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Podcast: Fantastical Truth
Episode: 24. How Do We Defeat the Top Seven Myths about The Chronicles of Narnia? Part 1
Description: Is Man A Myth? asks a book belonging to Mr. Tumnus, a Faun from C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series. Yet Christians have our own myths about Narnia. Today we begin to explore a total of seven myths about Lewis’s famed fantasy world.
Myth 7: “The Chronicles show random myths.”
This is a more academic idea, and it goes something like this:
“C. S. Lewis, unlike Tolkien, was mostly messing around in his world-making.”
“He throws in all Greek creatures, plus other fantasy elements, at random.”
“And then, lo, Father Christmas comes bounding in...