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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

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Nine or ten is probably most likely for LWW.

The only time I have ever read the bible is two books out of it on my reading list from my dad about five or six years ago. One of them was Genesis, and the other one is the book where Jesus smites a fig tree because it has the audacity to not have any figs on it.

...look, the bible clearly never made much of an impression on me aside from the fig tree bit. *cough* Greco-Roman mythology and a little bit of Norse mythology is my biggest religious influence, which is really weird from the kid who has relative who are actual Buddhist priests.

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the smiting of a fig tree but the concept makes me giggle. There's a lot of stuff in western literature in general that is based on concepts in the Bible, saints, stuff like that.

So you're reading it from a different religious standpoint which, as noted, colors how you see the book vs. how someone like me (raised by atheists) vs. a full-time Christian would read it.

I don't comment on this stuff usually mostly because I dislike the Disney movies and because it's been about ten years since I read the books.