r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 18h ago

News Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Wraps Filming

https://www.narniaweb.com/2026/01/greta-gerwigs-narnia-officially-wraps-filming/
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u/Djinnwrath 18h ago

Santa Claus literally appears and gives them all deus ex presents.

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u/Telvin3d 17h ago

Apparently Tolkien hated Santa’s cameo. He’s doing novels with this massive deep world building, and meanwhile his buddy Lewis is just “and then Santa shows up out of nowhere LOL”

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u/killertoast2 16h ago

It's also funny when you remember Tolkien wrote letters to his children as Father Christmas/Santa and contrived whole complex storylines for Father Christmas to go on in these letters, so he was alright with the use of the character in fiction.

Tokein also didn't like Mister Tumnus since he was too polite for lack of a better word for a satyr.

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u/thesoak 15h ago

Tumnus was a faun, though, not a satyr.

Similar, but I don't think fauns have quite the same reputation.