Hmmm Liked This Book

[susan_rocks_17]

This Book I Will Say Would Be Best Accpet For The 2nd Book And The Last Battle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Crimson]

what book? what do u mean

[Tirian of Narnia]

He prolly means the silver chair. (chek the part of the forums you're in lol)

[Isabel Moseley]

tirian is kindda cool.
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[Isabel Moseley]

tirian is kindda cool.
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You are most like Peter Pevensie, once High King of Narnia. As Peter, you are brave, loyal yet intelligent, and are greatly respected for upholding what you think is right.
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[Tirian of Narnia]

tirian is kindda cool.
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You are most like Peter Pevensie, once High King of Narnia. As Peter, you are brave, loyal yet intelligent, and are greatly respected for upholding what you think is right.
Narnia Personality Quiz (http://www.thequizzery.com/quiz.php?id=1)
Kinda cool? He's alot more than kind cool, cuz he ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

[milo_goldwater>knight]

its a very good book, i just think its weird how its called the silver chair,it only comes out in one page or so. may be its because its the enchantment, spell, and magic of the book,and what it represents for the story.

[rosymole]

The title' The Silver chair' is quite symbolic i think...only when Rilian is i the chair does he have his real memories...Jill struggles to rememeber what she needs to, and you could asay that Eustace rememebers so much about his last visit to the Narnian world that it improves him even further..or something..memory..duty etc??

[The First Joke]

so far, i've read: the magician's nephew, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, the horse and his boy, prince caspian, the silver chair, and i'm in the process of reading the last battle. the best book EVER is the silver chair! i mean name another book that includes man-eating giants, foot-injuring marsh-wiggles, to incredibly awesome kidds, snow, wind, and chairs made entirely out of silver. i challenge you to name another book that includes all of those things. go on... I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!
i think this is also one of the most symbolic in the series... christianity wise. i mean rilian (us) is bound to this chair (sin) and he needs too amazingly coold kids to cut the rope (God) and then and only then will we be our real selves. aww... where did i come up with that?

[office]

this book was good but not my fav

[inkspot]

The Silver Chair grows on you, I think, the older you get. Because you begin to realize more and more that even everyday things which you take for granted because everyone does it or everyone uses it, can be treacherous. It was just a chair Rilian was tied to, and yet it ruled his life because it kept him from escaping the witch when he could. No one would have thought twice about sitting in a chair; that's what it's there for. But really it was quite evil. It can be the same with our own habits and hang-ups -- we don't think twice about them, yet they can lead us down a path which is quite evil ...

Plus SC has the character of Puddleglum, a classic! you have to love him.

And SC has that beautiful scene where the witch has almost convinced them all there is no such thing as sunlight, above ground, or Aslan. She almost makes them think they imagined or made up Aslan! But at the least minute, PG breaks the spell and says even if Aslan is make-believe, he would rather go on pretending because Aslan is so much better than the dreary underworld!

It's a great moment if you look at the spiritual meanings of the books, because it's our answer to atheists and people who don't have faith in God: even if it's make-believe, it's better than what you've got. Although, we know our faith is real -- just as Aslan was real.
:)

[Emperor of the East]

Do you have any idea if the Green Witch and the White Witch have any connection?

[Narborg]

Good question!!! Acording to the Narnias, they do. However, there is nothing to say how. The White Whitch is the say as Jadas in TMN. Where dose the Green Lady came in? IS she her dugther maybe? We will never know. Anyone got ant thories?

[rosymole]

Jadis and the Lady of the Green Kirtle are not the same.
They are 'part of the same crew' according to Puddlelgum, but no definite link has ever been proven. It's quite possible that the WW could have increased her number..somehow..during the 100 years winter..and we know that the WW had a sister when she first appeared on the world. (MN)

[inkspot]

There is a whole thread on this question:
http://www.narniafans.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72

[LifeMaiden]

Jadis and the Lady of the Green Kirtle are not the same.
They are 'part of the same crew' according to Puddlelgum, but no definite link has ever been proven. It's quite possible that the WW could have increased her number..somehow..during the 100 years winter..and we know that the WW had a sister when she first appeared on the world. (MN)

I just spent the entire several hours finishing the Silver Chair. Very interesting reading. Loved the Green Witch, naturally...I definitely don't think there's any 'link' between Jadis and the Green Witch other than they were simply 'witches'...with different takeover styles. To me Jadis was the 'winter witch' and the Green Witch was sort of like...I don't know...related more to the earth and nature, as she was able to change into a snake/serpent and was under the ground plotting to take over Narnia.

Jadis' sister I believe perished in Charn when Jadis herself uttered the Forbidden World and basically wiped out everything on that world.

[arwenelizabeth]

I agree with Inkspot, I think Silver Chair definitely grows on you as you get older. When I was younger and my dad read us the books, I remember not liking it very much (that part where they almost get eaten is scary! and so are a lot of other parts of the book). But when I read it as an adult I really appreciated it, for the things Inkspot mentioned and many other reasons. So if you don't like it the first time, try it again in a couple years!

[Heidi.]

I'm just reading this "Silver chair" [at Finnish: Hopeinen tuoli. :D ] and I think it is not as good as example Prince Caspian. This is somehow very booring. But, it is my view. :)

[LifeMaiden]

its a very good book, i just think its weird how its called the silver chair,it only comes out in one page or so. may be its because its the enchantment, spell, and magic of the book,and what it represents for the story.


Funny as I thought the same thing too. I was expecting that the Silver Chair itself was going to be something that was actually NOT evil...something majestic and good. Instead it was there to keep Tirian in a horrible spell. It seems like the story revolved around Eustace and Jill anyways...even the Green Witch was very secondary as a character. This book was more adult in nature and though I enjoyed it very much, sort of strange, with those gnome-like creatures who originally were from the center of the world.

[timbalionguy]

its a very good book, i just think its weird how its called the silver chair,it only comes out in one page or so. may be its because its the enchantment, spell, and magic of the book,and what it represents for the story.

If you listen to Douglas Gresham's preface to the BBC Radio Theater adaptation of SC, he explains that the book had several different names before it was settled on 'The Sliver Chair'.

[timbalionguy]

i think this is also one of the most symbolic in the series... christianity wise. i mean rilian (us) is bound to this chair (sin) and he needs too amazingly coold kids to cut the rope (God) and then and only then will we be our real selves. aww... where did i come up with that?

The Silver Chair is my favorite of the Chronicles as well. The best parts are at the beginning, where Jill and Aslan have a conversation before she is blown into Narnia (Imagine riding on a lion's breath..mmmmmmm! :-) ) This is a great faith-challenger. Then, at the end, we see Caspian's redemption and ressurection in Aslan's country. And of course, there is Aslan and Caspian's brief visit to our world!

The story of the headmistress of Experiment House, and what became of her is priceless. The scary thing is I knew a person like that.... And yes, she eventually got involved in politics!

[inkspot]

I love the scene with PG stamping on the fire and asserting he'll go on believing in fairy tales because they're so much better than the reality under the earth -- CS Lewis himself, before he became a Christian, said "Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores." Even as an atheist, he wanted to believe, because not believing was so hopeless, so boring.

I also love SC because: the kids mess everything up, and yet they pull off their quest in the end! This has such a great spiritual lesson, because we are forever messing up on the tasks Christ assigned us (love your neighbor as yourself, pray without ceasing, watch for My coming, etc.) and yet He manages to bring us through in spite of ourselves.

In Mere Christianity, Lewis said God is not so much concerned with our actions, as that we become a certain kind of people, with a will to do the right thing, you know, even when we don't do it. We see that very clearly in SC, as the children's actions lead them time and again into terrible fixes -- but their hearts were in the right place, and Aslan rescues them, despite their failures.

A very nice lesson for us.

[Emperor of the East]

Jadis and the Green witch are similar in some ways and different in other. The Green witch doesn't have the physical toughness and strenght of Jadis. They are both evil. Is it possible that their connecting is the Northern Witches or that the Green Witch escaped from Charn before the final war. In the Magician's Nephew Digory and Polly went to a room of images in charn. It could be that the Green witch is one of the slightly earlier images. I get this idea because while still being evil the Green witch seems a little more humane.

[Lucy the Marshwiggle]

The Silver Chair is my favorite book out of The Chronicles of Narnia.