Lewis was interested in the evacuees and what it might be like for children to be uprooted from their homes and sent into a strange, unknown world.
This strange image would stay with Lewis for decades until his chance encounter with some children who had been evacuated from London during World War II. It was just a mental picture-a picture of a Faun, a mythical half-man half-goat, carrying an armload of packages and sheltering himself with an umbrella as he walked through a snowy wood. It wasn't a spiritual vision or a great artistic vision or some kind of prophecy. We're talking about the origin story of this classic work of kid's lit. The story of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe has a weird beginning.Īnd we're not talking about the line, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy." Because that's about as un-weird as first lines get.except for the inclusion of the name "Edmund" (which isn't so much "weird" as it is "more British than Michael Caine eating scones with the Queen.") The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Introduction
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