How good it would be to see the good places and locations that never were destroyed on Earth when viewing them from the new Narnia. I would think that would include anything good on Earth that should have remained standing. So if you had a favorite place from childhood you would be able to see it regardless of the location of time and place. I think that would also include people from long ago that you wish were still with us.
Perhaps, when Narnia was created, well given that Archenland and Calormen had not been established yet, it would have included it all of Narnia. In The Magician's Nephew, Aslan tells the first king and queen of Narnia, Frank I and Helen that their descendants would be kings and queens of Narnia and Archenland. So even though Archenland hadn't been established that, Aslan already knew that it would be at one point.
Perhaps Aslan never meant Calormen to be a proud and cruel country. It was a choice they've made. Perhaps, when the outlaws from Archenland started settling there, it started out as a descent country. But as time went on, they turned to cruelty.
"And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me beloved."
(Emeth, The Last Battle)
I feel like, Lewis wasn't as good at world building as Tolkien and other writers so this is what I look at as an inconsistency.
@ginnerva he certainly didn't spend most of his life creating another world and its people, as Tolkien did. He wrote stories to give light on aspects of faith, as well as being good stories. And here we are, 70 years later, discussing our theories about his world based on the hints he gave in the stories.
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
Well put @coracle. I very much agree. And I am by no means saying he did a bad job. I love Narnia; it's incredible. Just for conversation sake, it has inconsistencies. 🙂
Well, I wouldn't say there were no inconsistencies in the books, (I can think of at least two off the top of my head), but I don't really see how the topic is an inconsistency. Judging by what people have written it seems like everyone got the impression that when Aslan created Narnia, he created the whole world. Is the inconsistency that the characters talking about "going to Narnia" as opposed to "going to that world where Narnia is?" I feel like that just makes for more natural dialogue.
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