How was the Pevensies' disappearance explained?

[LifeMaiden]

Did you guys ever wonder...as I am at this moment LOL...what the creatures of Narnia thought when the four Pevensies went back into the wardrobe after their years of ruling Narnia? How would that be explained? Other than in Prince Caspian, where it is mentioned " they disappeared"...that was the only brief explanation.


I wonder what everyone in Narnia was thinking after the kings and queens just...vanished.

[-Daughter of Eve-]

I've actually been thinking about that too.I mean they must have thought something about it..they must have been wondering how and why it happened.There's no good explanation for it in the books,from what I can remember..

[Son of Adam]

I'm not sure, but I would imagine that as the story of the disappearance of the 2 kings and 2 queens of Narnia disappearing, a legend would have come out of it something like Aslan Himself came and needed them elsewhere and so they left with Him. Now that would be the simplest story and one that most people would have believed.

I think also though that since it was Mr. Tumnus who told the 4 where the white stag had been seen and since they tied their horses by the lamppost, Mr. Tumnus would have known exactly what happened as he was there from the beginning with the children.

At least that's what I think. :confused:

[rosymole]

The disappearance of the children i think would have been as redily accepted as their 'appearemce' in the firts place. Aslan calls people and they come!
Similar things have happened in Narnia- consider how the Telmarines got there and how many of them eventually left.
Narnia is full of magic, known and nknown- it seems to be something the inhabitants accept and understand willingly.

[inkspot]

EveningStar will have the right of it -- he maintains all Narnian records from that time period ...

What say, John? How was the disappearance explained?

[EveningStar]

Here are three possibilities....

1) Alien abduction by little green furry talking spaceanimals.

2) Disappeared without a trace in the Calormen Triangle.

3) They got voted off Cair Paravel in the reality TV show "CASTLE!"

[office]

I`m guessing Aslan went back to Car Paravel and told the creatures.

[KathrynJanewayChakotay]

I have thought probably the time in Narnia is differnt then ours
So probably in Narnia they never really seemed to leave they reined for years and years and then maybe they were told then went to war and never returned or there wisdom was needed elswhere is what the creatures were told

[Lady Chloe]

Here are three possibilities....

1) Alien abduction by little green furry talking spaceanimals.

2) Disappeared without a trace in the Calormen Triangle.

3) They got voted off Cair Paravel in the reality TV show "CASTLE!"

NO WAY! :eek: LOL!

[Jadee]

NO WAY! :eek: LOL!
it could happen :p

[LifeMaiden]

Well I like EveningStar's CALORMEN TRIANGLE theory.... :D


Seriously this would be something for fanfic stories....a story about what happened in Narnia when the Pevensies just didn't come back from their hunt in the woods.

[narniakween101]

wow, ive never thought of that. its an interesting question though

[tottyfruitty]

omgh i was thinking that too
cos a day in the real world is like millions of years in narnia. that is one of the mistakes i think that hey did in narnia. i would really like a proper answer for that actually!!

[Narborg]

Here are three possibilities....

1) Alien abduction by little green furry talking spaceanimals.

2) Disappeared without a trace in the Calormen Triangle.

3) They got voted off Cair Paravel in the reality TV show "CASTLE!"


id say it was number 3. :D

[~Lava~]

We can go on speculating about this for years but will probably never decide on the true answer. That being said I would like to throw my hat into the arena of speculation. Maybe the Narnians knew that the Pevensies' time was up, (before they knew it themselves in the case of the Centuars). If not I am sure Aslan told them, and put someone like Lord Peridan or Mr. Tumnus in Charge. At any rate they would have known when Aslan came to appoint the new ruler. :) :p

[Into the Wardrobe]

Although I like Eveningstars ideas...here's an interesting one to ponder, although sort of sad...They were hunting the white stag, and when one does this it is not to kill it but rather because when you catch it, your wish is granted. Maybe some thought that they did catch the stag...and wished to return to their world. The Pevensies loved Narnia and always longed to be there...but it's a viable explanation to their disappearance.

I do think that Tumnus would know better though. I don't think there really was one explanation necessarily. Speculation...yes, folktales...probably, but Dr. Cornelius had the horn...and good explanations of most things, but no good answers for Caspian on that one...just that they disappeared. I think if Aslan would have shown up and told, he would have known that and said it. Just my 2 cents.

[timbalionguy]

Here are three possibilities....

1) Alien abduction by little green furry talking spaceanimals.

2) Disappeared without a trace in the Calormen Triangle.

3) They got voted off Cair Paravel in the reality TV show "CASTLE!"

LOL!! Great ones, Eveningstar!

[Copperfox]

Precisely because none of the Pevensies ever got married and left children to inherit the throne, it would be very much UNLIKE Aslan to abandon the kingdom to anarchy. So I agree that He would have told the Narnians that their kings and queens had returned to Earth, and that He would have helped establish someone else in authority. I don't think that Narnia went immediately from the departure of the Pevensies to the Telmarine takeover.

As a matter of fact...I've wondered if the White Stag, who does not otherwise figure in the stories, really WAS Aslan in a change of outer form?

[CyberCat]

Who took the place of King Peter, King, Edmund, Queen Lucy, and Queen Susan... :eek: They had no children, and obviously never married...


Well, Susan would have married Rabadash.... and it almost led to a war. Luckily, Edmund and Lucy rode fourth to war and fixed that big mistake...

But seriously, is that when Aslan made Caspian's line?

[Isabel Moseley]

well dont you remembre king miraz or something rules over narnia and all? :confused:

[LifeMaiden]

Who took the place of King Peter, King, Edmund, Queen Lucy, and Queen Susan... :eek: They had no children, and obviously never married...


Well, Susan would have married Rabadash.... and it almost led to a war. Luckily, Edmund and Lucy rode fourth to war and fixed that big mistake...

But seriously, is that when Aslan made Caspian's line?


Aslan didn't 'make' Caspian's line...the Telemarines came into Narnia by way of a portal like the Pevensies, except they were the descendants of sea-faring pirates.


King Miraz was a 'usurper' of the throne as Caspian's father had died ( or was murdered). But remember that Miraz was ABOUT to have Caspian killed since his wife Queen P gave birth to his own son.

None of that could be used to explain to the Narnians just where or 'why' the Pevensies had suddenly departed from their world.

[ABright5]

The people of Narnia knew that the four children just "appeared" at the beginning of "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe", so they probably just knew that they had returned back to their own world.

I'm sure I've read an explanation somewhere of what the people of Narnia thought.