help me with QUESTIONs

[FantasyNerd]

Help with questions!!!

1. Can you tell me what each of the pictures on the wardrobe represent with respect to MN?

2. How is the bird in MN significant?

3. How did the witch become the king's hangman and to what king does that refer?

4. what happened to king whoever and his wife helen? what happened to end their reign and start the witch's?

5. Are the cabby and his wife the parents of Peter Susan Edmund and Lucy? I only say this because their mum's name is Helen...

6. what are the line of monarchs from the cabby to Tirian and so forth.

7. If they make a movie out of horse and his boy, do you think there will be a hand gesture when they say "may he live forever"? And how will they make the movie without making it seem like they are trying to make Muslims look evil, same with LB.

8. If Jadis is immortal, how does Aslan kill her?

9.Does anyone know anything much about the emperor beyond the sea?

TIA!!

[lions mane]

Help with questions!!!

1. Can you tell me what each of the pictures on the wardrobe represent with respect to MN?

2. How is the bird in MN significant?

3. How did the witch become the king's hangman and to what king does that refer?

4. what happened to king whoever and his wife helen? what happened to end their reign and start the witch's?

5. Are the cabby and his wife the parents of Peter Susan Edmund and Lucy? I only say this because their mum's name is Helen...

6. what are the line of monarchs from the cabby to Tirian and so forth.

7. If they make a movie out of horse and his boy, do you think there will be a hand gesture when they say "may he live forever"? And how will they make the movie without making it seem like they are trying to make Muslims look evil, same with LB.

8. If Jadis is immortal, how does Aslan kill her?

9.Does anyone know anything much about the emperor beyond the sea?

TIA!!
1)the only pics. on the wardrobe is the wardrobe on the movie, and i can't remember anything other then the tree, and that should be very obvious, for narnia!

2)it's significant because it's there to watch what digory does, to make sure he don't do anything he's not so post to!

3)i have no idea what you're talking about! there!

4)nothing happened to them they had a long and happy reign, and Jadis didn't come to power untill years and years later, after their reign!

5)no! they lived and died in narnia, how is that even possible!

6)there's no line what so ever, caspian and his fathers fathers came from another country, they just were long (long) decendents of the first king and queen!

7)i'm not sure how to answer the first question! maby! and i don't think they'll specifically look like muslims! and if they do, they won't make them look to evil! but i dunno!

8)cause aslan is the all and mighty!

9)no, nothing is mentioned about him other then being the main creator and aslans father! (god)


i can tell that u probably didn't read all the books yet! but i tried to help!

[FantasyNerd]

I read all of them except for LB.

I pretty much know what all the pictures on the wardrobe mean except for the one that looks like a hill with semi-circular steps on it and trees at the top and the other one which looks like a kingdom and could possibly be Charn I suppose.

The reason for my asking the second one is that I saw a picture of Tash and it reminded me of the bird a bit.

Aslan (or someone else) says in the movie that at some point the witch was the king's hangman and that's why all the traitors belong to her. What does this mean?

okay so halen and cabby had a good life. Was the witch recharging or something before she took control of Narnia? and what I really mean is whose reign did she interrupt to take over Narnia?

I realise the fifth question was stupid. I guess I took that whole Helen connection too seriously.

what I meant by question 6 was, does anybody know from the cabby to the last ruler (whoever) how does it go? Like the monarchs of england, who were all the monarchs of narnia and in what order?


just thought I'd explain myself. Thanks for your answer.

[lions mane]

I read all of them except for LB.

I pretty much know what all the pictures on the wardrobe mean except for the one that looks like a hill with semi-circular steps on it and trees at the top and the other one which looks like a kingdom and could possibly be Charn I suppose.

The reason for my asking the second one is that I saw a picture of Tash and it reminded me of the bird a bit.

Aslan (or someone else) says in the movie that at some point the witch was the king's hangman and that's why all the traitors belong to her. What does this mean?

okay so halen and cabby had a good life. Was the witch recharging or something before she took control of Narnia? and what I really mean is whose reign did she interrupt to take over Narnia?

I realise the fifth question was stupid. I guess I took that whole Helen connection too seriously.

what I meant by question 6 was, does anybody know from the cabby to the last ruler (whoever) how does it go? Like the monarchs of england, who were all the monarchs of narnia and in what order?


just thought I'd explain myself. Thanks for your answer.
o.k.! i have this great book called the pocket companion by paul ford and it basically explains everything that narnia doesn't really explain or is foggy on explaining!
well it's a good book and i highly suggest it, but 1st finish the series cause there's a lot of spoilers in there!

well nice helping u!

peace out!
lions mane

[Malacandra]

Help with questions!!!

1. Can you tell me what each of the pictures on the wardrobe represent with respect to MN?

2. How is the bird in MN significant?

3. How did the witch become the king's hangman and to what king does that refer?

4. what happened to king whoever and his wife helen? what happened to end their reign and start the witch's?

5. Are the cabby and his wife the parents of Peter Susan Edmund and Lucy? I only say this because their mum's name is Helen...

6. what are the line of monarchs from the cabby to Tirian and so forth.

7. If they make a movie out of horse and his boy, do you think there will be a hand gesture when they say "may he live forever"? And how will they make the movie without making it seem like they are trying to make Muslims look evil, same with LB.

8. If Jadis is immortal, how does Aslan kill her?

9.Does anyone know anything much about the emperor beyond the sea?

TIA!!

Greetings from Up Over...

1. Just made-up stuff by the filmmakers. You'd better ask them. They're not Lewis's work.

2. The one in the orchard? It's just there to keep an eye on the Tree of Life. It doesn't seem like it would have done anything much if Digory had been a thief - after all it let Jadis pinch one of the apples.

3. The Emperor's hangman. She's called that by Mr Beaver. This is one piece of retrofitting Lewis never addressed - she wasn't an intended part of Narnian creation from the beginning. (But granting Aslan and the Emperor "foreknowledge", it's possible the Emperor found a place for her suitable to her nature - until the time came when Aslan would be sacrificed, and death for traitors would no longer be the unbreakable law.)

4. What happened to King Frank and Queen Helen to end their reign? Old age. They didn't eat apples of life (and weren't intended to) so they handed over the kingdom to their son in due course. I'd forgotten until I reread the book recently that the sons and daughters married nymphs and river-gods and so on - of course there were no other humans in Narnia (the country) for them to marry. What happened to let Jadis in? Eventually the Tree of Protection fell down.

5. No. They'd have been old enough to have been Professor Kirke's parents, or very nearly.

6. Lewis never named the whole line. A couple of monarchs are mentioned in LB and nowhere else: Queen Swanswhite and King Gale. Anything else is speculation.

7. Who knows about the hand gesture? As to offending Muslims, I hope not. There's no reason why it need be more offensive than, say, Aladdin, which is also set in a sort of cod-Old-Middle-East background.

8. With his teeth and claws, I should think. "Immortal" meant only "not subject to death by old age or illness", it didn't mean she couldn't be killed by violence. Of course, when you're seven feet tall and can break cast iron with your bare hands, and an absurdly powerful sorceress into the bargain, you can generally cause a world of grief for anyone trying to start any violence.

9. No - only that Aslan is unswervingly obedient to him even when his own life is at stake, and that "working against the Emperor's magic" is unthinkable. But it's probably not stretching things too far to say that in some hard-to-understand way, Aslan is both one and the same as the Emperor and yet quite distinct from him.

Follow-up question:
okay so halen and cabby had a good life. Was the witch recharging or something before she took control of Narnia? and what I really mean is whose reign did she interrupt to take over Narnia?

It's not recorded who the last King of Narnia was before the White Witch. It's possible the human kings had died out. But what let her in was the fall of the Tree - the one Digory planted. It wasn't so much "recharging" as that she could not bear to approach the Tree. Mind you, as she had found out that her magic didn't work on Earth, it probably didn't in Narnia either, until she had had some centuries of research into new formulae.

[holyboy]

The bird represents the first joke in Narnia. There is a whole chapter in MN concerning the first joke of Narnia, and I know the bird made it, and he felt embarressed. I can't remember what the joke was, but you can always look it up!

[FantasyNerd]

thanks for your answers guys!
Malacandra- it's funny how you call the UK "Up Over"
I have to look at all the pictures more closely I know there is a picture of the bird in the tree of protection and of the two crowns that aslan gives the cabby and helen.

there is a picture of Fledge and of what I think is charn and of the sun rising in narnia and of aslan and what looks like the wax sculptures and the tree of protection. I don't know what one of the pictures means though.

I really want them to make all of the movies. I just hope the whole racist thing doesn't get in the way of Horse and his Boy as I really like the character Aravis.

[Queen Swanwhite]

**CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS**

1. The Rings (top right corner) - The magical green and yellow rings that transport the wearer to and from the Wodd between the Worlds.

The Wood between the Worlds (directly below it, on the right hand side) - The timeless forest between worlds, characterized by pools of water everywhere.

Charn (directly below that, on the right hand side) - The ruined city, a cruel and warlike civilization left cold and silent by the bitter power stryggle between Jadis and her sister, the Empress. Jadis ultimatley destroyed it when she uttered the Deplorable Word.

The Golden Bell (directly below, bottom right corner) - Young Digory, against his friend Polly's better judgement, follows the writings on the wall in the royal hall of Charn and with the hammer rings the enchanted bell, whose clang awakens Jadis and triggers an earthquake that destroys the still city.

The first Sunrise (center bottom) - Aslan sings Narnia into existence, and the sun rises with it.

Fledge, the Winged Horse (bottom left corner) - Originally the cab horse named Strawberry who is transported from London to Narnia. When Aslan sings Narnia into existence, he transforms Strawberry into a beautiful horse, who carries Digory and Polly to the garden.

The Garden on top of the Hill (above that, left hand side) - Aslan sends Digory to pick the Silver Apple from inside the faraway garden of the West, which sits on top of a steep, green hill, whose gates face the rising sun.

The bird in the Tree (above that, left hand side) - When Digory is taking the Silver Apple from the tree in the garden on top of the hill, he notices a wonderful, exotic bird watching him and decides against taking an apple for himself.

The Apple (above that, upper left corner) - There are tow apples of note in The Magician's Nephew. First is the Silver Apple that Aslan commandsDigory to get from the garden of the West. When Digory returns, Aslan has him plant the apple and from it grows the Tree of Protection, which keeps the White Witch out of Narnia for a time. Digory picks an apple from this new tree, and when he brings it home and gives it to his dying mother, the magic apple cures her.

Two Crowns (top center) - The two crowns symbolize the coronation of King Frank and Queen Helen, the first king and queen of Narnia.

The Apple Tree (center) - After Digory feeds his mother the apple from Narnia and it heals her, he buries the core in his backyard. This magnifecent apple soon springs from it. Years later, when a gale finally blows down the tree, Digory can't bear to have it chopped up, so he had part of the timber made into a very special wardrobe that Lucy Pevensie would one day discover in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

[FantasyNerd]

the wood between the worlds, that's what I didn't get!

I didn't realise the semi-circular things were the pools! Thanks!