Why is this? Susan not named as queen?

She strayed from Narnia into absolute darkness in LB. She did not believe in the goodness of Narnia and thought it as all of games. Have your opinions-this is mine.
 
Well...

I agree, I think it had to do with her, you know straying from Narnia.. something like that.. which I always foudn odd, didn't she end up dying or something?

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I wondered about that myself. I'm not entirely sure why C.S. Lewis chose not to call Susan a queen. Could be anything from Susan not believing in Narnia later in her life to something as simple as an author's perogative or even a mistake. Pick one. LOL
 
I had never noticed either. But for the theory that Lewis did it on account of her ceasing to believe in Narnia, I do not think that is true. I have heard many times here on the forum (and else where) that Lewis did not intend to write a series when he wrote the first book.Maybe he just forgot to write Queen in front of Susan's name or he did it for effect as some authors do. Another thing is maybe he did not feel that he needed to put it there.
 
Susan was never pronounced a Queen, so therefore she never WAS a queen. She gave up on Narnia and lied to herself. She stopped believing and so therefore she couldn't stop being a queen because she never was a queen.
 
~Narnia~ said:
I agree, I think it had to do with her, you know straying from Narnia.. something like that.. which I always foudn odd, didn't she end up dying or something?

***~Narnia~***
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That can`t be true because once he wrote LWW he didn`t think he would write any more Narnia books.
 
I'm going to lock this thread, as there is already a thread on this, which can be found here

iLock thread.
 
I have 3 different editions of LWW in front of me, though two were published by HarperCollins.

I think that it was the choice of the publishers to not put the queen in front of Susan the gentle. My reasoning is that the two by HarperCollins do not have the queen in that passage. But the one from MacMillian Press does use queen in that passage. All three versions have the subjects shouting 'Long live King Peter! Long live Queen Susan! Long live King Edmund! Long live Queen Lucy!' And all three versions use queens (in the plural, not the singular, meaning Susan had to have been a queen. Unless you want to tell me that Lewis forgot to mention there were actually 3 girls in the family:p.) And after Aslan pronounces them Kings and Queens he says 'Bear it well Sons of Adam. Bear it well Daughters of Eve.' Again with the plural.
 
I think this is something to ask of HarperCollins. I wonder if there was a manuscript error for them. If so, I would love to see if HC ever has it.

I have the Harper Trophy box set with the 2002 cover art with yellow circles on the bottom right side of the page announcing the LWW movie coming out in 2005. That one has the absence of "Queen." I believe the other somewhat larger PB books also have the absence of "Queen." The only one I found with "Queen" was a large HB collection. I don't recall if it was by HC or not.

SlpNarniaQueen, Susan was called Queen after that in LWW. In PC, they use "Queen Susan's Horn." In H&HB, she was referred to as Queen Susan. She was pronounced and was a Queen of Narnia.

MrBob
 
iMerged this thread with an older one on the subject. If you read the earlier posts here, you will see that in many editions she was called Queen Susan in that sentence -- it just got left out by the publisher somehow.
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I asked an online children's literature list that i am a part of the question of the missing 'Queen' and whether it existed before. One guy wrote back saying that his edition, a 1956 thrid printing by Geoffrey Bles, the original publisher (later bought out by Harper), does not have the 'Queen' in it.

This means more than likely that Lewis just wrote "Susan the Gentle".

The reason, as has been mentioned in this thread, was probably just because he didn't feel like putting Queen in front of her name. I doubt there was any hidden reasons for his decision as he was just writing this book with no plans for any future Narnian Chronicles.

MrBob
 
i don't know how is written in the italian book... now i'm at school, today i'll go see and i'ill tell tou if susan is named queen or not...!^^ i've not noticed it but one of my friend told me that in the movie (in italian) she's not named as a queen... i'll go see another time the movie too and i'll tell you!!!

bye

tiz
 
SlpNarniaQueen said:
Susan was never pronounced a Queen, so therefore she never WAS a queen. She gave up on Narnia and lied to herself. She stopped believing and so therefore she couldn't stop being a queen because she never was a queen.
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No. I disagree with you there. Susan was a Queen once in Narnia.
 
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