#but yeah kind of wondering why narnia's friend archenland didn't try to defend it from the telmarines when they showed up then?? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

carewyncromwell · 3 years ago

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I’ve had this Narnia idea bopping around in my head for almost a week now, and now I’m torn between actually making it an AU concept where all the “kids from our world” (Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy, and such) are all MC’s (I mean seriously, TELL ME the O’Donnell quads wouldn’t be the perfect choice to fill the role of the Pevensies?? @unfortunate-arrow), with the Narnians all being characters from the game (Talbott or Orion would be a boss-ass Caspian X, just sayin’)...or just going “f*** it” and writing something quasi-in the Narnian universe while still being an original story, because damn it, Clives Staples Lewis, did you have to leave so many bloody question-marks when it came to your world building??

#seriously #what the hell was up with terebinthia in voyage of the dawn treader??#caspian's warded off because he was warned there was a plague and then out of nowhere their crew's attacked by pirates??#and we literally learn *nothing else* about terebinthia in the entire rest of the book series #the island's on the official map and everything but we know NOTHING about them #then of course there's archenland which we do see material for and learn some stuff about #but honestly it just seems like they're pointedly ignoring all the weird s*** going on with their neighbors to the north #and this is while they were supposedly considered part of the narnian empire #I mean dang the nation's founder was descended from the first king and queen of narnia #we learn caspian x reforged the friendship between the two nations I guess??#but yeah kind of wondering why narnia's friend archenland didn't try to defend it from the telmarines when they showed up then??#don't get me wrong I love narnia despite its heavy-handed christian moralizing #but one of lewis's failings in my opinion is not developing his concepts more #not just his world-building but also his characters #the best developed characters often are the side characters like tumnus #while the main characters are more often archetypes more than fully fleshed-out people #again I still love the books!#but it's one point I will give andrew adamson in his film adaptations -- he gave each character an arc and definitive personality #and yes I have some problems with prince caspian and dawn treader's adaptations too but even so #personal #opinion #blah blah blah #narnia au #admittedly as well whatever I'd do in narnia would fix some of the questionable sexist racist and fundamentalist Christian aspects too #if nothing else then because I was raised by a non-practicing methodist and an athiest :I #though seriously tory do you REALLY need another AU plot bunny bouncing around in your head?#no -- no you don't #damn it

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