Narnian headcanon week, 2.
Nov. 23rd, 2013 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaAnd of course, it's fifty years ago today that the first Doctor Who episode aired, so in honour of that, I've made today's head-canon the most timey-wimey one.
Second in the series:
She did not freeze time totally for Narnia, and would not have wanted to, since part of the point was to let Narnia decay in a long-drawn-out death. Thus there was change in Narnia (but not growth) during the Winter - since the Witch's Dwarf speaks of a brief thaw as possible, he must have experienced some such thaws some time previously - and there was a sense of the passage of time. But her manipulation of time meant that time did not move exactly the same way inside Narnia as it did outside Narnia for those hundred years (which would have cut Narnia off from interaction with other countries, too). I haven't sorted out how the time did move inside Narnia, exactly, but I think she stretched the time, somehow. The Beavers' dam seems to have been begun before the river froze, and it was built by Mr Beaver, so possibly they (and others in Narnia) had lived through the entire winter, stretched thinner, a little as Bilbo was stretched in Lord of the Rings.
Second in the series:
Jadis brought on the Winter by a manipulation of time, rather as she froze time for herself in the Hall of Images.
She did not freeze time totally for Narnia, and would not have wanted to, since part of the point was to let Narnia decay in a long-drawn-out death. Thus there was change in Narnia (but not growth) during the Winter - since the Witch's Dwarf speaks of a brief thaw as possible, he must have experienced some such thaws some time previously - and there was a sense of the passage of time. But her manipulation of time meant that time did not move exactly the same way inside Narnia as it did outside Narnia for those hundred years (which would have cut Narnia off from interaction with other countries, too). I haven't sorted out how the time did move inside Narnia, exactly, but I think she stretched the time, somehow. The Beavers' dam seems to have been begun before the river froze, and it was built by Mr Beaver, so possibly they (and others in Narnia) had lived through the entire winter, stretched thinner, a little as Bilbo was stretched in Lord of the Rings.
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Date: 2013-12-12 01:36 am (UTC)In my head, these are all Tumnus's father's books, too. (It was Tumnus's father who wrote the children's book in Chapter Four of 'The Ivory Merchants'.) I'll have to think that through! Thank you! :)