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Jewel09

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How old were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy when they left Narnia after they were kings and queens and during the hunt of the stag?
 
I don't know; but by the time they hunted the Stag, even the youngest of them, Lucy, had been of marriageable age for at least a short while. So Lucy must have been no younger than 17, which would put Peter in the neighborhood of 25 to 30.
 
The (much disputed) timeline says they were in Narnia for 15 years, and they were 13, 12, 10 and 8 on entry, so they would have been 28, 27, 25 and 23 on leaving.

Peeps
 
The difficulty is that nobody really knows - there aren't enough clues in the books themselves (which was perhaps deliberate on Lewis' part) and other sources are unreliable.
 
That's a really good question. But I don't know either. :rolleyes: I agree, there's not enough clues in the books to really tell. I wonder if someone ever wrote to C.S. Lewis and asked him that...? I have his book of the letters he wrote. But they mostly seem to be to friends and adults and stuff, not to the readers.
 
Well, they were there long enough for Tumnus to come into middle age. I always assumed they stayed there for about 20-30 years, but I have no proof.

MrBob
 
Wow, only a little as that? For some reason I thought they were in their forties or older, having reigned for many, many years in which to properly put their mark on the 'golden age' of Narnia. If it was only a few years, I guess they must have done a looooot of good to rule in that time.
 
If it's refered to at "the Golden age", it must be a considerable amount of time. I don't think they were OLD when they left, but they weren't young, either.

Although, it had to be long enough for them to forget, so maybe they were old. That would make sense, actually, considering their achivements (and how famous they were. You don't get famous if you're only king for ten years.)
 
In terms of forgetting, SI, the "official" timeline has the events of H&HB 14 years after ther coronation with them leaving while hunting hte white stag one year later. I find it very hard for Lucy to have completely forgotten the events of how she got into Narnia and the lamppost in one years time.

At the end of H&HB, she is telling the story of how she first came to Narnia so much more time should have passed for her and her siblings to have forgotten the story. That is why I say at least another 10-15 years after the events of H&HB.

MrBob
 
The Spanish Inquisition said:
If it's refered to at "the Golden age", it must be a considerable amount of time. I don't think they were OLD when they left, but they weren't young, either.

Although, it had to be long enough for them to forget, so maybe they were old. That would make sense, actually, considering their achivements (and how famous they were. You don't get famous if you're only king for ten years.)
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I disagree with the last bit. They defeated the White Witch and ended the Hundred Years' Winter. That's quite enough to make them famous. Henry V only reigned for nine years but is legendary. Richard III only reigned for two years and is widely remembered. JFK was president for two years and is a hero.

That it was called the Golden Age is more compelling evidence, but I think fifteen years is enough to establish a Golden Age, which may have continued for a time after they left but still been associated with them.

Peeps
 
MrBob said:
In terms of forgetting, SI, the "official" timeline has the events of H&HB 14 years after ther coronation with them leaving while hunting hte white stag one year later. I find it very hard for Lucy to have completely forgotten the events of how she got into Narnia and the lamppost in one years time.

At the end of H&HB, she is telling the story of how she first came to Narnia so much more time should have passed for her and her siblings to have forgotten the story. That is why I say at least another 10-15 years after the events of H&HB.

MrBob
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I find it hard to believe that, if she was remembering it for more than a decade and retelling it so frequently that everyone knew it, that she would have forgotten it at all, however long they stayed. I think it more likely that this is a contradiction in the books, as discussed previously (on the Hermeneutics thread, I think).

Peeps
 
Peepiceek said:
I find it hard to believe that, if she was remembering it for more than a decade and retelling it so frequently that everyone knew it, that she would have forgotten it at all, however long they stayed. I think it more likely that this is a contradiction in the books, as discussed previously (on the Hermeneutics thread, I think).

Peeps
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I agree, Lucy was not a forgetting person. If digory and polly can remember narnia for 60 years then lucy can remember for 15-30 years.
 
"I find it hard to believe that, if she was remembering it for more than a decade and retelling it so frequently that everyone knew it, that she would have forgotten it at all, however long they stayed."

I agree, too, Peep. But if I had to make sense of it, a much longer time would be more likely to at least wear away the memory. One year, we can all agree, is not long enough.

This will just have to be one of those contradictions that will never be fully settled unless we just say that Aslan caued them to gradually forget.

MrBob
 
I'm pretty sure that Peter was 13, Susan was 12, Edmund was like 10, and Lucy was 8 or 9. The golden age of narnia lasted for about 15 years which makes the children 28, 27, 25, and 23 or 24. However, LWW never says how long the children were in Narnia before they became kings and queens, so that kind of makes you think a little harder doesn't it?
 
AC

The ages you note come from the timeline (as noted previously). Howeer, many people reject the authenticity of that timeline.

Peeps
 
missionary said:
I agree, Lucy was not a forgetting person. If digory and polly can remember narnia for 60 years then lucy can remember for 15-30 years.
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That's a pretty good point.
I always imagined Peter being ten or eleven,Susan nine,edmund eight and lucy seven.
That way when they go back the next time, Peter would match Caspian's age.
Which was never told either,but being a BOY,I believe it must've been twelve.
In the middle ages that was when you were a "Boy"
 
Wowza! :eek: lol I never thought of Caspian being 12 before but it sounds about right. Sure different from in the movie though. But I'm glad Ben was older in the movie ;) lol
 
Caspian being older than in the book, by itself, would not have ruined the story, if they had not chosen to rob Peter of his status as a wiser man who became a mentor to Caspian and was RESPECTED BY Caspian.
 


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