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Aslan (/ ˈ æ s l æ n, ˈ æ z-/) is a major character in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series. Unlike any other character in the Narnian series, Aslan appears in all seven chronicles. [1] Aslan is depicted as a talking lion and is described as the King of Beasts, the son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea, [2] and the King above all High ...
As the "son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea" (an allusion to God the Father), Aslan is the all-powerful creator of Narnia. Lewis revealed that he wrote Aslan as a portrait, although not an allegorical portrait, of Christ. [8] The White Witch is the land's self-proclaimed queen and the primary antagonist of the story. Her reign in Narnia has made ...
Approximately two hundred Narnia years after the events of The Silver Chair, Jill and Eustace return to save Narnia from the ape Shift, who tricks Puzzle the donkey into impersonating the lion Aslan, thereby precipitating a showdown between the Calormenes and King Tirian. This leads to the end of Narnia as it is known throughout the series, but ...
In The Magician's Nephew, Lewis presents the creation account for the world of Narnia by the great lion Aslan, who was the first talking animal. As one of the final stages of creation, Aslan calls forth animals from the ground, similar to the biblical story. Later, Aslan grants some of these animals the ability to speak as he does.
The middle third of the novel features the creation of the Narnia world by Aslan the lion, centred on a section of a lamp-post brought by accidental observers from London in 1900. The visitors then participate in the beginning of Narnia's history, 1000 years before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [ a ] (which inaugurated the series in 1950).
Aslan takes the Friends to a "true" version of Narnia, the previous Narnia having been an imperfect and corruptible shadow. As they advance, the Friends meet and reunite with characters from previous adventures who have been dead for centuries; Aslan reveals that the Friends may also stay as they had died in a train accident on Earth.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 high fantasy film directed by Andrew Adamson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ann Peacock and the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, based on the 1950 novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published and second chronological novel in the children's book series The Chronicles of Narnia ...
With Aslan's permission and blessing, Digory is allowed to take an apple from this tree back to his world to cure his mother. He plants the core in his garden, from which a new tree grows. Years later this tree is blown down by a storm and Digory uses its wood to build the wardrobe that becomes the portal to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and ...