Knowledge of the way to Earth

MrBob

MrBob

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After Jadis met Edmund, she told him how to get back to London, or as she said, the World of Men. I am wondering how she knew the way?

In MN, Narnia was created around her and when she tossed the arm of the lamppost at Aslan, it fell to the ground and grew. FF to LWW and her meeting with Edmund; she tells him that beyond the lamppost was the way to his home. How would she have known that was where he and Lucy entered Narnia? In each book, the FoN entered in different places.

My only theory that I thought about while typing this is that trees told Jadis.

MrBob
 
MrBob said:
After Jadis met Edmund, she told him how to get back to London, or as she said, the World of Men. I am wondering how she knew the way?

In MN, Narnia was created around her and when she tossed the arm of the lamppost at Aslan, it fell to the ground and grew. FF to LWW and her meeting with Edmund; she tells him that beyond the lamppost was the way to his home. How would she have known that was where he and Lucy entered Narnia? In each book, the FoN entered in different places.

My only theory that I thought about while typing this is that trees told Jadis.

MrBob
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I think her spies probably saw Lucy enter Narnia and told her. As for her telling Edmund she knew the way back to Earth, I think she was lying.:D
 
I believe she knew the way because she had entered Narnia herself from that general area. She did throw the lamppost and it grew and she threw it from when she entered there herself. So she probably figured that since the lamppost was the area from which she, Polly and Digory had entered Narnia before, it must be the area from which all travelers from other worlds came into Narnia as well.
 
Or alternatively this was something else that Lewis never successfully retrofitted. There is no one way to "the world of Men" - the children turn up in different places in PC, VDT, SC and TLB, and we can assume that the Telmarines and the Calormenes came through their various "chinks and chasms" in different places too.

You have to remember that ol' Jack seems to have pretty much made stuff up as he went along - it's not like Middle-Earth which had been thirty-odd years in the making before LotR hit the shelves. :)
 
If spies for Jadis had spotted Lucy upon her first entering Narnia, Tumnus would never have had the time to experience his change of heart that resulted in his saving Lucy. Lucy herself, unless Aslan intervened, would have been taken by the Wolves right then.
 
"I believe she knew the way because she had entered Narnia herself from that general area"

Son of Adam, Jadis never "entered" into Narnia. Narnia was formed around her. And she didn't come from the World of Men, she came from the Woods between the Worlds.

If she was lying to Edmund, Gondor, that was an extremely lucky guess.

I know this is a bit of nitpicking, but I am a nitpicker :p

MrBob
 
MrBob said:
"I believe she knew the way because she had entered Narnia herself from that general area"

Son of Adam, Jadis never "entered" into Narnia. Narnia was formed around her. And she didn't come from the World of Men, she came from the Woods between the Worlds.

MrBob
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You are right there. All the same though, it appears that although not the only place where one can cross over from another world into Narnia, it does appear that the area surrounding the lamppost is one of the main ones. For it was the area in which the Jadis entered even if it was at the time of the creation of Narnia itself. It was already a world, just not a formed one yet, the same as earth was before God initiated the 6 days of creation here. And if it was the general area in which Jadis and the others first entered into Narnia as it was being formed, she probably had the idea that since where she me Edmund was very close to where it all happened before, it was probably in the same direction that Edmund had come from.
 
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