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The Old Maid
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Topic starter Posted : July 5, 2025 2:08 pm
The Old Maid
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Originally posted by courtenay
By the way — I'm genuinely curious — why do you keep spelling "slave" as "sl@ve"? It's not a swear word in any form of English that I know of, and it definitely isn't a banned word in this forum.
Heh. Habit from another religious website called Patheos (with a comment-software called Disqus). If NarniaWeb is the suitable-for-all-ages book club in the church library ...
 
then Patheos is the church basement, where the budget is wept over and the Friends of Bill W meet. In other words, it can get loud. It isn't even necessarily intentional swearing. Sometimes it's just a frank discussion of sensitive subjects.
 
They have nowhere near enough moderators, so they added a software nicknamed "the nanny filter." The running joke is that the filter has a dirtier imagination than do most of the posters. (The product probably traveled back through time from the film DEMOLITION MAN, which has a nanny-dictatorship.)
 
True example: you cannot type the word "constitution." You must type it "const1tution." (Never mind the species of Puzzle the Donkey.)
 
If the filter thinks you have typed a bad word, your post is made invisible and cannot be seen, ever. But it cannot keep up with all the work-arounds, such as sl@ves or, better yet, "prisoners with jobs." (cf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xa-zIIuPes )
 
I hope everyone here appreciates the hard work and discretion of our NarniaWeb moderators. Hug  
 
Back to our subject. Smile  
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It's back! My humongous [technical term] study of What's behind "Left Behind" and random other stuff.

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Topic starter Posted : July 5, 2025 2:20 pm
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The Old Maid
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Here's a puzzling one. In THE LAST BATTLE, what happened to the Magic Rings?

We know that Peter and Edmund collected them. We suppose that the Rings were in some sort of Container (box? pouch? purse? jewelry box? paper bag?). Then Peter and Edmund (standing on the platform) are struck by the incoming train.

ONE: The Rings remain in the Container, and the Container remains on the body. The "crash scene investigators" collect the bodies and send them to the morgue. The Container is treated as personal effects, and handed over to Susan... unopened. (This requires the professionals to fail to perform an inventory. An inventory is customary.)

Footnote to ONE: apparently a popular theory else-web is that the Container was buried with Peter. It doesn't address the question of why Susan never opened it. But maybe she got the tingling, the shivers, when she touched it, as Uncle Andrew had felt so long ago, and just wanted it gone.

TWO: The Rings remain in the Container, and the Container on the body, but the professionals open it to perform an inventory. Someone touches a Yellow Ring, and vanishes. If the professional had the Container in hand, then that would relocate all of the Rings to the Wood Between the World. The professional takes a nap, and that's the end of the Rings running around loose, so to speak.

THREE: The Container breaks, scattering Rings over the crash scene. Dozens of persons might notice a Ring and try to pick it up ... crash scene investigators, ambulance/hearse personnel, dazed survivors, disaster-tourists, and even some homeless persons living in or around the station. Up to a dozen people touch a Yellow Ring and vanish into the Wood Between the Worlds. They take a nap, and that's the end of the Yellow Rings. (The fate of the Green Rings remains unknown.)

FOUR: Peter and Edmund are struck by the engine, specifically. A fireball erupts. They are incinerated and the Rings melt. Of course, if a fire that "cool" could melt supernatural rings, Peter and Edmund could have been instructed by Aslan, or even the Professor Kirke, to visit a steel mill and melt them like the Terminator Two.

Then again, if Aslan wanted the Rings removed from our world (now that their guardians are leaving said world), he could have asked them to bury the Rings around a tree in the Wood Between the Worlds.

My guess is that Number Three is the most likely. But I would be interested to hear alternate possibilities.

 

 

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Topic starter Posted : July 7, 2025 3:56 pm
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@the-old-maid I've always assumed possibly no. 2 happened even though it's kind of depressing. It just seems the most likely and doesn't require any leaps of logic. 

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Posted : July 7, 2025 4:56 pm
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Hey, people with excellent imaginations:

This thread could easily stray into fan fiction. It is well known that I don't like fan fiction, and it is not allowed on Narniaweb. 

So please will you stay on the right side of the line, when you write your scenarios? Thank you🦁

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."

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Posted : July 7, 2025 8:54 pm
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