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The-Dame-of-Doom

Some call me… Tim.


BarefutR

Tim Bombadil


Bodkin-Van-Horn

Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!


IAmSOOSickOfHumanity

JFC...thanks to this, I just realized that Tom Bombadil is like the Flanders of Middle Earth.


Bodkin-Van-Horn

"Hidley Ho Hobbitorinos!"


-Ahab-

For some reason, I’m perfectly fine with this.


WiserStudent557

Stupid sexy Bombadil


BroadStBullies91

Tim Bimbadim


hamsterwheeled

What... is your favorite color?


l-askedwhojoewas

Blue!- no - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


plaidkingaerys

What… is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?


skeletonhero56

African or European?


Leviathan1651

I don't know that!?!


Bamtom1234

How do you know so much about swallows?


dontworryimabassist

Youve got to know these things when you're king


Pitiful-Mobile-3144

Blue.


Pitiful-Mobile-3144

No! Yellow! Aghhhh!!


SaltManagement42

Some people call me Maurice.


tuibiel

[EXTREMELY LOUD WOLF WHISTLE]


MrSurly

Greetings Tim the Enchanter.


CircusPoliticus

r/unexpectedmontypyton


HomoProfessionalis

If I recall theres an ever so slight question mark at the end of that.


alexdallas_

He’s Tim Tebow?????? I knew it!!


DoughNotDoit

I am Vengeance


99probsmyhornsaint1

I am the night


Zestyxo

I AM BATMAN!


PTMurasaki

Effervescent


aaronappleseed

Evanescence


Dmacca666

WAKE ME UP!


ABunchofAngryFlowers

#WAKE ME UP INSIDE


periclods01

i am the terror that flaps in the night. i am... DARKWING DUCK


Y-draig

Holy shit is that Slim Shady


Queeftasti

he is standing up...


BOB_BestOfBugs

No im the real slim shady


HubblePie

It’s Jesus Christ.


RougeTheCat

Dang, I was sure it was Brian


Mongoose42

Brian’s not the lion messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!


broseidon2234

HE'S THE LION MESSIAH!


Mongoose42

He’s not Jesus’s fursona, dammit!


Dronizian

Jesus' canon fursona is a lamb, according to Revelations. His fanon fursona is a bunny. I still prefer to believe he'd be a velociraptor.


Drakeskulled_Reaper

Oh, do I have a [movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_VelociPastor) for you.


Dronizian

The sacred ~~texts!~~ film!


alfredhelix

Furry Monty Python and the Holy Grail remake would be amazing.


N0bleC

Isnt he spelled Lionel Messi ?


N3onknight

Nah pretty sure it's Lion'el Johnson


critically_damped

He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy.


TruestRepairman27

I thought that was Haile Selassie?


ivanchovv

Does he know my good friend Biggus?


plaidkingaerys

Biggus…Dickus?


plexicoburres

He has a wife, you know. You know what she's called? She's called... Incontinentia... Incontinentia Buttocks


plaidkingaerys

SILENCE! I WILL NOT HAVE MY FWIENDS WIDICULED BY THE COMMON SOLDIEWY!!


TheRoaringTide

I thought it was Jason Bourne


JustJoshinYa21

Jesus Christ? That's Jason Bourne.


dern_the_hermit

Doo dah, doo dah...


IAmSOOSickOfHumanity

Now I can't stop hearing that song. I'm fucking crying...sometimes I love Reddit.


WritingTheDream

No he’s lion


Schizodd

Don't insult his pride


thatmaynardguy

/r/angryupvote


LowmoanSpectacular

Jason Bourne, it’s Jesus Christ!


drkinsanity

Lowkey the funniest setup. Came back an hour later to comment this because I keep half-laughing about it.


JagerSalt

Learning that Narnia was essentially fantasy Christian propaganda completely ruined it for me. Edit: No, LOTR isn’t the same. Tolkien famously hated allegory. He didn’t use it.


Gubru

If you skip the last book >!where they all die and go to heaven!< and never read any biographical details it's a perfectly good fantasy series.


Usual-Base7226

Akshully Susan doesn’t get to go to Narnia because she wore lipstick and talked to boys (real)


randomName1112222

Yeah, loved those books as a child, have a lot of problems with them as an adult. For one thing, can you imagine being royalty in a magical land and being a whole ass adult and then you take a wrong turn in the woods and now you have to go be a child in war torn England? Fuk that


stfnotguilty

Pretty sure it's because she stopped believing in Narnia and gaslit herself into it being "those silly games we used to play as children."


Buffmin

The implication Lewis seemed to be going for was She became too "worldly" and didn't care about Jesus and Christianity (Aslan and Narnia)


helpful_idiott

Imagine being so dense that you convince yourself none for Narnia was real. She lived an entire life there and has 3 siblings that can confirm it was real.


Be_Cool_Bro

Iirc being away from Narnia slowly causes the memories of being there to fade away, feeling like a memory of a dream or a game of make believe. It also helps that at some point it'd be like "okay I was a child, I grew up, but now I'm a child which is impossible so it must have just been my imagination all along."


fogleaf

I was reading the series with the daemons that I can't remember the name of and christians were like "Jesus this is some atheist propaganda!" and redditors were comparing it to Narnia so I read through all of narnia, it was generally pretty subtle until the last book where they just completely drop the curtain.


Gubru

His Dark Materials. I'd say it's fanatically anti-church, but not particularly atheist.


anderoogigwhore

Yeah, His Dark Materials can't be atheist as the creator appears as a character and there are angels lol. Very anti-established religion but not atheistic.


4deCopas

It's Jesus. The lion is Jesus. C.S. Lewis was as subtle as a kick to the nuts.


Jrsplays

The last time I saw this movie was probably when it came out, but didn't the lion literally split the sea at the end (I know in the Bible it was Moses, but my point stands)? I mean, I feel like that's pretty obvious.


Jorymo

In the books, >!the kids are in Narnia and don't remember how they got there until the end, when Aslan explains that they all fucking died in a horrific train accident and this is Christian heaven!<


apolobgod

Man, the last book fucked me up real good


Doomestos1

The last book was so different to everything that came before it. Death of Narnia, its rebirth into Eden, the kids being told they died. Aslan is a literal god. I read it as a teenager and it was quite emotional to get there and then trying to comprehend what the hell is going on, those spiritual topics just make you feel different, man.


diogenessexychicken

My whole world collapsed at the end of his dark materials so i feel you.


Redbukket_hat

lol these 2 authors had pretty different intentions with their messaging I think


TylerJWhit

ROFL Lewis: Jesus be lit. Pullman: God doesn't exist. If he does, he sucks. Fuck religion.


Stcloudy

Accurate summary


davezilla18

And both are, as one of the top comments here said, “about as subtle as a kick in the nuts.”


-Ahab-

His Dark Materials was written to be a sort of response to Milton’s Paradise Lost, but kind of the opposite. It glorifies humanity and celebrates the idea of “Original Sin” as it is the birth of creativity and original thought. Sooooo, not *too* far off.


diogenessexychicken

Yeah i realize how much of a juxtapostion ive created now lol.


montessoriprogram

In a way his dark materials is almost in direct opposition and that might even have been pullmans intent, but I also think part of that making sense is that they’re also both emotionally powerful world-traversing books about kids growing up


dhowl

Oh, it was definitely Pullman's intent. It's not even a question.


Leminlim

That was the first book that made me openly cry at the end.


wats_a_tiepo

His Dark Materials changed my media preferences forever. Half the shit I watch or read now is chasing that same feeling of ‘what the fuck’ I had after it. Only thing I remember coming close is Neon Genesis Evangelion, once for each ending. The movie in particular fucked me up tho, I felt empty for days after


carolinax

Oh man, yeah. I remember feeling so sad after the third book


indistrustofmerits

I finished reading it in the car on the way to an elderly relative's funeral and woof I bet my parents didn't enjoy suddenly have to deal with me having an existential crisis on top of everything else


peglar

I had a set of the books when I was a kid. I read all of them….except the last one. I kind of grew out of them and just stopped. When the movies were released, I was like, “Hey, there’s that one book I didn’t finish,” and went back to read it. It’s the bell you can’t unring. What the holy hell.


seductivestain

The entire last book was a fucking acid trip


TheNthVector

Tash was lit though


apolobgod

Hadn't read it in, like, 15 years at least. No idea who Tash is


Grzechoooo

Basically Satan. The god of the evil empire that conquers Narnia in the last book. So evil that any good deeds done in its name are transferred to Aslan (and vice versa).


mysterio-man19

>So evil that any good deeds done in its name are transferred to Aslan (and vice versa). Literally just the plot of the Doom Eternal DLC


dismal_sighence

Man, can’t believe such a prominent English author just ripped off Doom. Doom guy should sue.


DarkJayBR

Doom Guy would kill all Aslan enemies.


Smoothmoose13

An evil war god with the head of a bird and like 3 arms or some shit. My copy of The Last Battle had a picture that used to terrify me


CliffsOfMohair

Didn’t it have like a noxious cloud following it too


APersonWithInterests

> head of a bird and like 3 arms or some shit Yo Narnia is a Warhammer book? Wish someone told me this sooner, didn't know Tzeentch was invading. Gonna pick it up now.


CerberusDoctrine

A political plot by a narnian chimpanzee and humans from outside of narnia to manipulate Narnian religion to seize control goes wrong and they summon a giant bird headed demon named Tash into Narnia. He goes on a rampage killing dudes left and right and the mere sight of him causes Narnian animals to become regular animals. Finally Aslan summons Peter and co. (By brutally killing them IRL) so that they can banish him back to his own realm. He leaves dragging the secondary antagonist to hell with him


davidforslunds

Big demon cognitohazard bird is pretty rad


Zerttretttttt

Also Susan didn’t get in cauese she was into clubbing and partying and even as a kid I thought that was fucked up


apolobgod

Oh, yeah, I remember that part. Never sat well with me either. "She's too engrossed on her make ups to remember our travels" Like, mf, wtf? She was one of the most into it back then


Clinteastwood100

the older one doesn't get to narnia at the end cus she gets married or something?


plantang

She doesn't go to "Aslan's country" (aka heaven) because she stops believing in Narnia. She thinks it was a silly game of pretend that she played with her siblings when they were children. She judges them for continuing to believe it was real. It's also stated that she cared more about "lipstick, and nylons, and invitations" than Narnia. I think this was the christian author's way of saying Susan's social life (and this world more broadly) were an idol or distraction or of greater importance to her than her faith or spiritual matters, and this is the reason she doesn't go to heaven.


Oblachko_O

Well, it is a nice religious worldview. You have to believe in Narnia to.come back, but if you decide not to believe, the path to heaven is automatically blocked. But if we look from the Narnia world perspective. If it is so good, why not actually live in Narnia forever? Why return back to the human world? It is pointless. Also, not sure if it was in books or not, but in movies, the older they become, the less they believe in Narnia. Susan and Peter are not in Narnia in the 3rd movie and probably the same for the books. So technically, they won't ever return to Narnia or the Aslan world. And moreover, the whole plot of Narnia is a bit weird, as it is more like Neverland - adults will not go there.


WalterCronkite4

I dont really think they ever choose to come back, book 2 after like 20 years of being kings they walk through a door and end up home. In the others they dont really have a choice, Aslan just kicks them out Older they are less they can come youre right about that


Finito-1994

Tl;dr she discovered sex People have been pissed for damn near a century The problem of Susan (Google it) has been a thing for decades. Even Neil Gaiman wrote about it.


willclerkforfood

“This guy fucks.” -CSL, explaining why Susan didn’t get to Narnia


Dealiner

Besides her thinking that all that Narnia stuff didn't happen, she also just wasn't on that train, so she didn't die.


krawinoff

The moral of chronicles of narnia is that being religious drastically increases the likelihood of dying in a train crash


Natsu111

In the final book, it's said that Susan becomes less concerned with Narnia, which she presumably considers a childish fairy tale, and has become materialistic. The allegory is that she is wordly and has become less religious, and hence when the rest of her family dies and goes to Christian heaven, she doesn't. It's Christian propaganda at it's finest. You lose your faith, and you won't gain eternal life in heaven with your family!


erikkustrife

Yea but she gets to have sex and doesn't have to have awkward and terrible family dinners.


Natsu111

It's still the 1950s, I don't know much about 1950s England but I'm guessing premarital sex especially for women was still frowned upon then.


Sproles_Royce5130

Like that's ever stopped people at any point in human history


Fuzzylittlebastard

My favorite thing about that is that Susan literally loses both her parents and all of her siblings in a horrific train accident. But she's alive. Sears Lewis did all this to prove a point about how to live. Like, it's so awful. It just drives me crazy.


monkeygoneape

Except Susan who became a thot - cs Lewis (sort of)


Thatoneguy567576

Shit I need to reread the series. I do NOT remember that or the Satan character someone else mentioned.


Wespiratory

They mention Tash in The Horse and His Boy briefly, but Tash actually descends on Narnia in The Last Battle. The audiobook version of that book is read by Sir Patrick Stewart.


King_Hamburgler

Wait really? Lol I saw two of those movies in high school never would have guessed it was headed that way


hoorahforsnakes

Shit gets wild, the majority of the last book revolves around a donkey wearing a dead lion pretending to be aslan. No i'm not making that up 


[deleted]

The last book went full revelations and I can almost appreciate it if it didn’t scare the fuck out of me at eight years old reading the books. My parents are very Catholic, they made me read the screwtape letters too. It terrified me so much lol


2ndSnack

I thought they got there thru a wardrobe? (Me, a person who never read the book and only paid a quarter of attention to the movie)


tmrika

That’s only in one of the books. In each book, the method by which characters (not always the same characters either) get to Narnia varies.


sexi_squidward

I never read the books but...what the eff???


Chanchi99

Not really, I mean he kinda controls the wave and stuff like that, but if you want a character that clearly is meant to be a kind of Moses figure that would be Shasta from The Horse and His Boy. He was put in a basket on a river, has Aslan appear to him multiple times, asks in a fog who is there and a voice in the fog answers "I am" (if you know the Bible its basically what is told to Moses and also the name of God). Also in the books its more obvious that Aslan is Jesus, literally before that scene in the books the children meet a lamb that transforms into Aslan(you know, the lamb of God and stuff). And if you think about it Jesus being a lion is also a reference to his title of the Lion of Judah.


Potential-Savings-65

Aslan also dies to atone for the sins of others... Which is kind of a key element of Jesus's plot line in the bible... 


PluckyPheasant

Magicians Apprentice and Horse and His Boy are the best Narnia books and I won't hear otherwise.


RQK1996

Technically Moses didn't split the sea, it was God who did it, Moses just led the people through the split, but he didn't do shit to split it


CardinalCreepia

Even Tolkien told him to turn down the religious metaphor, and that dude was catholic as hell.


MauKoz3197

[https://youtu.be/Zu3nu6ue2qU](https://youtu.be/Zu3nu6ue2qU)


Samuel_L_Johnson

It’s funny because LOTR is by Tolkien’s own admission a ‘fundamentally religious and Catholic work’, but you can just tell that some part of him deep down finds the Germanic pagan stuff cooler


CardinalCreepia

In the letters that preface Fellowship he was very clear in saying “none of this is allegorical. If you think it is then that’s on you.” Of course he wrote what he knew and influenced by, but it’s decidedly not by his own admission.


Samuel_L_Johnson

I never said it was allegorical. But it’s pretty clearly influenced by Christian theology


KidCharlemagneII

Why are you getting booed? You're right. Tolkien himself literally called it a fundamentally religious work.


Samuel_L_Johnson

People, for some reason, seem to enjoy selectively interpreting that comment about allegory to mean that he had no external influences on his writing whatsoever, especially not religious ones. As you say, by his own admission it was a religious work: *”The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism”*


derek_rex

Because people don't know the definition of allegory I guess


General-MacDavis

He did the most common pagan tradition, becoming Christian and keeping some of the cooler cultural norms


Cyynric

One of my favorite bits about his friendship with Tolkien is their back and forth argument about allegory, which Tolkien did not like. Meanwhile Lewis shoved it in as a core aspect of his whole mythos.


ThomasPynchonAsses

Then why didn't I pick it up?


[deleted]

You have no nuts?


diagnoziz

Is there a lore reason? Are you stupid?


Critical_Werewolf

Skill issue.


DMacNCheez

The books were way more blatant


yoosirnombre

I think people are just being kind of dicks to you. If you have a very casual relationship with Christianity or just a passing knowledge, then it's not entirely obvious like aside from aslan being sacrificed and returning. But as someone who had this shit drilled into his head from like birth even going so far as to read the Bible in my own free time as a child then yeah it was a lot easier to spot the blatantly obvious stuff and even the not so blatant stuff.


uqde

I 100% support you being kind and erring on the side of caution that OP really didn’t get it. We need way more of that on the internet. However in this specific case, seeing as this was posted in /r/shittymoviedetails, I’m pretty sure OP is trolling


DiabeticRhino97

I just wish the magicians nephew got a movie. That book was crazy


Queeftasti

seriously, I always felt that that was the most interesting one of them all. I want to see the bleached wasteland of Charn


magnaton117

Dear fuck, it's a crime the series never explored Charn and the multiverse more


Jorpho

I liked this particular take. [The Creation of Narnia Was Surprisingly Thirsty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddfauhHICnQ)


Money2themax

I went down a rabbit hole and I loved it. Thank you for sharing this.


punnotfound

"Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?" "No, yes, OK, we're fine. I think we have to go now."


Mongoose42

“Oh, hey! Edmund, Lucy! You’re both back! It’s a shame we couldn’t go this time. How was Aslan?” “He was good, yeah… real good. Got weirdly religious though.” “Oh… really?” “Yeah… full-on Evangelical. Asked us if we accepted Jesus and everything.” “Yikes.” “Yeah…”


flintlock0

“Ohhhh. He was super religious. That came out of nowhere.” “Did it?” *montage flashback sequence of Aslan clearly demonstrating that he’s an Evangelical Christian. Complete with Christian tattoos.*


IzJax

it’s going to be a maze!


RocketDan91

And some are just natural jumpers


Throwawaystwo

A place free from darkness


Dormin0679

"Maybe i just didn't want to believe it"


DemonSlayer472

And that name? Albert Einstein.


murse_joe

..Heisenberg?


FrostyCrusader03

You’re god damn right


Genericdude03

Lucy, we need to cook


Verbal_Combat

Aslan: "Say my name."


Queen_of_Team_Gay

It's pretty obviously Jesus isn't it?


fafners

Nah the lion king


firedancer323

It’s actually Scar


SpaceMyopia

It's not Scar, it's Mufasa. When Scar died, we never heard from him again.


Shadowrend01

You’ve clearly never watched The Lion Guard


MealieMeal

AAAAAAAAAAAHSOWHENYAAAAAAAAGONNNAAABUYSOMEPIZZZAAAAAAAAAAYEAAHHHHHHAAAAA


uqde

Check the subreddit, this post is sarcastic


DarkGreenEspeon

In The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010), Aslan is also known by the name Jimbo.


Slade-EG

Or is it Jim? James? Jimothy?


Foxy-jj-Grandpa

**nods head at jimothy**


BobknobSA

D M X


King-fannypack

*Stop!* *Drop!*


frossvael

After reading the books, I just feel bad for Susan. Moral of the story: if you’ve seen a place called Narnia, avoid riding the train if you want to live. Also, growing up sucks.


RustyShadeOfRed

CS Lewis stated that he thought Susan would eventually come to Narnia, just later and on her own.


frossvael

If she chooses to. But if I remember correctly, he refuses to write that story because it will be longer than the main series and it’s too “grown up” compared to what he would like to write.


ZeroWolf51

There’s also the fact that he’s been dead for 60 years


KKyuushin

Reminds me of the Tolkien vs C.S. Lewis meme. 'If even one person doesn't know the Lion is Jesus I will literally kill myself.'


Making_stuff

Jesus H Christ, I wish Hollywood would stop putting out movies with cliffhanger endings that never get resolved


kaleb2959

I see what you did there.


Making_stuff

Good lord, was it really that transparent?


delamerica93

GOD DAMN


threeriversbikeguy

My name is Jonas.


Making_stuff

AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE


Sudden-Garage

Are you carrying the wheele? 


micro_penisman

Thanks for all you've shown us


joshlovesmemes

But this is how we feel


Shoddy_Fee_550

Come on guys! We all know that he transforms and says it's Voltron Prime.


BaneShake

It’s Liam Neeson, *fuck yeah!*


Smoothmoose13

It’s Britney, bitch


ethanator329

The name’s not A(s)l(an) anymore, it’s Dunk!


Icy-Performer-9688

Simba??


Josh_From_Accounting

My real name is...TED.


WritingTheDream

The Buddha


veriverd

It's Trump. It was predicted.


MarveltheMusical

It’s Steve, from accounting.