"Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech."

— Aslan in The Magician's Nephew

I've just been searching to see if we already have a jokes thread on NarniaWeb — it seems there were a couple in the past, but they've been inactive for over 10 years and are closed.

If it's OK with everyone, I'd just love to start a new one! Narnia-related jokes especially, of course, but I'm sure anything that is clean and appropriate — and likely to be enjoyed by fans of Narnia and other classic fantasy! — should be fine.

(Including old jokes, naturally. In the immortal words of Lewis again, "you've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years" (The Last Battle)... )

Here are a couple of topical ones I've heard fairly recently:

"My local bookshop is having a sale — 1/3 off all titles. I've just bought The Lion, the Witch."

And (sorry the pun in this one only works properly with a non-rhotic accent... fine for most Brits as well as Aussies and New Zealanders, though):

Q. What does C.S. Lewis keep in his wardrobe?

Spoiler

Answer

Narnia business!