So....what is the proper order?

In order: (Published)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Prince Caspian (1951)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
The Silver Chair (1953)
The Horse and His Boy (1954)
The Magician's Nephew (1955)
The Last Battle (1956)

Really? I just kinda made that up but....um........okay.:)

I saw this last night the symbolism & parallels to Christianity was awesome.

Asland = Jesus (Lion of Judah)
White Witch = Devil
Edmond = Judas Iscariot
Peter
Thomnas = Thomas

The White Witch telling Thomnas that he was there because Edmond sold him out for treats...

The White Witch telling Asland that she required blood to make up for Edmund's betrayal... (and I didn't catch the next part, but someone with me did) or Narnia would burst into flames (hell)

Asland telling the Witch "How dare you talk to me about the law... I was there when it was written..."

Asland giving himself as a sacrifice in Edmund's place...

Asland taking the walk towards the altar and the crowd mocking him (as in the crucifixion) and then they struck him.

Someone (I think it was the witch) asking why didn't he save himself...

The 2 girls coming to Asland and later finding that he wasn't dead (The women coming to annoint Jesus' body and found that he was not dead)

The splitting of the altar (i.e. the renting of the veil)...

Asland going to the White Witch's castle to free the "frozen" prisoners (i.e. Jesus going to free those in hell)

The one drop of the potion that Lucy carried that could heal any wound - which happened to be red (as in blood)...

There also was an earlier part where Asland crowned Peter as Sir Peter Wolfbane, but I saw this as "upon this rock I will build my church (you have to understand the meaning of the name Peter)".

Because then no plot=no movie! ;)

Seriously, don't you think about this in a lot of the movies you go to? Like when the dumb girl walks into the obviously haunted house and you're thinking, "No, no, don't go in!" But my husband would point out that if she didn't go in, that'd be the end of the story so we might as well leave.

Wooo! We just now saw the movie and are ready to go fight for ASLAN!

And I can't wait for the next one to come out!

OK, totally not about the movie itself, but in case you didn't see the SNL Short "Lazy Sunday" ...this is hilarious

Mr. Pibb + Red Vines = Crazy Delicious

Did anyone else find it amusing that the voice actor for the Christ figure is gay?

Liam Neeson is gay? I bet Natasha Richardson would be surprised to hear that.

My fiancee said the same thing.

I heard it somewhere, then googled a bit to confirm it.

Do you have a link for the page that says he's gay? I googled, but I only found a gay role that he played in a movie. I know that a lot of times when an actor takes on a homosexual role, rumors start to develop that he/she is gay in real life. He's been married since '94, so I doubt he's openly gay.

While this is published order:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Prince Caspian (1951)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
The Silver Chair (1953)
The Horse and His Boy (1954)
The Magician's Nephew (1955)
The Last Battle (1956)

The reading order is:
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

The "new publishers" actually put them in the order that Lewis wanted them to be read in rather than the order they were originally published/writting when they printed the one volume editions. If you have read the books, the stories make more sense because you have more background information when you read them in the order Lewis wanted them to be read.

Sarah

I'm not sure if this question was meant in earnest, but here is the answer:

Because at the beginning of Narnia (which you will find in the book The Magician's Nephew), it was the humans (Sons and Daughters of Adam) who brought evil into Narnia (the White Witch) when it was new and so humans will have to defeat it. Humans were also made the first King and Queen of Narnia.

I would SERIOUSLY recommend reading all the books. They are rather quick reads - or at least read Magician's Nephew, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and the Last Battle if you don't feel like reading all seven! I also would recommend reading some of Lewis' other books - Screwtape Letters, Surprised by Joy, etc.

Sarah

Actually Lewis said to read them in writing order, as they won't make much sense if you don't. As the Magician's Nephew (written next to last) refers back to the books written previously.

How does it refer back to the other books. It gives you the background to the story (who the professor is, where the wardrobe came from and why it is connected to Narnia, where the White Witch came from, why animals talk, etc). Some of the middle ones would not make as much sense if you read them out of chronological order (Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Silver Chair), however you can actually read them in any order you want.

According to Lewis himself:

Sarah