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Benisse Interesting suggestions. But the answer I am looking for, the three that are connected are the only ones in the Chronicles that I could have chosen, and the odd one out is also I think the only one I could have chosen. I will say that it is to do with the conditions once they arrived...

Yes, #61 the duchess was the odd one out as the other three are dukes. A perfect answer on #68! :)

To save you trawling back through, this is the set of puzzles that have not yet been solved: #44. (a) “Mustard, please.” (b) “S-s-s-h, less noise.” (c) “The Elephant is quite right.” (d) “Well, I’ll take the offer.” #46. (a) Uncle Andrew (b) The Hermit of the Southern Marches (c) Lucy (d)...

I was reunited with my answers, and I was correct. (d) refers to a vivid dream that Lucy had tried to forget, but at the Dark Island it came back to her. Peeps

It is a long time since I made these - I can't actually remember the answer to this for certain, and my answer sheet is on my other computer from which I am currently separated. You are definitely on the right lines about remembering and forgetting. I can't remember (ironically!) exactly what...

Aravis is referred to as 'Lady Aravis' when Cor comes to see her and the horses at the Hermit's lodge. That is the Aravis connection. Peeps

Haha, now you're looking for too much. The duchess is the odd one out, as the other three are dukes :) Ok, we're getting close with the other one. So, you are correct that Polly is referred to as Lady Polly in TLB, and Jadis as the White Lady in PC. We have already seen Lady Liln. So, we need...

Good work. Yes, Edmund was made Duke of Lantern Waste. You're tantalisingly close to the right answer, but you need a little more work on (c). Hint: it isn't Ramandu. You are getting closer on the other one too. My hint would be, what do the Narnians refer to Digory and Polly as in TLB? And...

Tirian I'm glad you're still wrestling with my quizzes :-) These ones are both pretty tricky (and you are nowhere close with your guesses yet, sorry), so I will give you some clues. "One of the last people in England with fairy blood" does NOT refer to Mrs Lefay. Uncle Andrew mentions some...

I think one of my favourite stories is when David could have taken Saul's life (twice, I think) but instead just took a token (Saul's spear on one occasion and a corner of his cloak on the other) - showing that David was loyal to Saul even though Saul was persecuting him unjustly and even though...

If Lewis didn't give the characters names, I would incline against it unless it's really essential for the story. The names should fit the pattern Lewis has already created, though. For example, Bree and Hwin are horsey sounds, and so their spouses should also have horsey names. Caspian's nurse...

When I was younger I read in chronological order, since that is how they are numbered in the box-set 1-7. But these days I prefer publication order. I am current reading through them to my girlfriend, who has never read them, and we are going through them in publication order. One thing I do...

It's just a descriptive thing - a thing people from cultures (such as the UK) that don't eat a lot of those notice about people from countries that do. I do think that Lewis's descriptions often reflect the time he was living and some of them might not be appropriate if expressed in the same...

Roonwit was already taken. Peepiceek was my next favourite...

Yes, and at the end of VDT they seem to reach the edge of that dome where the sky actually comes down to meet the ground. However, with regard to stars and constellations, Lewis seems inconsistent. In the classical medieval picture, the stars move east to west, as does the sun, but Lewis says in...

I would love to know more about the wider geography of the Narnian world. Is it really flat? What lies to the extreme north, south and west? (The Last Battle does mention a western sea and islands, but gives no details.) I'd also like to know how the stars move through the night and through the...

Actually, historically it has been pretty common for people in the ruling class to disbelieve in the official religion, even while encouraging the lower classes to believe it fervently. Makes them easier to control. And if one has made it to the top by (what one believes to be) one's own effort...

and identify and explain the problems with the analogies we are using!

Yes, I do think that all three persons are fully capable. Gregory of Nazianzus (rejecting as tritheism a suggestion that the Trinity was like Peter, James and John who are distinct but all human, just as the Father, Son and Spirit are distinct but all divine) suggested that it was not so much...

Nice :) I hadn't seen this before. Analogies for the Trinity are always dangerous. The egg analogy, for example, risks breaking God into three separate (and separable) parts, none of which are God in themselves, but in fact God cannot be separated in this way. The states of matter analogy risks...