Terebinthia

Lila

Lila

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I was looking at a Narnia map, and I saw an island called Terebinthia. I was just wondering if anyone knew if Terabithia, the new fantasy world that everyone is into, could be somehow related. Maybe it's just a coincedince (sp?).
 
It's just a coincidence. Like many fantasy authors will think of similar names for places in their world. I know of a book called Rohan, and it has nothing to do with Middle-Earth at all.
 
I think I read somewhere that the author of "Bridge to Terabithia" was a hard-core Narnia fan, thus naming it after the Island Terebinthia. And I think she does give Lewis credit.
 
Katherine Paterson was a fan of CoN. In the book, she mentioned that Terabithia was a Narnia-like magical country, Leslie let Jess read her CoN collection so he could learn about how to live and rule a country such as Narnia, and even threw in Aslan's name during the Easter discussion between Maybelle, Jess, and Leslie.

But in all of that, Ms. Paterson mentioned that she thought she had made up the name Terabithia, forgetting that there was an island called Terabinthia in CoN. And to her own credit, Terabinthia is not in any way prominent, appearing in only one book, "Voyage" and even then, it was not a major port of call.

MrBob
 
MrBob said:
Katherine Paterson was a fan of CoN. In the book, she mentioned that Terabithia was a Narnia-like magical country, Leslie let Jess read her CoN collection so he could learn about how to live and rule a country such as Narnia, and even threw in Aslan's name during the Easter discussion between Maybelle, Jess, and Leslie.

But in all of that, Ms. Paterson mentioned that she thought she had made up the name Terabithia, forgetting that there was an island called Terabinthia in CoN. And to her own credit, Terabinthia is not in any way prominent, appearing in only one book, "Voyage" and even then, it was not a major port of call.

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It was mentioned in Caspian also, near the end, I read it and figured it was just a coincidence but then in voyage it's mentioned again. It fills my heart full of nerdy happiness to know there's a nod to the CoN in bridge to teribinthia..
 
Welcome aboard, Sugapiehnybn. Your username, as rendered, has so many consonants, it could have come from the Welsh language!

And speaking of things Celtic: when Stephen Lawhead wrote his Arthurian series, he gave a similar nod to Mister Lewis' hints (in "That Hideous Strength") about Merlin's ties to Middle-Earth. Numenor being sort of Atlantis, Mister Lawhead had his Merlin be an Atlantean.
 
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