The fate of the Rings

MrBob

MrBob

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Peter and Edmund had the four rings with them at the train station for Eustace and Jill. They, of course, never made it. The only people who had ever used them were Digory and Polly so only they knew how to use them and what to expect.

After the accident, no one alive knew what the yellow and green rings were and how dangerous they were--or Aslan's warning to Digory and Polly to bury them and let no one use them again.

So my question is what heppened to the rings? All someone has to do is touch the yellow ring and they are forever lost in the Woods Between the Worlds if they do not have the green ring.

MrBob
 
MrBob said:
Peter and Edmund had the four rings with them at the train station for Eustace and Jill. They, of course, never made it. The only people who had ever used them were Digory and Polly so only they knew how to use them and what to expect.

After the accident, no one alive knew what the yellow and green rings were and how dangerous they were--or Aslan's warning to Digory and Polly to bury them and let no one use them again.

So my question is what heppened to the rings? All someone has to do is touch the yellow ring and they are forever lost in the Woods Between the Worlds if they do not have the green ring.

MrBob
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Perhaps when the train collision occurred, ASlan made the Rings either vanish or He destroyed them without them ever being in Narnia or His Country.
 
Those rings would not be so indestructible as Sauron's Ring, so they could have simply been pulverized by tons of steel in the train wreck, with their supernatural power then dissipating much as a radio ceases to be able to transmit once it's been smashed.
 
First of all, Digory and Polly told their story to all the children so there was one person left in the world who knew how to use them. Second of all, if Aslan did not whisk them away and they were not crushed by the train, the only person who would have any reason to touch the rings bear handed would be Susan who was Peter's Next of kin and would have been given his personal effects, the others who would have dealt with them would be people who had gloves on like police and medical examiners because even back then, they would have worn them.
 
So someone should write the story how Susan comes into possession of the rings and tries to get to Narnia ... but the pool is dried up, right, because Narnia ended, the old Narnia. Would the rings get her to the New Narnia, or just to the wood between the world?
 
inkspot said:
So someone should write the story how Susan comes into possession of the rings and tries to get to Narnia ... but the pool is dried up, right, because Narnia ended, the old Narnia. Would the rings get her to the New Narnia, or just to the wood between the world?
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Good idea for someone Ink...also, in looking for the Narnia pool, provided that she didn't realize that it did dry up...what other worlds did she get into? If Aslan is in other worlds too...what did he have to say to her on that journey?

Personally I think that the rings would have been destroyed in the accident as well. Alsan made it clear at the end of MN that they weren't to be used again. I think that he would have made sure that they were destroyed.
 
The rings could survive. It is strange what does survive during a disaster like that. And it wasn't as if they were just out in the open. Peter probably had them in his pockets wrapped in a bag or something like that, very protected so that no one would accidentally touch them.

"First of all, Digory and Polly told their story to all the children so there was one person left in the world who knew how to use them."

Yes. They told the story to all the children who were there. There were seven people at the table: Diggory and Polly, Peter, Edmund, and Lucy, Jill and Eustace. Susan was not at the meeting so she would not have known about the rings. If she did come upon the rings, as the next of kin, she would have had an intersting time. There was no "New Narnia" however, there were plenty of other worlds out there.

Wardrobe, if Aslan wanted them destroyed, he would have had Diggory and Polly destroy them at the end of MN. Instead, he wanted them to be buried.

MrBob
 
I am pretty sure that the stories were well talked about by all the friends of Narnia, as a matter of fact, I think that there is a reference to them talking about Narnia together with Susan there in the Dawn Treader, I guess what I am trying to say is that the story was probably told more than once, and was probably more talked over when Susan did believe than not.
 
The only time Susan would have had a chance to hear about the rings would have been at the end of LWW after they told Prof. Kirke what happened to the lost fur coats.

After that, the only time they saw him was in The Last Battle, without Susan.

In VotDT, the only discussion of Narnia was between Lucy and Edmund while looking at the painting at Eustace's house. Neither older sibling was there.

MrBob
 
I like the idea of Susan with the rings, trying to get to Narnia. She couldn't, through the wood between the worlds, but she wasn't to know that. She might have hopped into several different worlds, looking, as Into the Wardrobe said. I think that would be cool fan fic.
 
inkspot said:
I like the idea of Susan with the rings, trying to get to Narnia. She couldn't, through the wood between the worlds, but she wasn't to know that. She might have hopped into several different worlds, looking, as Into the Wardrobe said. I think that would be cool fan fic.
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Heh. That could run and run. She could be something like the Wandering Jew, fated to wander the worlds agelessly until she rediscovered Aslan. I imagine she would be exceedingly resentful to begin with and might gradually mellow as she realized she was in a unique position to make a difference to people's lives. Yet another take on "what happened to Susan?". :)
 
I was not talking about that, the reason Eustace knew about Narnia was that he had heard all of the children talking about it when he stayed at the Pevensie's house.

There is no way to back up the statement that the Pevensies did not see the Professor more than is explicitly said in the book. I must remind you that both Digory and Polly knew Susan well enough to talk about her in the Last Battle, so there is evidence of them meeting more than just a few times after the kids left the professor's house.

Another thing about this is Lewis left it open like that for a reason, he wrote in one of his letters to a fan that there was still plenty of time for Susan to have a reversion, why wouldn't Lewis have left the "door to reversion" which is the rings open to her.
 
Lady Jean said:
Another thing about this is Lewis left it open like that for a reason, he wrote in one of his letters to a fan that there was still plenty of time for Susan to have a reversion, why wouldn't Lewis have left the "door to reversion" which is the rings open to her.
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Well, the one place the rings wouldn't get her would be Narnia. Or at any rate, the only Narnia she could possibly get to would be one that was frozen and dead, right down to the smallest bacterium; though I'd've guessed that its pond in the Wood would have dried up as Charn's did.

So if she's going to go looking for Aslan, she might as well seek him on Earth.
 
True, but there's no reason to suppose he looks any more like his Narnian self in any other world than he does on Earth. In other words, Susan could find herself no more able to recognise him in another world than she could at home.

This doesn't preclude the telling of many stories in which Susan takes a good long while to come to this conclusion, though. :)
 
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