The Rings!!!
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Animus Wyrmis
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My assumption would be that any belongings that could be identified as theirs would go to the next-of-kin (probably Susan for her parents and siblings; who knows for the Professor and Aunt Polly, and obviously Eustace and Jill had their parents). If there were bodies left, and the rings were still in Peter's pocket, then they'd probably be given to Susan.
Sven-El
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I'd agree also that Susan would ahve been given the rinsg when she went to ID the bodies of her parents and brothers and sister.
IF it is teh case that she gained the rings, does any one wonder if she ever tried to use them?
MrBob
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Or it could be that the rings fell out of the pocket and were picke up by an police officer or someone else involved in the clean-up. At some point, they probably would have been handled with bare hands before they got to Susan.
If that was not the case and they were found in Peter's and/or Edmund's pockets, then Susan would probably have recognized them by their description. She more than likely would have heard the Professor tell his story before she completely stopped believing. I almost wonder if he didn't tell the kids his adventure when they finished telling him theirs. They were at his house for a while.
MrBob
If that was not the case and they were found in Peter's and/or Edmund's pockets, then Susan would probably have recognized them by their description. She more than likely would have heard the Professor tell his story before she completely stopped believing. I almost wonder if he didn't tell the kids his adventure when they finished telling him theirs. They were at his house for a while.
MrBob
If people investigating the crash found the rings and handled them with their bare hands (especially the yellow ones), do you think they are still asleep in The Wood Between The Worlds?
Animus Wyrmis
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If anyone touched them without gloves I can't imagine they'd have had the luck to bring a green ring with them--so yeah, probably still asleep (and wouldn't that be awkward!). (I don't actually know what protocol around 1950 would be for picking up things at a railway crash--does anyone know? Would the police officers wear gloves?)
I've actually written Susan getting the rings a couple times, but I've never written her putting them on--in one she weights them down and throws them into the ocean, and in the other she puts them in the very back of her closet, where they stay until her daughter starts snooping around. I suppose I could see her putting them on to prove to herself that it was all a game, though...
PS Lava--I feel really off-kilter now!
I've actually written Susan getting the rings a couple times, but I've never written her putting them on--in one she weights them down and throws them into the ocean, and in the other she puts them in the very back of her closet, where they stay until her daughter starts snooping around. I suppose I could see her putting them on to prove to herself that it was all a game, though...
PS Lava--I feel really off-kilter now!
this is a very interesting concept. in my fanfic, i deal with the yellow rings from the guinea pigs in the wood between the worlds but it would be fun if ya guys wrote about Susan and the rings...
Animus Wyrmis
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I'd love to hear it, if you've the time; post-LB theories are my favorites.
(And good luck with school--we've just started exams here, it's awful; I totally sympathize.)
MRW
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I read a quote from Lewis somewhere that said Susan's journey wasn't finished, and that he thought she eventually found her way back to Narnia. Assuming the rings were returned to her with no mishaps, I can see how they could be the start of her journey back. Of course, Narnia wouldn't be accessible from the Wood any longer (since it was destroyed, and thus its pool of water would be gone), but it would be enough to prove to her that she hadn't pretended it all.
However, precisely because Narnia would have disappeared, I can see how trying to go back and failing might, at first, make her angrier.
However, precisely because Narnia would have disappeared, I can see how trying to go back and failing might, at first, make her angrier.
Animus Wyrmis
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Lewis wrote, "The books don't tell us what happened to Susan. She is left alive in this world at the end, having by then turned into a rather silly, conceited young woman. But there's plenty of time for her to mend and perhaps she will get to Aslan's country in the end... her own way." (From C.S. Lewis’s Letters to Children, 22 January 1957, to Martin) And I could have sworn he said something else, too, but Google is surprisingly useless at searching for "susan pevensie" "quotes" "cs lewis". :/
I don't think I could ever see her voluntarily putting the rings on to go off and seek out Narnia/her siblings, but I could definitely see her doing it to prove they don't work. And, uh, that working about as well as you'd expect.
(That said, I could almost buy a fic in which the Narnia pool still exists, because the timing seems to work differently with the rings. And that would just be hilariously cracky.)
I don't think I could ever see her voluntarily putting the rings on to go off and seek out Narnia/her siblings, but I could definitely see her doing it to prove they don't work. And, uh, that working about as well as you'd expect.
(That said, I could almost buy a fic in which the Narnia pool still exists, because the timing seems to work differently with the rings. And that would just be hilariously cracky.)
~Lava~
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I posted this forever ago, it is just the plot line of a short story that I think I will write over Christmas break (which, for me, starts next Thursday after 5 pm CST):
Susan (dressed in black) goes to the police station to collect her family's personal effects. Very little is left but she has the contents of the boys' pockets, a little bag with Lucy's journal, as well some of her parents things, she is quite numb by the thought of them being dead but she spends the afternoon going through their stuff. By and by she gets to the rings in the one of the boys' pockets (probably Peter's). She vaguely remembers that there was something supposedly spectacular about the rings but completely forgets what. They are very pretty though so while carefully hugging Lucy's Journal which she had located a while back she puts her hand in the pocket to try on one of the rings. The bedroom that she was sitting in fades away and she is standing in the Wood Between the Worlds. Near her are two depressions that were once ponds and also the pond that she just came out of. She sits there in the calm and decides to read Lucy's Journal which has the accounts of all of the adventures in Narnia save the one that just started. As she reads a ginger-colored cat starts playing with her side, eventually she comes to the part where she finds that none were going to Narnia anymore; she finds Lucy's struggles to get over the fact that she could no longer be with Aslan in person and then reads through where Lucy finds the truth to be that Aslan was Jesus and he is always with her. Finally she finishes the book with a better understanding of her sister and a little ashamed of the part she played in making her sister's transition from being a Narnian Queen to being an ordinary English woman difficult. Then she notices the tawny cat that she has been unconscienciously petting this whole time. The cat is purring and she just wants to hug it. She eventually leaves and goes back to England and picks up her life but she always goes back to the calm place that we know as the Wood between the Worlds as a place of solace and always the cat is with her when she is there. Gradually she needs it or her heart is not at peace during the week. She starts having vivid memories flood back into her mind about her adventures in Narnia helped along by Lucy's Journal and those of her brothers which she found in their rooms. She grows to realize how silly she has been (especially when she reads Peter's journal and finds how bothered and worried he was about her) and starts trying to foster really meaningful practices in her life. One day after several years of this weekly routine, she goes to the Wood Between the World and instead of her small feline companion there is Aslan standing in all his glory and he takes her to his world.
):Susan (dressed in black) goes to the police station to collect her family's personal effects. Very little is left but she has the contents of the boys' pockets, a little bag with Lucy's journal, as well some of her parents things, she is quite numb by the thought of them being dead but she spends the afternoon going through their stuff. By and by she gets to the rings in the one of the boys' pockets (probably Peter's). She vaguely remembers that there was something supposedly spectacular about the rings but completely forgets what. They are very pretty though so while carefully hugging Lucy's Journal which she had located a while back she puts her hand in the pocket to try on one of the rings. The bedroom that she was sitting in fades away and she is standing in the Wood Between the Worlds. Near her are two depressions that were once ponds and also the pond that she just came out of. She sits there in the calm and decides to read Lucy's Journal which has the accounts of all of the adventures in Narnia save the one that just started. As she reads a ginger-colored cat starts playing with her side, eventually she comes to the part where she finds that none were going to Narnia anymore; she finds Lucy's struggles to get over the fact that she could no longer be with Aslan in person and then reads through where Lucy finds the truth to be that Aslan was Jesus and he is always with her. Finally she finishes the book with a better understanding of her sister and a little ashamed of the part she played in making her sister's transition from being a Narnian Queen to being an ordinary English woman difficult. Then she notices the tawny cat that she has been unconscienciously petting this whole time. The cat is purring and she just wants to hug it. She eventually leaves and goes back to England and picks up her life but she always goes back to the calm place that we know as the Wood between the Worlds as a place of solace and always the cat is with her when she is there. Gradually she needs it or her heart is not at peace during the week. She starts having vivid memories flood back into her mind about her adventures in Narnia helped along by Lucy's Journal and those of her brothers which she found in their rooms. She grows to realize how silly she has been (especially when she reads Peter's journal and finds how bothered and worried he was about her) and starts trying to foster really meaningful practices in her life. One day after several years of this weekly routine, she goes to the Wood Between the World and instead of her small feline companion there is Aslan standing in all his glory and he takes her to his world.
wow this would make an amazingly profound and interesting story. write please, lava!!!I posted this forever ago, it is just the plot line of a short story that I think I will write over Christmas break (which, for me, starts next Thursday after 5 pm CST
Susan (dressed in black) goes to the police station to collect her family's personal effects. Very little is left but she has the contents of the boys' pockets, a little bag with Lucy's journal, as well some of her parents things, she is quite numb by the thought of them being dead but she spends the afternoon going through their stuff. By and by she gets to the rings in the one of the boys' pockets (probably Peter's). She vaguely remembers that there was something supposedly spectacular about the rings but completely forgets what. They are very pretty though so while carefully hugging Lucy's Journal which she had located a while back she puts her hand in the pocket to try on one of the rings. The bedroom that she was sitting in fades away and she is standing in the Wood Between the Worlds. Near her are two depressions that were once ponds and also the pond that she just came out of. She sits there in the calm and decides to read Lucy's Journal which has the accounts of all of the adventures in Narnia save the one that just started. As she reads a ginger-colored cat starts playing with her side, eventually she comes to the part where she finds that none were going to Narnia anymore; she finds Lucy's struggles to get over the fact that she could no longer be with Aslan in person and then reads through where Lucy finds the truth to be that Aslan was Jesus and he is always with her. Finally she finishes the book with a better understanding of her sister and a little ashamed of the part she played in making her sister's transition from being a Narnian Queen to being an ordinary English woman difficult. Then she notices the tawny cat that she has been unconscienciously petting this whole time. The cat is purring and she just wants to hug it. She eventually leaves and goes back to England and picks up her life but she always goes back to the calm place that we know as the Wood between the Worlds as a place of solace and always the cat is with her when she is there. Gradually she needs it or her heart is not at peace during the week. She starts having vivid memories flood back into her mind about her adventures in Narnia helped along by Lucy's Journal and those of her brothers which she found in their rooms. She grows to realize how silly she has been (especially when she reads Peter's journal and finds how bothered and worried he was about her) and starts trying to foster really meaningful practices in her life. One day after several years of this weekly routine, she goes to the Wood Between the World and instead of her small feline companion there is Aslan standing in all his glory and he takes her to his world.
~Lava~
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TheSilverChair
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I think the only logical answer is that they were destroyed, because if the police touched them they would be transported.
Animus Wyrmis
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Not if they were wearing gloves.
Mozart the Meerkitten
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Maybe Aslan never let anybody find them and took them away from the boy's pockets before anyone could find them. The more likely thing though would be that Susan foudn them, that would explain how she'd ever get back to Narnia.
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Wow! Beautifully done --- Great insights
Thank you for posting in spite of finals, Lava
Wow! Beautifully done --- Great insights
Thank you for posting in spite of finals, Lava
Peepiceek
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Surely Peter would have had the rings in a bag of some sort, not loose in his pockets. I this case, the police would have just returned the bag to Susan with the rings inside. There was nothing suspicious about the deaths, so no reason for the police to go poking around in the bag.
Peeps