The Silver Chair

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Fantasy Novels: C.S. Lewis: The Silver Chair

By Duke of Earl Grey on Friday, August 17, 2001 - 9:21 pm:

The height of those crazy talking mice just keeps increasing. In Prince Caspian they're "well over a foot" (at least Reepicheep is). In Dawn Treader they're "about two feet" (at least Reepicheep is, though the "well over a foot" he was in the last book was a funny way of saying "about two feet"). In this book, the mice are now "over two feet high". Just pick a nice height and stick with it, Mr. Lewis...


By constanze on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 4:15 am:

Do we know how old these respective mice were? :)


By Norman Buchwald (Norm) on Monday, August 31, 2009 - 2:50 pm:

If the White Witch spoke the truth in LWW that she never had a child, how did the Lady in the Green Kirtle come into being if Glimfeather is correct and she is related somehow?


By Gordon Lawyer (Glawyer) on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 6:17 am:

A cousin perhaps?

Or Glimfeather could just be full of it.


By TomM, RM Moderator (Tom_m) on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 11:26 pm:

Apparently (according to The Magician's Nephew), Jadis (the White Witch) was the last of her line. Even more telling, at the time Diggory found her world and allowed her to escape into Narnia, no one else at all was alive in that world, so even the claim is that the Lady in the Green Kirtle was only metaphorically related in the sense that she also came from the same world seems precluded.

However, it was assumed by most Narnians that the WW was native to Narnia, and a pedigree was established for her (See LWW). If the LGK had a similar pedigree (real or imputed), it might be assumed they were related.


By Andrew Gilbertson (Zarm_rkeeg) on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 5:46 am:

Also, Norm, that's a pretty big 'if' - the Witch was lying through her teeth in everything else since then- so who's to say she didn't foster some offspring in between MN and LWW? :-)

I personally don't think they're related- that it was just a false assumption- but I don't think Jadis' statement, given her relative honesty levels, would preclude that. More of... difficulty imagining Jadis taking ANYONE for a consort! :-)


By Norman Buchwald (Norm) on Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 5:28 pm:

The Silver Chair will now be a full feature film (and hopefully may continue the possibility that all seven may be done!)


By Norman Buchwald (Norm) on Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 5:28 pm:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/the-chronicles-of-narnia-will-return-to-theaters-with-the-silver-chair


By Anonymous on Friday, August 12, 2016 - 5:24 am:

Jill Pole is my underrated favourite and I will decimate anyone who mucks about with her.


By AWhite (Inblackestnight) on Friday, August 12, 2016 - 8:57 am:

According to the Narnia wiki, this movie has been in the works for a while, and if memory serves it was slated for release last year. Oh well, better late than never...

Thanks for the reminder Norm!


By Natalie RD QL (Rdnat) on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - 3:45 am:

For all he was flawed, as is any human, CS Lewis used Experiment House in the Silver Chair to state several decades before the rest of the world that bullying is NOT character development for the person being bullied. Compare with Blyton who uses her self-insert character in Malory Towers to justify bullying unpopular students into conforming to the norms.


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