Chronicles of Narnia

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

When the Pevensie children, Peter,

Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are sent out

of London during World War II, they have

no idea of the magical journey they are

beginning. In the darkness of the old

country house where they are sent, the

children stumble through an old

wardrobe to the land of Narnia, where

animals talk and magic exists. This is the

first story of Narnia written by C.S. Lewis

and it tells the story of how these four

children with the help of Aslan, the Great

Lion, help defeat the White Witch who

holds Narnia. The first of the children to make their way into Narnia is Lucy, the

youngest. There she meets Mr. Tumnus the faun who confesses to her that he is an

agent of the White Witch and he is supposed to capture any humans he meets. He

explains that the Witch has held Narnia under an enchantment which makes it always

winter and never Christmas. The only way the Witch can be defeated is to have four

humans sit on the throne at the castle of Cair Paravel. When Lucy returns home, her

brothers and sister think she is either lying or crazy, but soon Edmund follows Lucy into

the world and meets the White Witch who plies him with Turkish Delight extracting a

promise from him that he will bring his siblings to her. Finally, all of the children go

through the wardrobe into Narnia. There they go on a journey to rescue Tumnus who

has been arrested, find Aslan the Great Lion and defeat the White Witch forever. While

a wonderful adventure, the story is also allegorical in nature telling symbolically the
story of Christ's sacrifice on the cross. Aslan the Great Lion is a Christ figure who

sacrifices his life to save Edmund's. During the journey to find Aslan, Edmund betrays

his siblings and goes to join the White Witch becoming her prisoner. After his rescue,

the witch approaches Aslan claiming the right to Edmund's life because of his traitorous

act. Aslan later goes willingly to the Witch in Edmund's place, letting her kill him. As the

girls, Lucy and Susan secretly watch he is shorn of his mane, tied up and killed. As they

dispair, he suddenly appears to them alive again and leads them to the aid of Peter's

army defeating the Witch forever. The children spend years in Narnia where they grow

up to be Kings and Queens having many adventures until one day they are hunting in

the woods and find their way back to their own world through the Wardrobe. There they

are children again and find that no time at all has passed.
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERES STONE
Harry Potter has been living an ordinary life,
constantly abused by his surly and cold aunt and
uncle, Vernon and Petunia Dursley and bullied by
their spoiled son Dudley since the death of his
parents ten years prior. His life changes on the
day of his eleventh birthday when he receives a
letter of acceptance into Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry, delivered by a half-giant
named Rubeus Hagrid after previous letters had
been destroyed by Harry's Uncle Vernon and his
Aunt Petunia. Hagrid explains Harry's hidden past
as the wizard son of James and Lily Potter, who
were a wizard and witch respectively, and how
they were murdered by the most evil and
powerful dark wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort,
which resulted in the one-year-old Harry being
sent to live with his aunt and uncle. Somehow
Voldemort was unable to kill Harry, but instead
had his own powers removed and blasted away,
sparking Harry's immense fame among the
magical community.
Hagrid introduces Harry to the wizarding world, bringing him to places such as Diagon Alley,
a hidden London street where Harry gets his owl Hedwig and various school supplies, and
Gringotts Wizarding Bank, where he uncovers a fortune left to him by his parents in his
vault. There, he is surprised to discover how famous he truly is among witches and wizards.
A month later, Harry leaves the Dursleys' home to catch the Hogwarts Express from King's
Cross railway station's secret Hogwarts platform, Platform 9 3⁄4. On the train, he quickly
befriends fellow first-year Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, whose snobbiness and
affinity for spells initially causes the two boys to dislike her. There, Harry also makes an
enemy of yet another first-year, Draco Malfoy, who shows prejudice against Ron for his
family's financial difficulties.
Arriving at Hogwarts, the first-years are assigned by the magical Sorting Hat to Houses that
best suit their personalities, the four Houses being Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and
Ravenclaw. Harry hears from Ron about Slytherin's dark reputation which is known to
house potential dark witches and wizards, and thus objects to being sorted into Slytherin
despite the Hat claiming that Harry has potential to develop under that House. He winds up
in Gryffindor with Ron and Hermione, while Draco is sorted into Slytherin like his whole
family before him.
As classes begin at Hogwarts, Harry discovers his innate talent for flying on broomsticks
despite no prior experience, and is recruited into his House's Quidditch (a competitive
wizards' sport played in the air) team as a Seeker. He also comes to dislike the school's
Potions master, Severus Snape, who is also the Head of Slytherin House who acts with bias
in favour of members of his House while perpetually looking for opportunities to fail Harry
and his friends. Malfoy tricks Harry and Ron into a duel in the trophy room to get them out
of their rooms at night and secretly tells Filch, the school's caretaker, where they will be.
Hermione unintentionally is forced to come along after her attempts to stop them fail.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione then find Gryffindor student Neville asleep outside the common
area because he had forgotten the password to get in. After realizing the duel was a set-up
to get them in trouble, they run away. They then discover a huge three-headed dog
standing guard over a trapdoor in a forbidden corridor. The school year is interrupted by
the entrance of a troll into the school, which enters the girls' bathroom where Hermione
was. However she is saved by Harry and Ron and, as a result, Hermione is grateful and the
three become best friends. Coupled with Snape's recent leg injury as well as behaviour, the
recent events prompt Harry, Hermione and Ron to suspect him to be looking for a way to
enter the trapdoor.
Hermione forbids the boys from investigating for fear of expulsion, and instead makes Harry
direct his attention to his first ever Quidditch game, where his broomstick begins to lose
control and threatens to throw him off. This leads Hermione to suspect that Snape is jinxing
Harry's broom due to his strange behaviour during the match. After the excitement of
winning the match has died down, Christmas approaches and Harry receives an invisibility
cloak from an anonymous source claiming that the cloak belonged to Harry's father. Using
the cloak to explore the school at night to investigate the possibility of what is under the
trapdoor, he discovers the Mirror of Erised, in which the viewer sees his or her deepest
desires come true.
A visit to Hagrid's cottage at the foot of the school leads the trio to find a newspaper report
stating there had been an attempted robbery of a Gringotts vault—the same vault that
Hagrid and Harry had visited when Harry was getting his school supplies. A further
indiscretion from Hagrid allows them to work out that the object kept under that trapdoor
is a Philosopher's Stone, which grants its user immortality as well as the ability to turn any
metal into pure gold. Harry is also informed by a centaur named Firenze in the forest that a
plot to steal the Stone is being orchestrated by none other than Voldemort himself, who
schemes to use it to be restored back to his body and return to power. When the school's
headmaster Albus Dumbledore is lured from Hogwarts under false pretences, Harry,
Hermione and Ron fear that the theft is imminent and descend through the trapdoor
themselves.
They encounter a series of obstacles, each of which requires unique skills possessed by one
of the three, and one of which requires Ron to sacrifice himself in a life-sized game of
wizard's chess. In the final room, Harry, now alone, finds Quirinus Quirrell, the Defence
Against the Dark Arts teacher, who had been the one working behind the scenes to kill
Harry by first jinxing his broom and then letting a troll into the school. Snape had been
trying to protect Harry instead, who had wronged him. Now, Quirrell is partly possessed by
Voldemort, whose face has sprouted on the back of Quirrell's head but is constantly
concealed by his oversized turban. Voldemort needs Harry's help to get past the final
obstacle: the Mirror of Erised, forcing him to stand before the Mirror. It recognises Harry's
lack of greed for the Stone and surreptitiously deposits it into his pocket. As Quirrell
attempts to seize the stone and kill Harry, his flesh burns on contact with the boy's skin and
breaks into blisters.
Harry's scar suddenly burns with pain, and he passes into unconsciousness. Three days
later, he awakens in the school's infirmary, where Dumbledore explains his survival against
Voldemort to be owed to his mother's sacrificing her life in order for him to live, leaving a
powerful protective charm on Harry that lives in his blood, burning Quirrell, who was
possessed by hatred and greed. He also reveals himself as the one who sent Harry his
father's invisibility cloak, while Quirrell has been left to die by Voldemort and the Stone has
now been destroyed. The eventful school year ends at the final feast, during which
Gryffindor wins the House Cup. Harry returns to Privet Drive for the summer, neglecting to
tell the Dursleys that the use of spells is forbidden by under-aged wizards and witches and
thus anticipating some fun and peace over the holidays.
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
In the Second Age of Middle-earth, the lords
of Elves, Dwarves, and Men are given
Rings of Power. Unbeknownst to them,
the Dark Lord Sauron forges the One
Ring in Mount Doom, infusing into it a
great part of his power to dominate,
through it and at a distance, the other
Rings, so he might conquer Middle-
earth. A final alliance of men and elves
battles Sauron's forces in Mordor,
where Prince Isildur of Gondor severs
Sauron's finger, and the Ring with it,
thereby destroying his physical form.
With Sauron's first defeat, the Third
Age of Middle-earth begins.
Unfortunately, the Ring's influence
corrupts Isildur, and, rather than
destroy the Ring, Isildur takes it for
himself. Isildur is later killed by Orcs,
and the Ring is lost for 2,500 years, until it is found by Gollum, who owns it for
five centuries. The Ring is then found by a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins.

Sixty years later, Bilbo celebrates his 111th birthday in the Shire, reuniting with
his old friend, Gandalf the Grey. Bilbo reveals that he intends to leave the Shire
for one last adventure, and he leaves his inheritance, including the Ring, to his
nephew, Frodo. Although Bilbo has begun to become corrupted by the Ring and
tries to keep it for himself, Gandalf intervenes. Gandalf, suspicious of the Ring,
tells Frodo to keep it secret and to keep it safe. Gandalf then investigates the
Ring, discovers its true identity, and returns to warn Frodo. Gandalf also learns
that Gollum was tortured by Orcs, and that Gollum uttered two words during his
torture: "Shire" and "Baggins." Gandalf instructs Frodo to leave the Shire,
accompanied by his gardener Samwise Gamgee. Gandalf rides to Isengard to
meet with fellow wizard Saruman the White, but learns that he has joined forces
with Sauron, who has dispatched the nine Nazgûl to find Frodo. After a brief
battle, Saruman imprisons Gandalf. Frodo and Sam are joined by fellow hobbits
Merry and Pippin, and they evade the Nazgûl, arriving in Bree, where they are
meant to meet Gandalf. However, Gandalf never arrives, and they are instead
aided by a ranger named Strider, a friend of Gandalf's, who escorts them to
Rivendell.
The hobbits are ambushed by the Nazgûl on Weathertop, and their leader, the
Witch-King, stabs Frodo with a cursed Morgul blade. Arwen, an elf and Strider's
betrothed, comes to Frodo's aid, rescuing him and incapacitating the Nazgûl. She
takes him to Rivendell, where he is healed. Frodo meets Gandalf, who escaped
Isengard with help from Gwaihir, a giant eagle. Arwen's father, Lord Elrond, holds
a council that decides the Ring must be destroyed in Mount Doom. While the
members argue, Frodo volunteers to take the Ring, accompanied by Gandalf,
Sam, Merry, Pippin, elf Legolas, dwarf Gimli, Boromir of Gondor, and Strider, who
is revealed to be Aragorn, Isildur's heir and the rightful King of Gondor. Bilbo gives
Frodo his sword, Sting. The Fellowship of the Ring sets off, but Saruman's magic
forces them to travel through the Mines of Moria, much to Gandalf's displeasure.

The Fellowship discovers that the dwarves within Moria have been slain, and they
are attacked by Orcs and a cave troll. They defeat them, but are confronted by
Durin’s Bane, a Balrog residing within the mines. Gandalf casts the Balrog into a
vast chasm, but it drags Gandalf down into the darkness with it. The rest of the
Fellowship, now led by Aragorn, reaches Lothlórien, home to elves Galadriel and
Celeborn. Galadriel privately informs Frodo that only he can complete the quest,
and that one of his friends will try to take the Ring. Meanwhile, Saruman creates
an army of Uruk-hai to track down and kill the Fellowship.

The Fellowship leaves Lothlórien by river to Parth Galen. Frodo wanders off and is
confronted by Boromir, who tries to take the Ring in desperation. Afraid of the
Ring corrupting his friends, Frodo decides to travel to Mordor alone. The
Fellowship is then ambushed by the Uruk-hai. Merry and Pippin are taken captive,
and Boromir is mortally wounded by the Uruk chieftain, Lurtz. Aragorn arrives and
slays Lurtz, and watches Boromir die peacefully. Sam follows Frodo,
accompanying him to keep his promise to Gandalf to protect Frodo, while
Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli go to rescue Merry and Pippin.