Which caused the other: the end of Narnia or the death of the Friends of Narnia?

Laurel

Laurel

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When I read The Last Battle, I always assumed without really thinking about it that the Friends of Narnia all died in that train wreck because Narnia was ending, and they were all a part of Narnia. However, I recently read a post on here where it sounded like the person who wrote it assumed that Narnia ended because the Friends of Narnia all died and there was no one who believed in Narnia anymore. I know this is one of those questions that can't really be answered, but what do you think? Did the deaths of the Friends of Narnia cause Narnia to end, or did the Friends of Narnia die because Narnia ended?
 
Narnia did not end because the Friends of Narnia died. Anyone who thinks like that is assuming that Aslan was powerless to find other people to become friends of Narnia. Aslan could surely have found others. In fact, IF the death of the friends of Narnia could cause the death of it, and it was not time for Narnia to end, I am sure Aslan would have given the friends a longer life. Maybe we could have had a completely different story altogether. Narnia ended because "all worlds come to and end" and it was it's time.
 
Plus Narnia had already started ending (weird combination of words) before the Friends of Narnia died. Remember, they were eating together and saw Trinian, and Narnia was pretty much done for anyway before they died.
But mostly I agree with the others, that all worlds must come to an end and this was Narnia's end. The beauty is in being able to see an end and a true beginning play out in the Last Battle.
 
Remember, too, that Narnian and earth time run differently, so perhaps whatever time the Friends died on earth would have coincided with the end of Narnia. Remember that the pirates, who presumably lived before Digory and Polly on earth, entered the Narnian world after them according to Narnian time!

Peeps
 
Peepiceek said:
Remember, too, that Narnian and earth time run differently, so perhaps whatever time the Friends died on earth would have coincided with the end of Narnia. Remember that the pirates, who presumably lived before Digory and Polly on earth, entered the Narnian world after them according to Narnian time!

Peeps
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Very interesting; I hadn't noticed that! Anyway, I agree with everyone that the Friends of Narnia's deaths didn't cause Narnia to end. That would make it seem like Narnia was only a regular pretend world that wasn't "real" unless people were pretending about it, which Narnia is not!
 
It's amazing to me that anyone would conceive the idea that somehow Narnia "depended" on some people of our world to "believe" in it in order to exist. Wasn't Lewis' whole point in Nephew and Battle that Narnia began and ended at Aslan's Word? Was it not obvious that Digory and Polly - the two oldest Friends - were as surprised as anyone to find themselves in Narnia, and watched in wonder as the Creation of Narnia unfolded before their eyes?
 
The Pevensies died because of the train wreck. Pure and simple, they were fatally injured.

Peter and Edmund were too old to go back to Narnia. They would never go back "for the rest of their lives." In dying, they fulfilled that promise...they did not go back for the rest of their lives. In other words, dead as far as the Terran Earth was concerned. That act set them free of returning to Earth, the way the death of our Earthly body sets us on a journey to what lies beyond.
 
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