The Life Of Aslan (Narnia) 

Which Narnia character should we cover next?

I love how in Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Lucy, Edmond and Eustace find a Lamb. The lamb transformed into Aslan. At that point Aslan then told Edmond and Lucy that they could not return to Narnia, and that now they would know Aslan’s earthly name. Implying that Aslan indeed was the Son of God, Jesus

Fun Fact: “Aslan” means “Lion” in Turkish

This is epic

So when he said to Lucy, that he is known by another name on her world, did he mean that he’s Jesus ?

“It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan. "Are - are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund. "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”

Aslan was the animal version of Jesus.

C.S. Lewis was writing another book titled: “Susan: Queen of Narnia” at the time of his death. I’m sure Aslan wasn’t going to abandone her.

I’d like to believe that Susan will restore her faith in Narnia and will be allowed back in Aslan’s Country where she’ll be reunited with her siblings, and Aslan.

If anyone ever wanted to take up the mantle of Narnia, I don't think there's ever been a better time than now, to write the story of Susan grieving the loss of her family, slowly reasembling her memories of Narnia, fighting her way out of depression and finally being reunited with Aslan and her lost family.

C. S. Lewis held in mind a much deeper meaning than simply the Great Lion. Aslan represents Christ Himself, as this entire series is subliminally portraying Christianity and the life of Christ. “In your world, I am known by another name...you must learn to know me by it” (3rd movie). -Aslan. He teaches virtue, lovingly chastises vices, and commands respect and faith. Aslan, for these reasons and more, is my favorite character. I recently rewatched all 3 movies, and I cried when it was over. I want to actually read the original books by C. S. Lewis.

The end of the series was kinda sad and depressing

I have a feeling when Susan passes away, Aslan will come to her, ask her does she believe. In tears, Susan would say yes, reaching to touch Aslan's main, her hand de-ages before her eyes. Susan as a young woman, would stand up, leaning on Aslan. Aslan will let out a roar, that makes where Susan was dissapeare. They walk onto the beach before Aslan's County, 3 people are standing there waiting for them. It's Lucy, Peter and Edmund. They all run to each other's arms, laughing and crying. After a few minutes of small talk, Aslan gets them ready to go to his country. Then the four kings and queens, siblings, and friends, hand in hand walked into Aslan's County, a family once again

I always assumed that Susan not being there at the end was the author's way of paralleling the Bible, how at the end it is said during the great rapture that one person would go and one person would stay. I am glad to see that there are many theories as to how Susan is not lost! ❤️

I love Aslan so much he has always been my favorite animal character ever. But if I'm going to be honest these book series are really dark.

Everytime I look at him in the movie and hear that kind voice of his, I feel safe and I forget about all my problems. Aslan is a divine.👑👑

Fun Fact: At my launguage (Turkish) Aslan means lion

Wait hold up they all died exept for Susan, and she just forgot all about Narnia? the end? thats so sad and depressing

I wish that they’d made a screen adaptation of the Magicians Nephew. That’s my favorite story from the series.

Amazing detail and look into the life of Aslan in Narnia keep up the good work.

This is the video I didn’t know I needed

So is Aslan _literally_ Jesus and not just an allegory for him? He said he is "known by another name" in our world after all

Nice that you're doing Narnia lore...lets see more!

This is soo touching..... I acted this play in 3rd grade....

The mispronunciation of Pevensie all throughout this video is killing me lol

What a great video, thank you and Happy Valentine's day y'all 😂💕

A lot of holes were filled for me. The Narnia series is one of my favorite pieces of literature. Thanks 👍😊

I know it is just a movie, but when I see Aslan I always feel safe and emotional.

Never realized the parallels when watching this as a kid. It's pretty cool to think about.

The destruction of Narnia gives me "Here were dragons" vibes

Thank you for the summary about ASIAN. Because of this, I wished all 7 books would have been made into a live action film. I really enjoyed listening to the background of ASIAN. I've subscribed.

Thanks for the video essay on the history of Aslan.

I wonder what Netflix will do with Susan’s Character since C.S Lewis never finished telling her story. I’m just gonna assume she believes in Aslan again after the death of her entire family. She was my favorite character.

I can actually see the symbolism with Aslan and Jesus! He took place for the sacrifice for Ed and came back because there was more to the magic (and also 9 lives)! And was able to forgive everyone and win the war by defeating the evil frozen witch queen! I love lion sand he’s 😎

In some ways the fact that Peter, Edmund, Lucy, their parents Jill, Eustace, Digory and Polly all end up in Narnia at the very end of "The Chronicles of Narnia" ties everything up for them so well with a final flourish that it's finished with a bow. They all get to live in the real Narnia as a family in what is clearly meant to say that they all lived happily ever after. However, the stark reality is that while they get to live on in Heaven Susan is the only one who lives on earth who must now identify all their battered bodies and live with the absolute grief and agony of dealing with the six deaths of her family and their friends all at once so she is left to process all of her grief over them with no way of knowing if she will ever get a happy ever after with frills or a bow at all, on her own. The other tragedy though, and perhaps the one that bears equal weight if not more is that in the process of growing up Susan deluded herself into believing that all the very real events that she lived through in Narnia with her siblings were nothing but the figments of playing a childish game rather than a series of life affirming lessons on how to live as her best self while on an emotional journey through a magical land that really existed. She is permanently stuck where she is at the age she is by the end as a result of forgetting to and refusing to apply what she learnt from Aslan to the life she's living on earth. Moreover, she dismisses the very real trauma she experienced of having witnessed His crucifixion by the White Witch, the power of the unconditional sacrifice He made for her own brother and all of Narnia and the glory of His resurrection all in one as nothing but a story along with the fact that He was brought back by a Deeper Magic so as to make her a Queen of Narnia. Lucy is the one of all the Pevensies who always has faith In Aslan no matter what happens as it comes so naturally to her as a pure and innocent child with the strongest connection to him; she is the truest believer throughout the whole story. Susan has to learn to come back to the same faith the hard way and it's far harder for her than it ever is for Lucy as she must deal with her losses on her own on earth in the end, without her little sister who always wanted her to believe right alongside her. Susan views Narnia through the lens of a teenager going through puberty throughout the series however, and so she seems to think at certain times even when she's in Narnia itself, especially in the films rather than in the books that Narnia must be part of a nonsensical teenage phase in her life as she grows older and that the mature, logical thing to do is to grow out of that phase when actually she was sent to Narnia to learn to become more mature by allowing herself to grow into a strong, independent woman who is sensible, self-aware and wise. Susan's story mirrors the internal battle that C.S Lewis had with himself and his faith in the most realistic, gut wrenching way possible. In his anger over his mother's death before he came back to the Christian faith C.S Lewis seemed to see Christ's crucifixion and resurrection as a story when he knew, deep down, that it had really happened. Susan makes the same mistake due to having failed to apply what wisdom she learnt from witnessing Aslan's death firsthand to how to live her life on earth. As a result, she unwittingly leads herself to extreme suffering since she's living a lie by pretending that her experiences of life in Narnia never happened when deep down she knows they were real and that she could get back to believing it all if she only allowed herself to do so. She's not as grown up or as mature as she likes to think she is which is exactly what Aunt Polly highlights about her upon entering the real Narnia. Aunt Polly wants Susan to grow up by acknowledging the truth that she is not grown up as she is keeping up a pretense that will only cause her intense emotional pain if she carries on with it. The other problem for Susan by this point though is that she won't know what to feel except grief and maybe even guilt in not knowing how to believe as she must now deal with the painful loss of all of her family first. That in it's own way though should hit her that their deaths are just as real as Aslan's death and resurrection always was, and how both these events left a such real, raw impact on her when she witnessed it. She admired Him for going through with it when he explained it, she loved Him for it since Aslan ensured that Edmund would not have to suffer such a horrible fate and in her wisdom she knew that neither she or anyone else should ever tell Edmund that Aslan had given his life for him in such a bloody, brutal ritual to restore balance in His world. She grew into a sceptic upon returning to earth not out of malice but out of insecurity, self-doubt and immaturity and wanting a sense of permanency in that earthly life outside of Narnia after the Golden Age. She continued to be a sceptic upon returning to restore the native Narnians who had also become sceptics back to their own faith so much so that she couldn't see Aslan. Aslan forgave her for her scepticism though and told her not to listen to the fear of losing faith in him once she could see him again. She fell prey to that fear by the end though in entertaining the idea that she was the one who was growing up in growing out of some childish 'attachment' to Narnia which was never childish at all. I like to think that by the end of "The Chronicles of Narnia" and upon losing her family that in being the only Pevensie left to grieve over her dead family and as the last, living Queen of Narnia though is that Susan Pevensie knows, in her heart that she must now be as gentle as her title Queen Susan the Gentle suggests with herself and that she must let the pain of losing them help her to make peace with herself over having dismissed the true significance of Aslan's death and rebirth in the country she became Queen of because otherwise she will never forgive herself if she doesn't. The best thing she can do for herself now is to grow into what wisdom she could still attain from having to mourn her family and the death of her faith and forgiving herself for dismissing Aslan's lessons in all the time she spent in Narnia and it will be then, after processing it all and become wiser and is willing to believe once more that He will open the golden gates of the garden, forgive her for having turned her back on him as he once did when she was a young girl and let her into Heaven.

Well done. The Horse and his Boy is my favorite book.

I absolutely love this video!

3:07 Tumnus: You all look like you’ve engaged in battle, but I’ve never actually done battle. I just push some people and then run away.

for all the times ive watched dawn treader i never noticed that the handle of the bell on susan's desk at 7:53 looks like the lamppost!

i always wondered if aslan was Mufasa’s dad...

When I first seen & heard about Narnia I was a 6th grad boy I absolutely fell in lovd with " The Great Lion "

8:19 My pet theory is Susan had to be the mother of someone important on Earth :) and she was probably trying to save Lucy from being committed due to the wrong person overhearing her.

Very well done. Amazing.

The song is something I can meditate to. If I only knew the name.

"In your world, I am known by another name, and you must learn to know me by it."

When you think about it, the personification of Aslan as a lion and considering who he’s obviously based on, it also makes some sense. Also angels are sometimes described as having lion faces. A BIT ironic though is that the demon Rath also appeared to Solomon as a lion.

So good!

Great job 👍

Bro. I still want The Horse and His Boy to be made. Like, I can live without The Last Battle, but I just want one more movie of this wonderful world. And Tashban brought to life? *Chef's Kiss*

A work of art and heart🖼❤️

The Pevensie Siblings never heard of Aslan before, 🦁he's one strange character and he's even the god.

The question of what happens to Susan always gets me when you listen to the books. I would have loved to see what her future had in store for her. I never thought she would be banished to tash for the path she took but still what what was the continuance of her story

Please more Narnia THE LIFE OF REEPICHEEP ;-)

Awesome!!!

While watching this video, it reminds me of the entire New Testament Bible. Just sharing. Hahaha! Nice video, by the way! I've learned so much about Narnia and my favorite character, Aslan, which I believe is the representation of our Lord Jesus. :)

I think Aslan is so cute. I think at the end of Susan's life she is get into Aslan's country. Susan's just not in Adam's country yet because she still has time left on this Earth. Good video.

Ah Narnia, the sister world to J.R.R Tolkien's middle earth. Tolkien and Lewis were friends so Im seeing some similarities and connections in their work. Great video!

Amazing 😉

Aslan be vibing 😎

When I was a little girl and I watched The lion the witch and the wardrobe (bbc version) I sobbed and sobbed when they sheared off his mane. It Broke my heart.

Let’s go boi early

Pls, more Narnia videos.

"Representation of everything that is good?" Aslan is a Christofany, a representation of Jesus Christ.

Awesome 😎

i didnt know there was more parts can somebody tell me wat are they and were can i find or read them

I need to read all the books

Epic!!

My mom Loved it

Is aslans country heaven

Diggory Kurk was the professor

I love it

*For Narnia !*

3:39 that one little girl: *we will see about that*

I just wish they finished this series. The first 2 movies were brilliant and quite spectacular. And god the score was breathtaking. But it diminished. I like Dawn Treader and its damn shame we'll never see its conclusion

He is voiced by Irish actor, Liam Neeson.

Lewis got a lot of inspiration from the bible when he wrote The Chronicles of Narnia.

We did the lion the witch and the wardrobe at school and I found the “I was there when it was written meme”

Very interesting 🧐

More Narnia video, pls.

Aslan is so beautiful.

How did I miss that the creation of narnia mirrors the genesis story !! And part Noah’s ark as well .

"... Do not quote the deep Magick to Me Witch!.. I was there When It Was Written! "

The Jesus Allegory is STRONG with this one

The white witch is probably an allegory to the ice Giants in Germanic cosmology. Tolkien was the one who used a lot of Nordic and Celtic mythology in his books, but since Lewis was his friend he probably also had this idea and wanted to portray mythology

What is the name of the background song?? It's Beautiful

I think someone should make a video on Aslan’s Country and Aslan’s farther the Emperor Beyond the Sea 🤔. Because I have always been interested in those two things because nobody has explained anything on those two things.

aslan is a singer in malaysia now...from lion to singer..Azlan and The Typewriter

I remember seeing this movie in theaters

This theory was from the book, it is an amazing book

He died for his people, came back to life after a certain amount of time, and performs several miracles in his life. This lion is basically Jesus in his world

Lewis was going to make Susan his own portrait, especially at a time in life when he abandoned faith for human reason and became an atheist He was going to portray in her this moment of his life and obviously she would come back to believe in Aslan and Narnia and would meet her siblings Unfortunately for us there was no conclusion, where Susan never came back to believe in Aslan and probably didn't meet them again

I’d like a story where Susan eventually goes to Aslan’s country. Maybe she becomes a missionary or the like an stumbles upon some Narnians fleeing judgement following Narnia’s destruction. He

ERU ILUVATAR: I sang with my Ainur to create my world ASLAN: I just roared to make Narnia...the humans were too slow to create the karaoke

My favoriet movie!solo good!!

Please more Narnia video

Remind me again why they only made three movies?? This is probably one of, if not the best, fictional literary series ever written!

Where did you get the destruction part?? It wasn’t in the movie

What's the music where you use it in Narnia video? I LOVE IT. Can you send this here as a link, if that's not possible then forget it. But Thanks.

Will u cover The Lion King or The Lion Guard characters

CS Lewis was such a genius