty serious about it in a ‘oooh where is he going with this’ sort of way until ‘where he was going with this’ turned out to be the Last Battle lmao and I was super unimpressed and felt cheated or whatever

simaethae replied to your post:                   So, what is your overall opinion on the Narnia…                

   (that proably came out wrong, it’s more that i remember being super
immersed and caught up in what was happening to the characters as a kid,
and it’s not really the same experience when you have everything that
happens next memorised)    

Haha I have heard hearsay that this is, apparently, a phenomenon that happens to other people but unfortunately I can’t relate because having every single thing memorized IS the entire appeal of childhood books for me 😀 Probably because I re-read everything I liked so much when I was a kid that I had them totally memorized even back then or something idk.

kareenvorbarra replied to your post:              elesianne replied to your post:                …                

   okay! i figured it might be that but i don’t remember the last
battle very well, i think it’s the only one of the narnia books i’ve
never reread because i hated it. so much. by the time i read it i was
old enough that the religious allegory didn’t just go over my head
anymore, and the ending of that book is SO heavy-handed i couldn’t take
it.   

A GOOD DECISION. I think I DID read parts of the Last Battle a LOT trying to figure out if I missed something that would make it better! But no. 🙂 I think like, detached from the book series’ narrative, I actually did like some of the imagery near the end in terms of like…how he wrote and conveyed it. I was (still am) very into religious/spiritual/mythological imagery. But the actual story ruined it >_<

maedhrosrussandol replied to your post:               So, what is your overall opinion on the Narnia…                

   I’ve loved those books since I first read them as a 10 year old.
Like LOTR and the Hobbit, I used to reread them over and over. I think
LOTR and the Hobbit hold up better in the long run but I still
appreciate them. Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was always my
favorite–sentimental likely as it was the first one I read and I was
mesmerised by the idea of Narnia.    

Heh yeah me too ❤ I feel a little bad about how negative that post got but I just assumed the anon was probably referring to the religious stuff since it was in response to me talking about tolkien’s religious stuff…and IMO Lewis’ religious stuff is genuinely just nowhere near as good, though I don’t exactly have the formal education to be able to write a whole clear post about it.