So it wasn't Narnia he went to or he would've come right back out...

Haha, I love the mithril comment.

I hadn't even thought of that.

Come to think of it, that isn't necessarily true. Narnia doesn't have a slower time than our world, it has a completely different time than we do.

He would have to have been in Narnia for a pretty long time for have to never come out...

And the wardrobe doesn't work if you are expecting it to work. Although it worked in the movie...

You all have no idea how tempted I am to direct Andrew Peterson to this discussion.

* likes that idea * * likes that idea very much *

Hmm...

* wonders what that "Hmm..." just might mean... *

It means I just emailed Andrew Peterson and asked. We'll see what happens.

No, he couldn't have... Narnia's time runs faster than ours. So one year over here is a thousand over there and so on... To my memory, there isn't an account where it worked the opposite way, but then again, it's been a bit since I read all the books...

I thought the rule was that the wardrobe only worked if you went into it with a heart of faith or something like that? So that if you're expecting it to work, it does...at least, I think so... * blinks * I need to re-read this book

That can't be right. Edmund entered into the wardrobe without any belief in Narnia and he fully expected to catch Lucy inside. He was in for a rude (and very cold) awakening.

Maybe he did deep down inside think Lucy was telling the truth but hid it all up with his teasing and rudeness.... ? Just a stray thought....

I could be remembering wrong (it's been awhile since I read the books to ) but I've always remembered the emphasis Lewis placed on how Narnia didn't have a faster time, it had a completely different time. The Professor shows how the fact that the world Lucy found in the wardrobe runs on a different time then Earth is the thing that makes the world so believable. If Narnia's time always ran faster than Earth, that would imply that Narnia had the same time as Earth, just sped up.

To my memory, I can't recall a time when Narnia's time is specifically mentioned as being slower than Earth's time... *thinks*
But I just remembered a time when it is implied.
In-between PC and VDT, 1 year goes by for Earth and 3 years go by for Narnia. In-between VDT and SC, less than 1 year goes by for Earth and 49 years go by for Narnia.
Narnia time has gone much slower compared to Earth time.

(Lewis might have pointed that out in SC, but I can't remember if he did )

Oh, wait, I didn't see this comment until just now...

In PC, one year went by on earth while one thousand years went by in Narnia. So Narnia's time actually just runs faster than ours.

Also, in the Magicians Nephew, they went into Narnia, came back, and it was exactly the same time it had been when they left. Same thing in The Lion, The Witch, and Wardrobe.


And.. My ML instincts just poked into me... Is this a derailment?

Hmm... Can't really comment there; it's been quite a while since I read those books and I'm not one hundred prevent positive if I understand you now.

Well, considering we haven't gotten corrected yet...and I'm an ML so I should be doing the correcting anyways, I'm gonna guess this is on topic since we are discussing about whether or not the video would be realistic if he went to Narnia. (Wait...that sounded weird. )

Of course it didn't sound weird to you...because you also know the difference between a fake fantasy world and a real one.