Peter, Lucy, Edmund, Susan- Love lives, and Forshadowing...

[White Wolf]

Okay, we know the evil-soon-to be-donkey Rabadash had his evil calculating eyes on fair Susan the Gentle... but did those four not ever find love in 15 years?!

That's.... really sad if you think about it.... :(

LWW- Peter, Lucy, Edmund, and Susan fight the White Witch and defeat her army...

Jump a few years...

Horse and His Boy- Edmund and Susan run into trouble of the Tashban kind, Rabasah schemes, and Peter, Edmund, and Lucy right out to fight the good fight.

None of them ever fell in love or got married....?

Peter's trouncing giants, Lucy and Edmund are saving Archenland and Narnia from evil Calormen's, amd Susan... does what...? Sits high and comfy in Cair Paravel.... what if Lucy, Edmund or Peter got injured? Where's the cordial? Cair Paravel!

It steamed me that Susan got to relax while the other three were fighting :mad:

[PrinceOfTheWest]

I think that's reading a lot into the stories. Extrapolating from the hints one gets of the Golden Age (there aren't many), my guess would be that Susan ended up with the role of Chatelaine of Cair Paravel (one of the many titles falsely claimed by Jadis), which meant that she ran the castle - no small feat, especially since the Four had to get an entire government up and running after the fall of a tyrant!

You've got a point regarding the progress of "normal life" - since all four got well into marrying age, why did nothing ever come of that? Especially for the women, whom Lewis records as having had several suitors? Lewis implies in Lion that they essentially forgot their origins in Narnia (though he seems to contradict that when he has the grown Queen Lucy tell the story of the wardrobe at a banquet at Anvard in Horse), so there'd be no reason they'd be holding off because they thought they'd have to return to our world someday. I think we just have to chalk this up to Lewis bending what would be reasonable and normal for people in that situation to the convenience of the story. (Just the sort of thing that drove "Tollers" mad!)

[alicia b.]

Okay, we know the evil-soon-to be-donkey Rabadash had his evil calculating eyes on fair Susan the Gentle... but did those four not ever find love in 15 years?!

That's.... really sad if you think about it.... :(

LWW- Peter, Lucy, Edmund, and Susan fight the White Witch and defeat her army...

Jump a few years...

Horse and His Boy- Edmund and Susan run into trouble of the Tashban kind, Rabasah schemes, and Peter, Edmund, and Lucy right out to fight the good fight.

None of them ever fell in love or got married....?

Peter's trouncing giants, Lucy and Edmund are saving Archenland and Narnia from evil Calormen's, amd Susan... does what...? Sits high and comfy in Cair Paravel.... what if Lucy, Edmund or Peter got injured? Where's the cordial? Cair Paravel!

It steamed me that Susan got to relax while the other three were fighting :mad:
Yeah I hate it to that Susan just gets to relax while the others are fighting. And Lucy likes to fight while Susan does not.

[White Wolf]

I know, I read Horse And His Boy and loved it, but the part that gripped me was the huge Narnian army riding out, and King Edmund (I love Peter and all, but Edmund gets his day once and a while, eh?)

::drumroll::

Lucy depicted on a charger, dressed in chainmail, a helmet and with a bow and arrow.

I LOVED that part! :cool:

Written proof that girls can fight, and not overdramatize it. It was completely accepted!

That's why HASB goes right under LWW, and PC. Lucy also states that Peter forbade her from carrying her coridal to the 'wars' as in she fights more than once.

Susan had better give her siblings a HUGE welcome home party when they get back from the frontlines :) Perhaps Susan's 'girlish' mode depcits how she falls from Aslan and Narnia in later years....?

Still... where was Peter?!..... :(