The Telmarines

Prodigious1One

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Do you think that their former land on Earth was Australia? That would fit very well with the connection to England.

What do you think? In the book, it says that the island is in the Pacific Ocean. Oz is between it and the Indian Ocean, but that's close enough. Also, to the English, Australia is a world away and that fits well with the conception of this island of the Pacific.

Does anyone believe that Aslan has made sure that the Telmarines will be able to survive in their former land on Earth? I kept on asking myself that question. I imagine that all that they would need is there existing, so no worries, mate. :D
 
General Oreius said:
It's a good possibility, but I think their homeland is a Pacific island that's of considerable size.
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Yes. They were pirates and seafarers who got marooned on that island. Personally I think they lucked out with the doorway to Narnia. I'd rather be in Narnia ( um, although a Pacific Island sure sounds good now in this cold).
 
LifeMaiden said:
Yes. They were pirates and seafarers who got marooned on that island. Personally I think they lucked out with the doorway to Narnia. I'd rather be in Narnia ( um, although a Pacific Island sure sounds good now in this cold).
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Hear, hear!!! It would be good to be in Narnia right now. I can't wait to see how they're depicted in the movie or if they'll try to flush out their history on earth more clearly. They'd have to take some liberties there...but it will be cool to see.
 
They lived in Telmar. It's a land not shown on the map of Narnia, but it's mentioned in a few places, and there's also a "Pass to Telmar" in Archenland. Other than that, all we know is that it lies west of all of the other countries and was once inhabited by Calormenes who got turned into animals (horses, right?).
 
The Telmarines were pirates who sailed the South Seas. The island they came into Telmar from was conqured by them ad they killed the natives except for taking wives. The land is now uninhabited and that is where Aslan is sending them.

When they got to Telmar, it was uninhabited and they made it their home. After a while, the Telmarines invaded Narnia.

I would like to know where in the stories the Pass to Telmar is, Gen. Oreius.

MrBob
 
If you take a look at the map of Narnia and the surrounding lands, you should be able to see the words "Pass to Telmar" on the left side of the map when you look at Archenland. Other than that, the only place I can think of where it would be on a map would be the one at the beginning of The Horse and His Boy.
 
I'm new here, but I think they could have have come from some island near the Phillipines. If they are depicted as hispanics, and the spanish controlled the Phillipines for some time, couldn't they have Filipinos?
 
For the the pirates that later became the Telmarines: We know that (bookwise) they were Caucasion (VotDT- a pale figure jumping in to save them) in origin, and probably Anglo-Saxon/Celtic because of the fact that there are blondes and red-heads. We also know that they were pirates in the South Sea (also further clarified as the Pacific Ocean later in PC) Depending on the era that they came from, that would mean that they were either compatriots of Sir Francis Drake who used the Pacific Ocean as a hide out when they weren't looting Spanish ships in the Carribean (early 1500's to about the time of the sinking of the Spanish Armada, a little after it though) or they were American/English pirates who were chased out of the Carribean shortly after Blackbeard.
 
Those are good speculations.

For my part, I don't think the Spanish accents and skin tone of the Telmarines in the movie were anything more than an attempt to indicate they were alien to the land. Using black skin tone or Slavic accents could have accomplished the same thing. I think that touch was very effective, but I don't think that the filmmakers were trying to speculate about the origins of the Telmarines in our world.
 
I'm Spanish so I didn't mind the representation of "us" in Narnia ;) I was quite pleased when I heard the producers were going for a Spanish/Italian feel for the Telemarines, especially Caspian. Though, the accent...meh...At least on behalf of Barnes It didn't come off as "authentic."
 
The filmakers did leave a lot of clues towards the Telmarines day job in our world: the swords, armor, the symbols (predominately the compass) all point towards some type of sea-fearing life. That was all a really cool aspect of the Telmarines in the film.
 
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