#glimfeather

[noybusiness]

@headspace-hotel Yes, that's a really devastating concept for the children's return in Prince Caspian.

My mother and I both always found the image of all the unexplored pools in the Wood Between the Worlds exciting.

Are you thinking of the Telmarines? The Telmarines came through a portal on an island. The Archenlanders are descended from King Frank V's second son and his followers. The Calormenes are descended from Archenlander bandits.

Yes, there are Roman gods in Narnia, like Bacchus and Silenus, not to mention all the river gods, wood gods, nymphs and fauns. C.S. Lewis considered paganism the precursor to ecstatic Christian spirituality and didn't have an issue with nature gods subordinate to Capital G God.

Yes, stars in Narnia are sentient. The protagonists meet Ramandu, a resting star, and Coriakin, a somewhat fallen star, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, as well as Ramandu's daughter, who appears to be half human since she's said to have the blood of the stars in her veins rather than to be one herself (unlike in the 2010 movie, where she's a star and named Liliandil). Ramandu's daughter marries Caspian and is the mother of Rilian; she's murdered by the Lady of the Green Kirtle's serpent form. In The Last Battle, the protagonists see all the star-people come down to earth at the end of the world.

@queen-of-carven-stone Lucy or Susan didn't almost marry a star. Are you thinking of when Lucy was forced by the Dufflepuds to go into that manor and reverse the invisibility spell cast on them (by themselves) after they were changed from regular dwarfs called Duffers into monopods by the magician Coriakin, who is a former star being punished for prideful ways by having to govern foolish subjects? There was no forced marriage aspect, though.

I'm not sure whether I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in book form first or saw the 1989 TV serial first. The 1989-1990 TV serials of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair were very faithful to the books and I recommend seeing them if you're able to, actually. Most scenes are transferred straight from the page to the screen. Great imagery, intros and music, too, very mysterious and evocative, and I can still hear the music as we speak. The same composer did the Brideshead Revisited TV serial, Geoffrey Burgon. I especially loved the winged panther and cockatrice in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor) played Puddleglum in The Silver Chair. Warwick Davis (Willow in Willow and Nikabrik in the 2008 Prince Caspian film) played Reepicheep in Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, as well as Glimfeather in The Silver Chair.

narnia has actually way too many completely devastating concepts in it that are not explored At All

[best-bird-bash]

Speaking of owls... Submit Glimfeather from Narnia !

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[tenth-sentence]

There was Glimfeather the Owl and Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, and King Rilian the Disenchanted, and his mother the Star's daughter and his great father Caspian himself.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Then an old owl, not Glimfeather, related the story.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" - C. S. Lewis

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

@stealingmyplaceinthesun GLIMFEATHER IMAGINE GLIMFEATHER DOING THIS

How owls dance to music

[demigodofhoolemere]

Reading through The Silver Chair...

- “His name unfortunately was Eustace Scrubb, but he wasn’t a bad sort.” This lovely progression from the opening line of VotDT 🥺

- Happy crying that Trumpkin is here but devastated crying that Eustace was too late to meet Caspian again. His reaction to realizing this and thinking about his old friend is way too much for me, I can’t 😭

- Also I will fight whoever stole Caspian’s son and made him live with that loss for all this time

- My other kids!!

- Oh my word, taking his son wasn’t enough, his wife had to die, too. Leave Caspian alone, he doesn’t deserve this.

- I love Glimfeather and I love Puddleglum. I happily accept my new children.

- This journey is very dark. I know Narnia can be but this feels maybe more than usual? Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of coming after the loveliness of VotDT? But between the man-eating giants and the talking stag horror and the dark misery and hopelessness of the Underland, so much of this journey is A Lot to take in.

- I KNEW IT. I KNEW THE KNIGHT WAS GOING TO BE A KIDNAPPED AND SILENCED RILIAN. I KNEW IT WHEN HE FIRST SHOWED UP WITH THE WOMAN AND I BECAME MORE AND MORE SURE OF IT WITH EVERY PASSING SECOND THAT THEY INTERACTED WITH HIM IN THE UNDERLAND. I KNEW HE WAS BEING CONTROLLED BY HER AND I KNEW SHE DIDN’T WANT ANYONE AROUND WHEN HE GOES THROUGH THIS PROCESS BECAUSE THEY’D FIND OUT THE TRUTH. I CANNOT DESCRIBE MY SATISFACTION OF BEING SO VALIDATED ABOUT MY INTERPRETATIONS OF ALL OF THE LITTLE HINTS IN THE DIALOGUE. I’M ON TOP OF THE WORLD.

[potpourrifandoms]

More Narnia Stuff

I am not having a fantastic day, so I was looking through my sketchbooks seeking small comforts and I found more Narnia drawings. It’s mostly Puddleglum because he’s fun to draw, but Glimfeather and Eustace and Jill are there. And a bat. And another owl. Sorry the quality is not great, these ones are just quick doodles and not as polished as some of my other drawings.

[art-of-narnia]

Na Runia Koku Monogatari Shinyaku 4 by Saku Kawai Shoichiro & Yaku Nardack

Artwork found here.

[pennypyro]

Glimfeather cracks me up. But he’s just being an owl.

Oh if the kids are making fun of Jill Pole’s name they would definitely make fun of Eustace Scrubb’s name

[raspberryzingaaa]

I need one more arm! Just one! I can't hold my tea AND my knitting! My book is on my lap so I don't need a hand for that but wjat to do what to Do

[forestofdragons]

When the clan’s alchemists create a potion that let one breath underwater, Glimfeather leaps at the opportunity. Literally. 

But she soon learns why fire dragons stay out of the water.

[thelonelyrainbowguy]

Meet Agaricus B. Glimfeather, Druid of the Circle of Spores and my first ever DnD character! High in smarts, low in people skills, and the B stands for Bobert, but don’t you dare tell anyone.

(Please appreciate the fungus-covered bone wand.)

[carewyncromwell]

10 facts about your ana? <3

My dear Ana-Banana! ^.^

1) After being introduced to the Victorian language of flowers by her older stepbrother Jasper (who’s into the Gothic Victorian subculture), Ana has taken to sending her BFF Robin Isherwood @cursebreakerfarrier special bouquets with secret messages for Valentine’s Day. Naturally a lot of people assume the flowers are from some anonymous secret admirer, but Robin always knows that the bouquets featuring yellow roses (meaning “friendship”), sunflowers (meaning “loyalty”), and/or pink campanula (meaning “gratitude”) are from his best friend.

2) Ana is very fond of many different kinds of books, but one of her greatest loves is Japanese manga. Her OTL is Sailor Moon, but she’s also huge into shoujo titles like Cardcaptor Sakura, Ouran High School Host Club, and Fruits Basket. Her favorite characters from each are Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon and Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter; Sakura Kinamoto and Yue; the Hitachiin twins Kaoru and Hikaru; and Yuki Sohma.

3) Despite her quiet, bookish affect, when it comes to disputes, Ana is interestingly the sort of person who prefers to “take it outside” and settle it with a good old-fashioned wizard’s duel rather than share in witty banter. This is because, even if Ana is an amazing writer, she’s not very good at public speaking or coming up with clever retorts on the fly. She’s also straight-forward and honorable enough as a person to prefer putting any problems out in the open and address them directly, rather than playing mind games.

4) On the note of wizard dueling, Ana is a formidable opponent. She learns how to do non-verbal spells before most of her classmates and is very good at using Charms and Transfiguration creatively to take out her opponents. One of her favorite tricks is levitating herself up off the ground before her opponent’s spell can land and then attacking them from above where they can’t as easily reach her.

5) Ana’s favorite band is Nightwish, a symphonic metal band from Finland which is also one of my favorite bands of all time! Ana’s favorite song of theirs is “Dead Boy’s Poem.”

6) As an INFP Gryffindor whose stepfather is a pro-Muggle-and-Squib-rights advocate, it’s unsurprising that Ana has her “activist” side too. She not only attends some of her stepfather Bradley Pinkstone’s events, but she also attends LGBT+ events as an Ally for her friends who are part of the community and protests against racial discrimination.

7) As an INFP as well, Ana is a lot more romantic than her “strong and silent” affect would first suggest. After marrying Charlie Copper @drinkyoursoupbitch, Ana takes to writing him love notes and leaving them in his lunch for him to find, as well as doing things like surprising him with a breakfast picnic on Valentine’s Day. (Hey, straight dudes could use some proper romancing too, sometimes!)

8) Ana is very self-conscious about her weight, thanks in large part to her mother Bonnie‘s subconscious weightism that prompts her to constantly “express concern” about Ana’s health and discourage her from wearing certain clothes so as to not look like (in her words) “a sack of potatoes tied in two.” This particular aspect is something I took from one of my mum’s own experiences with her mother as a girl.

9) Charlie Copper first met his at-the-time fiance Ana’s absent biological father, John Read, when Ana suggests visiting him at the military base where he worked. Ana had never gone to see her father at the base before, and she was understandably a bit perturbed when no one at the base knew who she was, claiming that John Read only had  a son. Ana tried to explain this away to both herself and Charlie as them just being confused, since she knew John did have a son with his new wife -- but when she arrived at John’s office and found his new wife and son there, she was proven horribly wrong, as neither of them knew who she was either and John’s wife looked very angry upon hearing that John was still in touch with his daughter from a previous marriage. Ana, who up until that point had been in denial about how little her father really wanted to be in her life and had made excuses for years about him being busy when he only answered a fraction of her letters, just barely managed to keep herself from bursting into tears in her father’s office, forcing a broken smile onto her face until she and Charlie had finally left before completely breaking down. The event is one of the only times in Charlie’s life he felt the urge to break the Statute of Secrecy, wanting to hex John Read in the face for how much his lack of caring had hurt Ana. When Bradley Pinkstone found out what had happened from Charlie, he also wrestled with the feeling of wanting to hold Read accountable for how he’d treated Ana, but refused to act on his anger and sense of vengeance out of respect for Ana and her feelings. Bradley ended up walking Ana down the aisle in her father’s stead, a decision both Ana and Charlie never thought twice about.

10) Ana names just all of her pets after characters from books. Ana’s first familiar was a black kitten she named Luna, after the character in Sailor Moon, and as an adult, she adopted a snowy owl she named Glimfeather, after the owl character in C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair.

10 Facts!

[tenth-sentence]

"It's only this," said Glimfeather.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" - C. S. Lewis

[delicatebluebirdruins]

The silver chair

- I remember very little of this book but what I do is Caspian scaring some bullies

- Ramandudu you mean

- poor Eustace- its brown trouser time folks

- yes Jill the giant talking Lion has mistaken you for someone else

- about the things Jill has to remember if it were me I’d be getting out a pen and paper so quick

*as I wrote this all I heard in my head was Mrs Bennet going there have been studies*

- oh shut it Jill how was Eustace to know who Caspian was?

- I love the owls lovingly taking the mickey out of Trumpkin

yeah Andrew Adamson really does look like a marsh wiggle

- giants playing anything must be terrifying

- some of the language used in this is questionable

Wigwam; bivouacked;

— i hate when I make a mistake and some of the writing gets crossed out... thankfully I am using a blue pen for this

- I am so glad that Eustace and Jill had Puddleglum with them to speak some reason

Though he is a barrel of laughs kind of like that guy from Bones

- poor Jill I think Clive was onto something “I hope you won’t lose all in interest in Jill for the rest of the book if I tell you that at this moment she began to cry” I hope I don’t have to explain what I mean by this

- I love Jill master manipulator

- the horror of eating a talking animal

- oh Rilian

- “where I come from they don’t think much of men who are bossed about by their wives”

- I love you all BUT

- I love Puddleglum

- I don’t like snakes

- Horses!

- aw people were worried about Puddleglum

- sleepy owl Glimfeather

- the centaurs meals are interesting

- Oh Cas

- I love them beating the bullies

[sylvia-tilly]

Glimfeather is played by Warwick as well... i did not know this at all.