First Encounter with C.S. Lewis?

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[Áthas]

[wood-maid]

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[Ben]

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[Carolyn]

Out of the Silent Planet was also my first C S Lewis book, Adam. I found it in the college library when I was 17 (had never heard of C S Lewis before that). Went on to read the other Space Trilogy books at college but didn't encounter the C of N till a few years later as a boxed set in a big book shop, and recognised the C S Lewis name. Have read them frequently since then. I've now read quite a few other C S Lewis titles but have quite a few still to go!

My children first encountered LWW as a black and white cartoon on TV many years ago - but our eldest daughter (aged 7 and very soft-hearted) ended up bursting into tears and running out of the room when Aslan was sacrificed on the stone table and no amount of coaxing could get her to watch any more. I very quickly started reading them to the children at night. They are all now avid C S Lewis readers and my daughter has the four BBC films for her young children to watch. And so it goes on . . .

[gadfly1974]

I was also lucky enough to have had my Mom read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe aloud to me when I was young, about 6 years old.

The way she tells it, because I don't remember these things very well, she read aloud through Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and by that time I could read the rest on my own.

It probably took me five or six years to finish the rest of the series on my own, because I got sidetracked by the Hardy Boys.

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[A#minor]

Welcome to the Wardrobe, Fea~mar~vanwa~tyalieva~*!
Good to have you here. Especially if you're a Tolkien fan as well!
May I ask what your screen name means?

[Sven]

Welcome, Fae!

To add to the connection between Lewis and Tolkien, according to Tolkien's son, the pre-conversion Lewis was 'Misomythus' in Tolkien's poem Mythopoeia.

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[A#minor]

Duh, I should have known that your name is elvish. I'll have to brush up on my Quenyan.
Why would Feanor be your favorite? He was the crazy one with the vows and the Silmarils and the curse and the kin-slaying... We're reading the Silmarillion together over in the Tolkien forum right now.
Why is Cottage of Lost Play your favorite? I've read it, and I thought it rather confusing.
Yeah, my name is a key in music.

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