Into the Wardrobe

Hi Everyone,
I've heard that there are seven sevens in Narnia. I can pick out a few, like the Seven Friends of Narnia, Seven Isles, Seven Lords, and the Seven Books, but can you all help me figure out the others? And are these really the main sevens? If we find more than seven sevens, that's great too, because in my estimation, the more sevens, the better!
Thanks,
Sheroo of Stormness Head

These of course reference the seven churches in Asia, seven candlesticks and seven stars from the Revelation of John.

I'm reminded of the five words, five letters and the roman numeral for five in the title of, "RiVen; the Sequel to Myst" which original came on five discs. Yes, I'm a video game freak, that doesn't mean I don't like to read. :)

Isn't it neat that C.S. Lewis uses the number that is the perfect number in the Bible (along with 3)? I find that so fascinating. I definitely think that C.S. Lewis picked some of these things (Seven Friends of Narnia, etc) to be seven in number because it is a number of perfection in the Bible. Also, C.S. Lewis was a medievalist, and seven was a very important number in the medieval times, again, I think, because of the importance of it in the Bible. I was wondering though, what did you mean by that those sevens that I mentioned represent the sevens that you mentioned. Are you saying that Lewis was trying to picture the Seven Churches of Asia when he wrote about the Seven Friends of Narnia?

Lucy Barfield died seven years ago in 2003. And her godfather Jack Lewis died in 1963 - seven years after the last one of his seven Chronicles - The Last Battle - appeared in 1956.

Just a play with coincidences? Much more significant might be the fact that the names of both of them appeared together in the first book - The Lion and the Witch - in 1950. Which means that we are now about to begin our celebrations of "Narnia - Sixty Years!". (Wish it were Seven-ty )

Did the Seven Churches of Asia even exist back in Lewis' time? Yes, the number seven is used as a symbol of holiness and completeness but I think one can analyse something too much. But I can't talk. I pick apart the details of LOST.

Oops, yes, of course the Seven Churches of Asia were known of in Lewis' time. Thanks for your correction. I don't know how strongly they apply to Narnia but there's no harm done believing such things.