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[bedlamsbard]

Okay, ducks, riddle me this: 1940, the Pevensies enter Narnia. Lucy's what, ten? And Peter, five years older, is fifteen. 1941, time two, Peter and Susan are too old at approximately sixteen and fifteen. 1942, time three, Edmund and Lucy are too old at fourteen and thirteen, Eustace is, like, twelve or eleven? 1943, Eustace and Jill are around twelve or thirteen? 1949: Peter's twenty-four, Susan's twenty-three, Edmund's twenty-one, Lucy's nineteen, and Eustace and Jill are seventeen or eighteen and the only ones still in school.

And they're not too old?

Aslan is very active throughout VotDT and SC, after having relatively minimal presence throughout LWW and PC. (Excuse me while I randomly combine bookverse and movieverse. It's a thing. Also ignore how fucked my ages probably are. Again.) And again, ye olde Aslan Conspiracy Theory. He did not bring them through in LWW, he did not bring them through in PC, he did bring them through in VotDT and he definitely did bring them through in SC. And yet in LB, Tirian summons them. Aslan did not bring them through. Tirian does. And -- Narnia?

And there's that whole train crash thing. Whatever. Irrelevant.

OH LEWIS WHAT NOW?

(Yes. I think about these things all the friggin' time.)

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[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

The timeline makes my head hurt, as does the different ages at which everybody becomes "too old" to return to Narnia. I was much happier before I discovered it existed, when I just figured that C S Lewis couldn't count, and made up my own timeline based on clues like who was still at school when, the fact that Prince Caspian suggests that the war is over (even if that contradicts the implied Blitz of LWW the previous year), and sundry other odds and ends.

It skewed everyone much older (I had Lucy going through a kind of middle school system so that she went to boarding school for the first time at the age of thirteen and Peter's exam he was studying for in Dawn Treader being his Higher School Certificate), and I rather liked it that way.