Narnia QuestionFollow

I'm almost done re-reading LW&W. I've read The Magician's Nephew and The Horse and His Boy. After reading Magician's Nephew I was under the impression that the witch in that book was the same witch that is in Narnia when we first meet Peter, Edmund, Susan, and Lucy. Is this not the case? It doesn't seem like it is at all and yet I seem to recall C.S. Lewis referring to her as the same witch while I was reading the Magician's Nephew.

Things that don't add up in LWW include things like the book saying that no humans have ever set foot in Narnia or that the witch has never seen a human before. This of course wasn't the case because Diggory was there and so were the cab driver and his wife who became the first King and Queen of Narnia.

Do I have to read the entire series to understand these inconsistencies or can someone explain them to me without spoiling the novels that come after?

He gets glass in his eye.

At least I think that's LW&W. No?

That's the extent of my memory from reading it in 5th grade.

the books publication and the order in history the books were set in were skewed, so when he wrote the lion, the witch and the wardrobe(first published, second according to timeline), he probably did not know he was going to be writing the magicians nephew(second last published, first in timeline) so there are some inconsistancies in the books due to that.
the order of the books doesn't matter all that much however I read them in chronological order of Narnian history(The Magician's Nephew>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe>The Horse and His Boy>Prince Caspian>The Voyage of the Dawn Treader>The Silver Chair>The Last Battle) I dont know publication order at the moment other then the 2 previously stated(and the last battle is last(obviously))
I read them a long time ago so I am not sure how accurately I can describe some of the inconsistancies without possibly ruining the book's so I am going to avoid it, if you read the entire series you will understand most of it though.

Edited, Fri Jul 29 14:11:12 2005 by Sodijay

Edited, Fri Jul 29 14:20:42 2005 by Sodijay

maybe she was just lying.

she IS the evil witch n' stuff.

The white queen is from a different world that the children from the magicians nephew travel too. While there they meet the witch and she travels with them back to the real world. With a lot of trouble and chaos they end up getting her out of the world but they all end up in a black and desolate world.

Then aslan shows up and the world then becomes Narnia. The witch ends up running away in the distance and diseapers in time until she pops up once again LW&W.

When they left there world and came into Narnia they also brought along an iron rod which fell into the ground in Narnia and became the Lightpost.

It also bears mentioning that Aslan is the son of the God that creates everything. He says on multiple times that he has many visages on many different worlds. Thus emphasizing C S Lewis's hidden metaphor that Aslan is actually Jesus in our world but a lion in Narnia.





Also wanted to mention that the queen also pops up in King Caspian as the witch who the dwarves wanted to help. But Caspian ends up killing her before she can reclaim any true power. The White Queen represents Satan in that she can never die, but can be restored when those of evil hearts are willing to give her power.

Having read most of what Lewis wrote, I'm still confused as to why he decided to write children's fiction. Both the Narnia Chronicles and his space trilogy are not only boring, but poorly written. He has none of his friend Tolkein's talents in that arena.

The closest he came with a fiction piece to holding to the style of his non-fiction was Til We Have Faces. A much better read.