Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 by Paul Martin 
This day was a very interesting day. Our driver for the week, Christian, had a surprise for us. It was something he was talking about all week, but we had no idea what it was going to be. We were under the impression that we had to be at the Dawn Treader early in the day for some more sailing. We were also moving to a new hotel in Padstow.
As we were driving around, Christian was telling us about a game that his parents used to do when they had a surprise for him. “Am I going to turn left, am I going to turn right? No, I’m going straight on!” And suddenly we pulled into a ranch. “Somebody has arranged horseback riding on the beach for you!”
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 by Jonathon Svendsen Hey, everybody! Welcome back to Tumnus’s Bookshelf, where we review any and all books by, about and inspired by CS Lewis and the land of Narnia. For today’s review we will be looking at KSR Kingworth’s new fantasy novel, Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador’s Gate.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 by Paul Martin 
A Swindon-built Great Western Railway express steam locomotive that appeared in the 2005 worldwide hit children’s film ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ is to be the historic star of the Swanage Railway’s exciting autumn steam gala.
It will be the first time that a Manor class steam locomotive has ever visited the Swanage Railway – both since the award-winning heritage line was rebuilt from nothing by volunteers from 1976 as well as during the branch line’s time under the Southern Railway Company and then British Railways.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 by Paul Martin Recently Pshawn sat down with Rynelf himself, Tony Nixon, to talk about The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. They talk about costuming, filming on a boat and the reasons to do it on land, and more! If you’ve read the book, there are no major spoilers here.
Big thanks to Pshawn and Tony Nixon for taking the time to do this interview for us! It’s a 30-minute interview, and I hope that you enjoy it!
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 by Paul Martin 
The official Narnia website has just added the ability to disembark onto Narrowhaven within the game on the site. There you’ll find more secrets, including a little bit from Lord Bern, as well as a Water Nymph.
If you click the sword, it reveals this secret:
What a fine sword you’ve found! Its craftmanship marks this as a royal weapon: this is a sword belonging to one of the Lost Lords of Narnia. Ther are seven swords in total, one for each Lost Lord… Can you find them all? It’s a challenging task, but well worth the effort if you can see it through.
Looks like the challenge is going to begin here at Narrowhaven and spread throughout the rest of the islands.
Monday, September 6th, 2010 by Paul Martin 
While in England for the past week, I managed to track down the latest issue of Empire, which has Harry Potter on the cover. However, it does have a spread on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It’s a very long article, that features the same photo that MTV released last week. With the summer movie season over, just about every magazine that talks about the entertainment industry is going to make mention of Narnia. I must note, however, that Entertainment Weekly was notably weak in this regard, giving it only a single sentence in their fall preview issue.
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Monday, September 6th, 2010 by Paul Martin 
National Faith and Culture Examiner Bob Beltz has just begun a twelve week series that will lead up to the premiere of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on December 10. Over the next twelve weeks, he’s going to be writing articles based on the book as he re-reads it in preparation for the film. If you would like to, he invites you to read along with him.
I started thinking this week that this is only three months, or roughly twelve weeks away. To get myself ready for the film I decided to go back and read the book. I also thought it might be helpful for those of you who subscribe to this Examiner site if I wrote a small synopsis each week of a chapter from the book as a countdown to the opening of the film. If I combine a couple of the chapters, I can take you through the story in twelve weekly articles and together we can get ready for the next trip to Narnia. (via Bob Beltz)
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Monday, September 6th, 2010 by Paul Martin 
We’re cooking up an interview with the composer, but while we await the answers to our questions, we thought we’d take the time to let you know that David Arnold has begun recording the score for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It’s great to know that new Narnia music is currently starting to come together!
Here are the tweets he’s written about it until this point:
12x 7 day weeks worth of composition,87 piece orchestra,40 piece choir,Wardrobe is open….Narnia start tomorrow……….. (via)
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010 by Jonathon Svendsen We have just received words that a 7.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, on the South Island of New Zealand. The quake hit at 4:35 AM New Zealand time. Strong aftershocks have been reported, including one measuring at a 5.3 magnitude.
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010 by Mike Comingsoon.net has posted a lengthy set report from their time vising last summer’s production of “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” They write:
“The film was shot on location in Australia and ComingSoon.net was the only domestic outlet invited to the set. Not only did we talk to the director Michael Apted, but we were able to speak with the entire cast as well and watch them shoot a couple of scenes.
“A lot of the movie was shot on soundstages on the Gold Coast, which is about 45 minutes from Brisbane and 20 minutes from Surfer’s Paradise. The day after we arrived, we hung out at the studio which was nestled between the Warner Brothers’ Movie World and a Wet n’ Wild water park. It was interesting, because all day you could hear people screaming from the roller coasters next door as you walked around the different stages.”
This day was a very interesting day. Our driver for the week, Christian, had a surprise for us. It was something he was talking about all week, but we had no idea what it was going to be. We were under the impression that we had to be at the Dawn Treader early in the day for some more sailing. We were also moving to a new hotel in Padstow.
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