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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.)

Comments

[snacky]

Huh. I actually didn't think that Tirian summoned Jill and Eustace, exactly. He saw them all in a dream, but Jill and Eustace were killed in the train crash and that's how they ended up in Narnia. I'm probably wrong, but that's how it read to me. :) Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't know if that's what happened - would they have been killed in England and then killed again in Narnia? Maybe Aslan pulled them off the train just as the crash started, so the rest were killed and Jill and Eustace were sent to Narnia to be with Tirian.

And I don't think that the actual ages mattered - it was the fact that Aslan had never told Jill and Eustace that they were too old and couldn't come back, which made them try with the rings.