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[ 0 => '{{short description|Fictional lion, a deity in The Chronicles of Narnia}}', 1 => '{{about|the C. S. Lewis character}}', 2 => '{{pp-move}}', 3 => '{{Infobox character', 4 => '| name = Aslan', 5 => '| series = [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Narnia]]', 6 => '| image = Aslan2005.jpg', 7 => '| caption = Aslan in the 2005 film ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'',<br>voiced by [[Liam Neeson]].', 8 => '| last = ''[[The Last Battle]]'' (1956)', 9 => '| creator = [[C. S. Lewis]]', 10 => '| first = ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' (1950)', 11 => '| based_on = <!-- if not an original creation, use {{based on|character|author}} -->', 12 => '| adapted_by = <!-- for character adaption articles -->', 13 => '| voice = [[Liam Neeson]]<br>others, ''see [[#Adaptations|Adaptations]]''', 14 => '| nickname = <!-- or |nicknames= -->', 15 => '| alias = <!-- or |aliases= -->', 16 => '| race = [[Talking animals in fiction|Talking]] [[Lion]] / [[Deity]]', 17 => '| occupation = <!-- or |position= -->', 18 => '| family = [[Emperor-Over-the-Sea]] (father)', 19 => '| origin = <!-- or |home= -->', 20 => '| nationality = [[Aslan's Country]]', 21 => '}}', 22 => '[[File:Belfast - CS Lewis Square - Aslan the lion 20230227.jpg|thumb|Aslan the lion (by [[Maurice Harron]] (2016), CS Lewis Square, [[Belfast]]).]]', 23 => ''''Aslan''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|s|l|æ|n|,_|ˈ|æ|z|-}}) is a major character <!-- NOTE: Aslan is not "the main" character of the series as he is not one of the protagonists; he experiences conflict only in one of the books (LWW), encounters no difficulties, learns nothing since he knows everything already, and undergoes no character development. --> in [[C. S. Lewis]]'s ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' series. Unlike any other character in the Narnian series, Aslan appears in all seven chronicles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-you-should-know-about-the-chronicles-of-narnia/|title=9 Things You Should Know About The Chronicles of Narnia|first=Joe|last=Carter|date=16 June 2017 |access-date=2018-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018204510/https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-you-should-know-about-the-chronicles-of-narnia/|archive-date=2018-10-18|url-status=live}}</ref> Aslan is depicted as a [[Talking animals in fiction|talking]] [[lion]] and is described as the King of Beasts, the son of the [[List of The Chronicles of Narnia characters#E|Emperor-Over-the-Sea]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2011/mar/09/royal-mail-stamps-magical-realms|title=Gallery: Royal Mail: Stamps from magical realms|newspaper=The Guardian|date=March 9, 2011|via=www.theguardian.com|access-date=2018-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011172947/https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2011/mar/09/royal-mail-stamps-magical-realms|archive-date=2018-10-11|url-status=live}}</ref> and the King above all High Kings in Narnia.<ref name="Vaus2004">{{cite book|author=Will Vaus|title=Mere Theology: A Guide to the Thought of C. S. Lewis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBah9m4U9R8C&pg=PA146|date=30 March 2004|publisher=InterVarsity Press|isbn=978-0-8308-2782-4|pages=146–}}</ref> ', 24 => '', 25 => 'C.S. Lewis often capitalizes the word ''lion'' in reference to Aslan since he parallels [[Jesus]] as the "[[Lion of Judah]]" in [[Christian theology]].<ref name="Letters">The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, vol iii, p 160: "I found the name [Aslan]...it is the Turkish for Lion. ... And of course it meant the [[Lion of Judah]]."</ref> The word [[Aslan (disambiguation)|''aslan'']] means "lion" in [[Turkish language|Turkish]].<ref name="Letters"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GhjBX5KtnUC&pg=PA428 |title=Langenscheidt Pocket Turkish Dictionary |page=428 |publisher=Langenscheidt publishing group |access-date=25 October 2020 |year=2006 |isbn=9781585735228 }}</ref>', 26 => '', 27 => '==Role in ''The Chronicles of Narnia''==', 28 => '===''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]''===', 29 => 'Aslan is first mentioned by [[Mr. Beaver]] when the Pevensie children arrive in [[Narnia (world)|Narnia]]. He is described by Mr. Beaver as being the true king of Narnia who has returned to help the Pevensies to free Narnia of the [[White Witch]]'s rule.', 30 => '', 31 => 'Mr and Mrs. Beaver guide [[Peter Pevensie|Peter]], [[Susan Pevensie|Susan]] and [[Lucy Pevensie|Lucy]] to the [[Stone Table|stone table]] to meet Aslan. They inform Aslan that [[Edmund Pevensie|Edmund]] has betrayed them by joining the White Witch. Aslan sends some of his followers to rescue Edmund. The next day, Aslan is approached by the White Witch who demands her right to kill Edmund, as the deep magic states that all traitors belong to her. Aslan discusses the matter in private with the Witch, persuading her to release Edmund.', 32 => '', 33 => 'That same night, Aslan travels to the stone table with Susan and Lucy. The Witch and her followers bind Aslan to the stone table—it is revealed that Aslan had agreed to be killed to save Edmund. However, due to a deeper magic (which the Witch was unaware of), Aslan is brought back to life and manages to rescue his followers who have been turned to stone by the Witch. He brings his followers to the battle where he kills the Witch himself, ending her tyranny once and for all.', 34 => '', 35 => 'Aslan is present at the [[coronation]] of the four Pevensie children. He then leaves to attend to other duties with Mr. Beaver convincing the Pevensie children that he will be coming and going.', 36 => '', 37 => '===''[[Prince Caspian]]''===', 38 => 'The Pevensies are summoned into Narnia from their world to help [[Caspian X|Caspian]]—the rightful King of Narnia—overthrow his usurping [[Miraz|Uncle Miraz]] and restore freedom to the land. When they get lost in the forest, Aslan calls Lucy to lead her siblings to him; some obey more faithfully than others. Aslan helps Peter, Edmund, and [[Trumpkin|Trumpkin the Dwarf]] to come to Caspian's aid in time to thwart an attempt on his life. Aslan then leads an army of awakened Trees and [[Maenads]] to victory against Miraz's [[Telmar]]ine occupation. He later crowns Caspian as King and creates a door whereby surviving Telmarines can leave the Narnian world if they so choose.', 39 => '', 40 => '===''[[The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]''===', 41 => 'Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are transported to the eastern ocean of the Narnian world along with their cousin, the recalcitrant [[Eustace Scrubb|Eustace]], where they join King Caspian on a seafaring journey. When Eustace falls under an enchantment and becomes a [[dragon]], Aslan delivers him from the enchantment. Aslan appears at various points of the journey to provide guidance. When they reach the world's end, Aslan appears as a [[Lamb of God|lamb]] before returning to his usual form. He shows [[Reepicheep]] (a talking mouse) the way to [[Aslan's Country]].', 42 => '', 43 => '===''[[The Silver Chair]]''===', 44 => 'Aslan brings Eustace and his classmate [[Jill Pole|Jill]] to Narnia. He explains to Jill that she and Eustace are charged with the quest of finding King Caspian's son, [[Prince Rilian]] (who had disappeared years before), and gives her four Signs to guide them on their quest. Aslan makes no further appearances until the end of the story, but his Signs prove central to the successful quest. When he returns Eustace and Jill to their world, Aslan shows himself to the bullies at their school to frighten them.', 45 => '', 46 => '===''[[The Horse and his Boy]]''===', 47 => 'Aslan's influence is at first hidden from the characters. Prior to the story's opening, he delivered the infant Prince Cor of [[Archenland]] from his enemies to a [[Calormene]] fisherman who named him [[Shasta (Narnia)|Shasta]]. At one point in the book, Aslan—pretending to be a common "witless" lion—chases Shasta and the talking horse [[Bree (Narnia)|Bree]] so that they will meet [[Aravis]] and [[Hwin]], who become their traveling companions. He comforts Shasta in the form of a [[cat]] and defends him as he sleeps; later, he chases Shasta and the others so that they will reach Archenland in time to warn that nation of the impending attack of Prince [[Rabadash]] of Calormen. After Rabadash is defeated, Aslan turns him into a donkey as punishment.', 48 => '', 49 => '===''[[The Magician's Nephew]]''===', 50 => 'This book tells the story of Aslan's creation of Narnia, his crowning of its first King and Queen, and his gift of the power of speech to some of the animals. Aslan tells the two main characters—[[Digory Kirke]] and [[Polly Plummer]]—that the evil Jadis (later to become the White Witch) will pose a great threat to the Narnians. Aslan charges Digory and Polly with a quest to acquire a magic [[apple]] that, when planted, will protect Narnia from Jadis.', 51 => '', 52 => '===''[[The Last Battle]]''===', 53 => 'Though [[Shift (Narnia)|Shift the Ape]] and the other villains act in his name (dressing the naïve donkey [[Puzzle the donkey|Puzzle]] in a lion-skin), Aslan himself only appears late in the story in a paradise entered through a stable door. He brings Narnia to an end, and leads into his own country such of its inhabitants who, coming to the Stable Door as the world ends, look into his face and love him, some to their own surprise. At the end of the book, he informs the other characters that "all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadowlands—dead", and that the afterlife in which they now find themselves is the true reality as they go "further up and further in".', 54 => '', 55 => '==Influences==', 56 => '===Christian interpretation===', 57 => '{{further|Religion in The Chronicles of Narnia}}', 58 => 'Although Aslan can be read as an original character, parallels exist with [[Christ]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/0/24865379|title=Religion in the Chronicles of Narnia|date=November 21, 2013|via=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2018-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012010155/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/0/24865379|archive-date=2018-10-12|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the author, Aslan is not an [[allegorical]] portrayal of Christ, but rather a suppositional [[incarnation]] of Christ Himself:', 59 => '', 60 => '{{quote|If Aslan represented the immaterial [[Deity]], he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however, he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, "What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?" This is not allegory at all.<ref name="RootMartindale2012">{{cite book|last1=Root|first1=Jerry|last2=Martindale|first2=Wayne|title=The Quotable Lewis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kO0JeQn2TxAC&pg=PA59|date=12 March 2012|publisher=Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.|isbn=978-1-4143-5674-7|pages=59–}}</ref>}}', 61 => '', 62 => 'In one of his last letters, Lewis wrote, "Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He [Christ] would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here. I pictured Him becoming a lion there because (a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts; (b) Christ is called "The Lion of Judah" in the Bible; (c) I'd been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work."<ref name="Ford">{{cite book |title=Companion to Narnia: Revised Edition |url=https://archive.org/details/pocketcompaniont00ford |url-access=registration |last=Ford |first=Paul |year=2005 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pocketcompaniont00ford/page/6 6] |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |location=[[San Francisco]] |isbn=978-0-06-079127-8 }}</ref>', 63 => ' ', 64 => 'The similarity between the death and resurrection of Aslan and the [[death and resurrection of Jesus]] is obvious; one author has observed that like Jesus, Aslan was ridiculed before his death, mourned, and then discovered to be absent from the place where his body had been laid.<ref name="johnvisser">{{cite web|url=http://cslewis.drzeus.net/papers/lionwitchallegory.html|title=Into the Wardrobe|author=John Visser|access-date=2018-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115082435/http://cslewis.drzeus.net/papers/lionwitchallegory.html|archive-date=2012-01-15|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenarnian.com/index.php/site/comments/christian_themes_in_the_lion_the_witch_and_the_wardrobe/|title=Christian Themes In The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - The Narnian|access-date=2018-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018161809/http://www.thenarnian.com/index.php/site/comments/christian_themes_in_the_lion_the_witch_and_the_wardrobe/|archive-date=2018-10-18|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="readingmatters.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/idea.php?id=3|title=Reading Matters: Page moved|access-date=2018-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217004509/http://readingmatters.co.uk/idea.php?id=3|archive-date=2017-02-17|url-status=live}}</ref> In this interpretation, the girls Susan and Lucy who witness Aslan's death, mourn him and witness his resurrection would stand for [[The Three Marys]] of Christian tradition.', 65 => '', 66 => 'Aslan's words to the Calormene in ''The Last Battle'' ("I take to me the services which thou hast done to [the false god]... if any man swear by [him] and keep his oath for the oath's sake, it is by [Aslan] that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him"), ratifying the good deeds the latter did even in service to a false god, have been the subject of controversy because they implicitly endorse [[Inclusivism#Christianity|inclusivism]].<ref name=McCormack>{{cite journal|last=McCormack|first=Elissa|title=Inclusivism in the Fiction of C.S. Lewis: The Case of Emeth|journal=Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture|date=2008|volume=11|issue=4|pages=57–73|doi=10.1353/log.0.0017|s2cid=170304073}}</ref>', 67 => '', 68 => '==Adaptations==', 69 => 'In the [[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967 TV serial)|1967 TV serial]], Aslan was portrayed by [[Bernard Kay]].', 70 => '', 71 => 'In the [[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979 film)|1979 animated film]], Aslan was voiced by [[Stephen Thorne]], who later voiced Aslan in all seven of the BBC Radio 4 Tales of Narnia series.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/CS-Lewis-Tales-Of-Narnia-The-LionWitch-And-The-Wardrobe/release/14134194|title=C.S. Lewis – Tales Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe|website=Discogs}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/CS-Lewis-The-Chronicles-Of-Narnia-Prince-Caspian-A-BBC-Radio-4-Full-Cast-Dramatisation/release/7428519|title=C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation|website=Discogs | access-date = 10 May 2021}}</ref>', 72 => '', 73 => 'In the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] television adaptations of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia (TV series)|The Chronicles of Narnia]]'', Aslan was performed by [[Ailsa Berk]] and [[William Todd-Jones]] and voiced by [[Ronald Pickup]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Chronicles of Narnia (UK) |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-chronicles-of-narnia-uk/cast/ |website=TV.com |access-date=2020-09-11 |archive-date=2016-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823012843/http://www.tv.com/shows/the-chronicles-of-narnia-uk/cast/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/lion-witch-wardrobe-made-bbc-take-children-seriously/|title = How the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe made the BBC take children seriously|newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph]]|date = 23 December 2021|last1 = Fordy|first1 = Tom}}</ref>', 74 => '', 75 => 'In the [[Focus on the Family]] Radio Theatre dramatisations, Aslan was portrayed by [[David Suchet]].', 76 => '', 77 => 'In the 2005 film, ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'', the [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] Aslan was voiced by [[Liam Neeson]]. Neeson also voiced Aslan in the sequel, ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian]]'' in 2008, and in the third film in the series, ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'' in 2010.<ref name="pc-return">{{cite news | title = Caspian to be Second Narnia movie | work = [[BBC News]] | date = 18 January 2006 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4625478.stm | access-date = 1 December 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081230214745/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4625478.stm | archive-date = 2008-12-30 | url-status = live }}</ref>', 78 => '', 79 => '==References==', 80 => '{{Reflist}}', 81 => '', 82 => '==External links==', 83 => '* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363771/characters/nm0000553?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_151/ Imdb.com: Aslan]', 84 => '* [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lion/section10.rhtml SparkNotes reference to the meaning of Aslan's death]', 85 => '* [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/010/22.32.html "Aslan is still on the move"] ''Christianity Today'' editorial, 6 August 2001.', 86 => '', 87 => '{{Narnia}}', 88 => '{{Portal bar|Speculative fiction}}', 89 => '', 90 => '[[Category:Lions in literature]]', 91 => '[[Category:Fictional lions]]', 92 => '[[Category:Fictional kings]]', 93 => '[[Category:Fictional gods]]', 94 => '[[Category:Fiction about God]]', 95 => '[[Category:Fiction about talking animals]]', 96 => '[[Category:Cultural depictions of Jesus]]', 97 => '[[Category:Christ figures in fiction]]', 98 => '[[Category:The Chronicles of Narnia characters]]', 99 => '[[Category:Kings and Queens of Narnia]]', 100 => '[[Category:Literary characters introduced in 1950]]' ]