Prince Caspian - Does he have a first name?

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I think that The Conqueror is the closest we can get to a surname for the line of Caspians. Like Aravis, she uses "Tarkheena" as her last name, but it's her title. It's unlikely that the line of Caspians EVER had surnames, considering the were descended from pirates, and pirates don't often have/use surnames.
 
In the book, Mrs. Pevensie never had a first name.
In the movie, they used Georgie's mom's name, Helen.
It's a nice touch because not only is it Georgie's name, but it is also the first Queen of Narnia's name.

It wasn't CS Lewis who gave the name, but it was very in keeping with Narnia, and a nice tribute. :)

It seems to me that in Narnia, if you were born there, nobody had first names and that those who were born in England did.

There are different traditions in Narnia, and perhaps the whole last name thing was apart of them.
If you notice, while in Narnia the four Pevensies aren't referred to by their last names by anybody there...they are King Peter, Queen Susan, King Edmund and Queen Lucy.

Interestingly, King Frank wasn't referred to as King Frank until he became the first King of Narnia. He was simply called the Cabby. Also, Frank seems to refer to his wife as "Nellie" though perhaps that could be a nickname from Helen.

This is the first reference to Queen Helen:

"If you please sir," said Queen Helen (for that is what Nellie the cabman's wife now was)...

It seems to be in tradition of Narnia.
Tumnus was only ever Tumnus the Faun.
The beavers were Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, but that is like being called Mr. Human and Mrs. Human - it wasn't their names.
 
I don't think Caspian has a last name-- or even if he does, they never used it :) he was known as a bunch of different things, like Caspian the 10th and Caspian the Sea-Farer, wasn't he? So he doesn't really have a last name.
 
jesuschick said:
That is wierd.
Ramandu's daughter does not have a name at all!!!!
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Yeah. Even though she wasn't in the book VOTDT a lot, she did become Caspian's wife. So I think she should have at least had a first name.
 
Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe CS Lewis didn't give Caspian a last name? Meaning, Lewis just refered to him as "Caspian"? He never bothered to make one? It's not important, maybe.
Or he did have one, but Lewis just didn't put it in the books, but it's in his notes?
Also - this should go in the section for the books.
 
"The Tenth" is more a chronological distinguisher like "Jr." is. Probably the closest thing Caspian had to a last name is "the Seafarer," since nicknames like that were actually how the English people wound up with last names eventually. But humans in the Narnian world don't seem to have regular last names, except in Calormen, which makes sense since the Narnian world is medieval in most ways, and the medieval people in our world often didn't have regular last names either.
 
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