Narnia Series Order
Originally posted by Dave
I never suggested it was.
Sorry, it's just you were talking about The Magician's Nephew as the first book, and to lots of people it isn't. I went over to Amazon trying to figure out when publication rights for the series tranferred from Collier to Collins, and found someone saying, "The order in which the Narnia Chronicles should be read and published is a matter of great controversy." They also mentioned those thoughts of Lewis's on the order from, "a letter written in 1957 (published in 'Letters to Children')," and pointed out that Lewis concluded in the letter, "So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them."
Originally posted by Dave
I think that is the answer.
*Blushes.* I wish I'd been clearer to begin with. Some people, myself among them, are use to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe being the first book. I'd guess the film makers either are use to it that way themselves, or they did some research and found that a large portion of the audience would be use to it.
Originally posted by Dave
Yes, I made a mistake there, of course it was. But, at least I knew Lewis Carroll wrote 'Alice in Wonderland'. 
Sorry, I was just surprised you knew Narnia predates LotR, but didn't know Conan predates them both. Robert E. Howard created a number of different fantasy characters in his life, Conan, Kull, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane. And, while I've never bothered to learn the maps of Middle-Earth, I use to have the maps of Howard's Hyborean Age fully memorized. Obsessive as I am, I can see how someone who isn't into fantasy could go, "C.S. Lewis, Lewis C., through the looking glass, through the wardrobe, what's the difference."
