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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by Ariel.of.Narnia » Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:25 pm

Oh right! I'd quite forgotten tha MN came afterward! Well that does make me wonder what Lewis had in mind then.
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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by hansgeorg » Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:27 pm

The coins might be for the tree of protection rather than the two trees of silver and gold, then.
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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by kristi » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:02 pm

Trees of silver and gold...*looks around for giant spiders*

In the movies they've used replicas of various old coins to represent Narnian currency, including Athenian Owls. I think one of our members has a couple of the coin props. They were mostly used in VDT I believe, where the slave market made currency necessary, but there weren't going to be any closeups on the coins.
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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by marmota-b » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:07 pm

hansgeorg wrote:The coins might be for the tree of protection rather than the two trees of silver and gold, then.
Well, except that the Tree of Protection is also only brought up in MN. So we're left with a) Lewis was already playing with those ideas at the time of writing VDT (not that unlikely, actually, considering my own creative processes...); b) the name of Trees for the coins was for another reason entirely, maybe simply because he liked trees.
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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by hansgeorg » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:16 pm

"Well, except that the Tree of Protection is also only brought up in MN."

What is said about the tree the wardrobe was of in LWW?

"Lewis was already playing with those ideas at the time of writing VDT (not that unlikely, actually, considering my own creative processes...)"

I think it was highly likely too.
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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by marmota-b » Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:03 pm

hansgeorg wrote: What is said about the tree the wardrobe was of in LWW?
Nothing whatsoever.
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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by jesusgirl4ever » Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:24 pm

Or he also could have meant Dryads... course, one might wonder why not Naiads... ;)
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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by hansgeorg » Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:42 am

Monetising dryads? Hmmm.

"Why not Naiads" - because trees are easier to depict than waves?

Marmota, in that case I was recalling wrong. However, this leaves us with one highly probable solution:

"Lewis was already playing with those ideas at the time of writing VDT (not that unlikely, actually, considering my own creative processes...)"
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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by kristi » Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:25 pm

Public Service Announcement: I would like to take this moment to remind everyone of our very own game involving Narnian Currency: Coin Sorting. If you haven't played in a while, you've probably forgotten what mindless fun it can be. http://www.thelionscall.com/games/coin-sorting/

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Re: Narnian Currency

Post by hansgeorg » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:12 pm

It is kind of fun. (Hoping to stay non-addicted, in some libraries extensive use of that mght imply a ticket out in favour of "more intelligent" uses of internet). But it is still kind of fun.
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