#Tirian
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
supernovasilence · 22 days ago
Text
As we start getting more information on the new Narnia adaptation, I see people worrying it won't stay true to C. S. Lewis's vision. Now, as a white British man writing in the 1950s, if Lewis imagined POC characters in his books, it was as
*checks notes*
nobles and royals, leaders and officers, heroes and legends, friends and love interests and protagonists.
Tumblr media
Caspian X is a main character in Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and the title character of Prince Caspian. He begins the story as a prince, and ends it taking his rightful place as "lawful King under [Peter] in Narnia both by [Peter's] gift and by the laws of the Telmarines" (Prince Caspian, chapter 13: The High King in Command). Caspian leads a war, overthrows a tyrant, and sails on a journey across the Eastern Ocean to save the lords who had been tricked into being lost at sea because they would have supported Caspian. Brave and loyal, he earns not one, but two, epithets through his actions: "Caspian the Seafarer" (The Silver Chair, chapter 12: The Queen of Underland"; the title is also used several times in The Last Battle) and "Caspian the Navigator" (The Silver Chair, chapter 16: The Healing of Harms").
He is also a Telmarine. The Great Lion himself explains what this means.
"You, Sir Caspian," said Aslan, "might have known that you could be no true King of Narnia unless, like the Kings of old, you were a son of Adam and came from the world of Adam's sons. And so you are. Many years ago in that world, in a deep sea of that world which is called the South Sea, a shipload of pirates were driven by storm on an island. And there they did as pirates would: killed the natives and took the native women for wives, and made palm wine, and drank and were drunk, and lay in the shade of the palm trees, and woke up and quarrelled, and sometimes killed one another. And in one of these frays six were put to flight by the rest and fled with their women into the centre of the island and up a mountain, and went, as they thought, into a cave to hide. But it was one of the magical places of that world, one of the chinks or chasms between that world and this. There were many chinks or chasms between worlds in old times, but they have grown rarer. This was one of the last: I do not say the last. And so they fell, or rose, or blundered, or dropped right through, and found themselves in this world, in the Land of Telmar which was then unpeopled." (Prince Caspian, chapter 15: Aslan Makes a Door in the Air)
Nowadays, we would say Caspian is Polynesian.
Tumblr media Tumblr media
The Silver Chair features "the King's son of Narnia, Rilian, the only child of Caspian, Tenth of that name" (The Silver Chair, chapter 12: The Queen of Underland"). One of the protagonists of The Last Battle is Tirian, whose "great-grandfather's great-grandfather" was Rilian. Like Caspian, they are heroes and kings, and Telmarines of Polynesian descent. Caspian and Rilian had such golden reigns that Tirian remembers them, and specifics of their stories, hundreds of years later (The Last Battle, chapter 9: What Happened That Night).
Tumblr media
Calormen is a large kingdom to the south of Narnia. While its origins are never given, both the text and the original illustrations (by Pauline Baynes, with input and approval from Lewis), clearly show it is based on the Middle East; its citizens are described as dark-skinned. Tarkheena is a Calormene title, the feminine version of Tarkaan, meaning "great lord", while Tisroc is the Calormene equivalent of king or emperor (The Horse and His Boy, chapter 1, How Shasta Set Out On His Travels).
One of the protagonists of The Horse and His Boy is "Aravis Tarkheena ... the only daughter of Kidrash Tarkaan, the son of Rishti Tarkaan, the son of Kidrash Tarkaan, the son of Ilsombreh Tisroc, the son of Ardeeb Tisroc who was descended in a right line from the god Tash. [Her] father is lord of the province of Calavar and is one who has the right of standing on his feet in his shoes before the face of the Tisroc himself (may he live for ever)" (The Horse and His Boy, chapter 3: At the Gates of Tashbaan). In the book, Aravis is brave, quick-thinking, and independent, with a strong character arc based around pride and generosity without ever losing her fierce spirit; afterwards, she marries another protagonist, Prince Cor, "and after King Lune's death they made a good King and Queen of Archenland and Ram the Great, the most famous of all the kings of Archenland, was their son" (The Horse and His Boy, chapter 15: Rabadash the Ridiculous).
Lasaraleen Tarkheena plays a supporting role in The Horse and His Boy. Aravis's friend, she is earnest, friendly, and loyal, risking herself to help Aravis even when she can't see the appeal in Aravis's chosen life. (The Horse and His Boy, chapter 7: Aravis in Tashbaan; chapter 9: Across the Desert)
Tumblr media
Emeth is a minor character in The Last Battle. A Calormene officer, he is brave, pious, and honorable; he is also courteous, well-spoken, and learned, quoting "the poets" (The Last Battle, chapter 10: Who Will Go Into the Stable; chapter 14: Night Falls on Narnia; chapter 15: Further Up and Further In).
As for other characters, there is very little in the books indicating they are of one ethnicity or another. Cor is explicitly stated to be "white and fair", because he has to be; it is a plot point (The Horse and His Boy, chapter 1: How Shasta Set Out on His Travels). Jadis is repeatedly described as very pale as a way to indicate how strange and otherworldly she looks (The Magician's Nephew, chapter 13: An Unexpected Meeting; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, chapter 3: Edmund and the Wardrobe). Many characters have minimal or no physical description. Lewis's writing style leaves a great deal to imagination; a clear image of all the characters simply cannot be formed from textual evidence alone.
What can be said is that a truly book-accurate adaptation of Narnia, as envisioned by C. S. Lewis, will have a diverse cast.
45 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media
People Of Narnia
Tirian I The Last king
63 notes · View notes
whats-in-a-sentence · 1 year ago
Text
Seven Kings and Queens stood before him, all with crowns on their heads and all in glittering clothes, but the Kings wore fine mail as well and had their swords drawn in their hands.
Tumblr media
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis
43 notes · View notes
chadlesbianjasontodd · 2 months ago
Text
celebrate YOUR post-christmas mid-hanukkah pre-newyear liminal space by reading the fanfic i have poured all my childhood feelings and adulthood thoughts about c.s. lewis' chronicles of narnia into! particularly those about mid-century british fantasy orientalism!
around the primordial tower
Desperate, he prayed to Bacchus; to Diana, god over all the wild lands of Tirian's own wild country; and finally to his distant relatives the stars. He received no sign at all: not a brush of wind, not a twinkle of light. And finally, as the rosy fingers of the false dawn began to touch the sky, he called at last upon the devil-god of the southern countries, whom he had been warned since his childhood was the source of all evils in the world.
Here, at last, he was not abandoned.
5 notes · View notes
tenth-sentence · 1 year ago
Text
He seemed to be standing in a lighted room where seven people sat round a table.
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis
21 notes · View notes
pevensiegiigi · 1 year ago
Text
On why humans in Narnia are summoned when there is trouble
Tumblr media
The title is too random, sorry
I was reading a fanfic and in the course of it I remembered something that made me think about the moment when I read "the last battle". There's a part where Tirian tells Jill and Eustace that the friends of Narnia are only called upon when the country is in terrible danger and this is where my doubt comes in, if they are supposed to be called only in emergencies. Why didn't Aslan summon the ancient monarchs when the Telmarines invaded Narnia? Why wait 1300 years to bring them back and return with them?
Tumblr media
It is understandable that some narnians would begin to doubt Aslan's existence if he left them stranded for 1,300 years at the hands of telmarinos.
It's not entirely crazy to me now that in the movie Peter himself will doubt Aslan ever came back.
Tumblr media Tumblr media
You will say, 'Caspian's birth was expected'. was it so important that Caspian was the savior? I mean, among so many telmarines, at least a few in those 1300 years must have had a noble heart.
I don't know if it was a Lewis thing or what, but I still have a doubt
38 notes · View notes
fiction-quotes · 1 year ago
Text
“So,” said Peter, “night falls on Narnia. What, Lucy! You're not crying? With Aslan ahead, and all of us here?”
“Don't try to stop me, Peter,” said Lucy, “I am sure Aslan would not. I am sure it is not wrong to mourn for Narnia. Think of all that lies dead and frozen behind that door.”
“Yes and I did hope,” said Jill, “that it might go on for ever. I knew our world couldn't. I did think Narnia might.”
“I saw it begin,” said the Lord Digory. “I did not think I would live to see it die.”
“Sirs,” said Tirian. “The ladies do well to weep. See, I do so myself. I have seen my mother's death. What world but Narnia have I ever known? It were not virtue, but great discourtesy, if we did not mourn.”
  —  The Last Battle (C. S. Lewis)
14 notes · View notes
oh-dear-so-queer · 1 year ago
Text
Tirian looked and saw the queerest and most ridiculous thing you can imagine.
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis
2 notes · View notes
tiriansrambles · 23 days ago
Text
do you guys think sam looks at joaquin and thinks about riley???
maybe when they laugh together and for a split second he sees his face in joaquin’s ???
i can imagine him being very protective of joaquin in that aspect.
think the first time joaquin gets hurt, he thinks about the day riley passed, and panics.
I think about this a lot
73 notes · View notes
violentbirds · 1 year ago
Text
Anyway I got back into starwars again and this fanfic^ by @jackdaw-kraai has been one of my faves. Vader redemption, found family, BAMF Luke, world building, & humor.
Here’s some illustrations & sketches
Tumblr media
259 notes · View notes
jackdaw-kraai · 7 months ago
Text
THE NOBLE, THE BEAUTIFUL, AND THOSE OF YOU IN THE CHEAP SEATS, LET ME SAY ONE THING
IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK
Anyway, introducing How To Write A Mythos One Tale At A Time, my new one-shot collection work! All kinds of one-shots, snippets, and shorts will find there way here whenever inspirations strikes between writing the bigger installments, so it's got a ? for a chapter indicator, but don't let that put you off. All chapters so far are self-contained and finished.
Either way, here we now have the first chapter! Zev and Tirian meet again at a nebulous time in the future, but there seems to be something of a shift in their relationship. What could it be?
64 notes · View notes
dimsilver · 1 year ago
Text
I know it has been said before but the girl + two guys trio is really unbeaten. Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Lockwood, George, and Lucy. Percy, Grover, and Annabeth. Peeta, Finnick, and Katniss.
93 notes · View notes
doverstar · 2 months ago
Note
What is your favorite Chronicles of Narnia book and why?
This is so hard. I’ll tell you my top three and then which one is my current favorite, because it is subject to change, sorry!
I love The Magician's Nephew because it's exactly what it should be. It's simple, and it sets up the perfect origin story for the idea of Narnia, other worlds, and what that should look like if you're doing a fantasy story to teach children the truth through allegory. I love the shining gold and yellow rings as transportation devices, I love how easy it is to understand the Wood Between the Worlds and how the rings work, I love that Uncle Andrew has distant familial ties to evil magic, and that's why he even knows about all of this stuff, I love the relationship between Digory and Polly, I love the housemaid (who had never had such a day before) and I love that what Jadis and Andrew meant for evil, Aslan worked out for good, using a grubby arrogant little boy who had no idea what he was dealing with. I love the parallels between Uncle Andrew and Digory, and between Jadis and Polly. And bar none, absolutely bar none, the very best part of the entire book is when Digory is desperately wanting Aslan to help save his mother's life even though he screwed everything up, and he knows he doesn't even deserve to ask, but he wants it so badly, and it's not a bad thing to want, he's so sad about the entire situation and about the hopelessness of it all, and he looks up and sees Aslan crying. Because Aslan knows. He knows better than Digory does. I have to stop reading and cry every time I read that part; never fails.
I love The Silver Chair mainly because of Eustace but also because of the Puddleglum Speech. Eustace and Peter are constantly fighting it out to be my favorite character. I love Peter because of who Peter just naturally is as a character, but I love Eustace because I've been Eustace. (I've been Edmund too, but oh boy, have I been Eustace.) I love the way Jill and Eustace are called into Narnia, and I adore Puddleglum, and I will never forget his speech when the witch is tempting them all. I will never get a tattoo, but if I did, it would say "I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia." I love Jill wrestling with keeping her mind on Aslan's instructions, especially when things get hard, and I love Puddleglum being so dismal and silly the whole book, except when it comes to the really important point in their adventure, when he turns out to be the most faithful of all of them. I love Eustace's obvious change from how he was during his first journey through Narnia, and who he is now. I love Caspian saying you can't be a ghost in your own country, because he's finally home. I love the owls, and when I can't fall asleep at night, I think about Jill's first night in Narnia in that comfy room with the fire.
I love The Last Battle because, out of everything I've ever read about the End Times, this little children's book is the only thing that makes me think and feel the way I know I'm supposed to feel about Jesus' second Advent. I'm supposed to feel the way those final chapters make you feel - when they're all finally in Aslan's Country. I'm supposed to be overjoyed at the idea of going Home and being where I belong, and stand firm even when things get scary. I'm not there yet, but The Last Battle gives me a glimpse of what it would be like to get there, and I want that! [I know it's not all theologically sound - Emeth, specifically, and his whole story is the worst. I know Lewis was thinking about Matthew 25, and I know he had some other verses he believed backed up what he was trying to say with Emeth, but the whole thing, regardless, is way too confusing even if inclusivity were the truth (it's not, from what I glean from Scripture), and it muddies waters that people really don't need further muddied. So a failure in writing, I'd say (while covering my face because what do I even know, really?). But it's helpful because it reminds me that C.S. Lewis was not perfect and he got it wrong sometimes, and made mistakes, and that's a good reminder for me and others - often, everyone treats him like a second Paul, and he wasn't, and I think he'd hate to be compared to him.] I love Eustace being brave and kicking and fighting even up to the end, when he's literally killed in Narnia (I cry every time) and I love Jill turning her head so she won't get her string wet. I love Tirian so much, and I love that we get to see the Pevensies (sans Susan) and Digory and Polly and Fledge and the Beavers and Tumnus and Reepicheep - it's such a joyful, joyful finale, even when it's all scary for a little bit and hope seems lost. It's wonderful, and I'll stand by it as a whole (even though people don't like the "Susan problem" and even though Emeth was a mistake).
But for right now, all of that said, The Silver Chair is my favorite. It's my favorite now because of how it depicts pushing on in faith even when things are hard, even when you stumble and screw up, you get back up and keep trying and when it counts, you'll be able to stand firm because when your strength fails, the Lord's never does. Love it.
Thank you, great question!
14 notes · View notes
whats-in-a-sentence · 1 year ago
Text
Then, in a moment, they were all standing up on their hind legs, laying their cool paws on his knees and giving his knees snuffly animal kisses.
Tumblr media
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis
25 notes · View notes
nomel-artz · 5 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
OC.....................moments.............
16 notes · View notes
tenth-sentence · 1 year ago
Text
He turned to look at Rishda Tarkaan, but Rishda was not looking at him.
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis
7 notes · View notes