Tirian was rubbish!

One might look at the other books to understand the constant "falling away" of the Narnians. Quite a representation of the Bible that constantly showed the Jews falling away from God.

When the children arrive in LWW, many doubt. That may explain why so many turned to the White Witch. That Aslan walked among the Narnians helped reinforce their belief. While Christ walked the Earth, so many gathered around him. After his death and resurrection, it cannot be stated that everyone who followed him remained loyal to him.

In Caspian's day, just two hundred years after Aslan's saved Narnia, the Narnians had fallen away.

And so it goes on, like I stated in the first paragraph.

Perhaps so many of us feel that Christians have not fallen away. Yet, a scant one hundred years after the resurrection, Christians were killing Christians over "correct" doctrine. Witness Paul's letters to the different churches to correct their individual wanderings. And, we Christians have divided ourselves over doctrinal and personal issues to the point that, in my opinion, we have lost the fullness of the Light. Let me repeat that: the fullness of the Light.

IN the last battle prophesied in the End Times, we should not be surprised if many people we know and love turn away because the End Times does not pan out the way each of us individually believes will happen.

I feel Tirian is in a dilemma. He feels that Aslan, like a deus ex machina, will come and straighten everything out. He underestimates the strength of Narnians, that once shown the truth they will turn out en masse behind him and the banner of Aslan. The prophets Elijah and Elisha along with the great champions like Samson had to feel helpless at times as well, as the Jews would not align themselves to God even after He showed His power and majesty.

I cannot fault Tirian for his humaness: he is truly like the rest of us, trying to do good when some actions may just lead to doing something harmful to others. The positive part that comes through is that he never lost faith right up to and through the end.
 
Lovin' the the lengthy posts guys! ;-)
Wallis' post, (howyadoin ain't seen you for a while guy?!) - make a great deal of sense and to take the thread back from who we all fancy for a bit (i'm as guilty as the next I know), I think Tirian's fear of the known and uinknown has a lot to do with how he behaves. To be put in a situation where you feel as though you have no where to turn and all around seems so unlike it should be, she uses his fear and also the fear of his enemies to strive on lead the faithful NArnians out of the the other side of there troubles..he's not rubbish at all!
 
I really liked him b/c he did his best with the time and situations he was given. Out of all of the reading I've done, He's been one of the best examples of this. (Frodo too, but that was obvious b/c I practically quoted JRRT.)
 
Tirian is the best character in narnia!! although i thought it was mean when he was gonna kill puzzle when he didnt let puzzle defend himself for bieng in a lion skin
 
As I've said before, how was Tirian suposed to know that Puzzle wasn't as sneaky and evil as Shift? He had no idea, he just new the there was a donkey sitting there pretending to be Aslan and that's not cool. lol
 
Me too! All the cards were stacked against him, but he remained true! Moreover, he got the better of his enemies, Shift, and Rishda Tarkaan, who both suffered appalling fates, and Ginger came off very badly too.
 
Tirian was such a he-man that we named one of our children after him. However, since we couldn't do that to a guy, we slightly feminized the name (Tirienne) and used that. She's a wonderful daughter!
 
The story does make you wonder why Tirian was lazing around with Jewel and paying no attention to what was happening to Narnia -- it appears the Calormenes had quite infiltrated the country, and Tirian never noticed. Why wasn't he more aware of what was happening?
 
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