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I didn't consider it either until I read this discussion thread. As for the cousins, Edmund was born in 1930, Lucy in 1932, Eustace in 1933 as was Jill...who's not a cousin per se. :P
 
Deeper_Wonderment said:
I didn't consider it either until I read this discussion thread. As for the cousins, Edmund was born in 1930, Lucy in 1932, Eustace in 1933 as was Jill...who's not a cousin per se. :P
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I thought Edmund was older than 10 in the movie.
 
Corin Thunder-Fist said:
You need to keep an open mind and continue to read them. While I like the Pevensie children, I feel the STORY is better in the ones that they aren't included in. Actually, I would say that my 3 favorite stories in the series...only 1 of them has the Pevensies, and they aren't even the main characters in it (HHB).

There are several new characters introduced in the other books that are worth reading about.
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Thanks. Yeah I am GOING to finish the series (im reading it in published order, that way everything is explained last) But yes, i am excited to see how everything turns out. Right now I'm like on page 50 of VDT.
 
He definitely looks older in the movies - they all do - but in the books those are their ages...and speaking of ages, do you know that Caspian is 13 when he becomes high king of Narnia? The same age Peter was? :D
 
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onlymystory said:
where did you get those birthdates?
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I have this wonderful book called "A Book of Narnians: The Lion, the Witch, and the Others." In the back it has "CS Lewis' Outline of Narnian History." Down one side of the page is Narnian time, and the other "our time." So for example, Peter was born in 1927 our time, and the corresponding Narnian year is 204, the year that "certain outlaws from Archenland fly across the southern desert and set up the new kingdom of Calormen."
 
That timeline has cropped up in other places on this forum, and has been a topic of some dispute. It's orginal source was a book called Past Watchful Dragons, written by Walter Hooper. Supposedly it's from some unpublished manuscripts that Lewis wrote which Hooper, as his "personal secretary" put together after his death. Problem is that some serious Lewis scholars have raised valid questions about Hooper's honesty and legitimacy (e.g. Hooper several times claimed to be Lewis' "longtime personal secretary", when in fact he only worked in that capacity for some weeks, and that toward the end of Lewis' life). Some have even raised the claim that Hooper was publishing some works of his own under Lewis' name (e.g. the story The Dark Tower - for further details, see The C.S. Lewis Hoax by the late Kathryn Lindskoog).

Point being that this supposed timeline contradicts some details of the Narnia stories, as well as inventing completely new things that don't seem to square with Lewis' style (e.g. the contention that the men of Telmar were at one point turned into dumb beasts en masse - not very Lewisian.) It's possible that this timeline was sketched out by Lewis himself, and we just have to deal with the fact that he wasn't consistent about his stories. But when the only source for the thing is Walter Hooper, a man whom true Lewis scholars like Sheldon Vanauken consider to be a weak reed - well, I've got my doubts.
 
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I remember feeling shocked and very sad for Susan and Peter when I first read the books when I was wee little.

But like Prince of the West said, if you read carefully in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, it really isn't as simple as they just never come back.

If you read the Last Battle I think your in for a pleasant surprise.

-Austin
 
As Reepicheepfan said, the Telmarines NEEDED to get away from where they were. They were three families of pirates stuck on an island in a cave about to be murdered by other pirates - but they ran into a cave and that is how they came to Telmar. I think every time someone goes to Narnia there is a reason - for eg. King Frank and Queen Helen came to Narnia because it needed it's first king and queen. Obviously when some get too old to go to Narnia they are told they can't return - but it's OK, because the next time Narnia needs somebody, Aslan already has a child he can call on to help. I believe that for eg. that is why Eustace comes to the Dawntreader with Edmund and Lucy, because Aslan knows that is the last time Edmund and Lucy can go, but he knows a Son of Adam and a Daughter of Eve will be needed during The Silver Chair and The Last Battle. So he lets Eustace "get to know" Narnia with his cousins, so that Eustace can help Jill "get to know" Narnia during The Silver Chair. Then, during the Last Battle, when they come there is no mucking around - no shock, they already know about Narnia, so when Narnia needs them the most they can get straight to work.

Now I'm rambling, lol. :)
 
I've only read as far as PC, so I can't speak about the later characters, but I didn't have a problem with Susan and Peter not coming back to Narnia. They were only called to Narnia to serve a specific purpose, and now that purpose had been fulfulled. I'm sure they had things to do in our world, so they wanted to come back.
 
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