Corin would be a good king for Narnia in that enemies would be afraid to attack Narnia, but I think he probably wouldn't handle all the paperwork.
😆 Lol, Hermit.
That's why there are Royal Advisors, yeah? 🙂
(On Narniamuck, At least from my understanding, Peridan is I believe commander of the armies under High King Peter, generally in charge of the goings on around and in Cair Paravel. It has also been mentioned that that their is a counsel.)
As the others have said I think it is likely for Narnia to have been ruled by a council, who knows? Maybe he was pressured to become king. Not every council agrees 100% all the time. And what happens when the members are old and new ones take their place? I can seen there being good Narnians with blinds spots they didn't realize until later. They might not always be ones with good intentions at heart. (In Lord of the Rings, the steward of the king starts rulling and we have a succession of stewards, until last Aragorn, descendant of the Kings of Old takes back the throne.)
I do think that it is possible as is human nature to get comfortable and get lazy. The watch is not kept as carefully. Men turn to be out for their own interests. Men turn evil. "All that is nessesary for the triumph of evil is that good men (or Narnians) do nothing.
Who knows exactly what went on? But this is why I think is is excellent material for fanfics 🙂
On the topic of councils, I find it highly likely that the Pevensies had a number of advisers, especially when they were younger and just beginning to rule.
Who knows exactly what went on? But this is why I think is is excellent material for fanfics 🙂
If ever I get the time and inspiration, I do want to explore post-Pevensie Narnia and the Dark Ages. 🙂
Corin would be a good king for Narnia in that enemies would be afraid to attack Narnia, but I think he probably wouldn't handle all the paperwork.
What paperwork? How much was there?
Beasts who talk and dwarfs and satyrs and fauns ... feel any great need for administration?
Especially since school compulsion (which under Jadis there had been for young dwarfs and satyrs) was abolished.
There could also be human immigrants who came into Narnia after they found out that the human-killing-Jadis was dead.
Indeed, Lone Islands, some from Archenland, not sure if Telmar was already populated by Telmarines, think it was, Seven Islands (inspired no doubt by the birthplace of Lafkadio Hearn, on Lefkada = probably Ithaka, though others identify it as Thiaki, which belonged then to United States of the Ionian Islands, earlier Septinsular Republic) ... not forgetting Galma and Terebinthia.
Some of these places might be where Peridan came from.
On the topic of councils, I find it highly likely that the Pevensies had a number of advisers, especially when they were younger and just beginning to rule.
Back then, for one thing they had friends, like Tumnus and the Beavers, for another, not yet many men.
Peridan being a Lone Islander, never thought of that. It seems more likely that humans emigrated to Narnia after Jadis died.
Sure, but Lone Islands was not "Narnia" before the time of King Peter. Or if it had been, it had to be reconquered.
"The Lone Islands were originally settled by the descendants of King Frank I and Queen Helen during the Age of Conquest. In the early fourth century, a dragon began to terrorize the inhabitants. King Gale of Narnia, ninth in descent from Frank I, delivered the islands by slaying the dragon in 302. In return, the grateful islanders made him their emperor. Gale appointed a governor of the islands to be his representative. The islands remained under Narnian rule through the reign of Jadis (whose titles included Empress of the Lone Islands), and they may have experienced her endless winter like Narnia." (Source: WikiNarnia)
I thought they had not, and I confused King Peter with King Gale apparently.
I wouldn't hold wikiNarnia as a reliable source.
There's not a great deal that anyone knows about the Lone Islands. Even the characters seem not to know much at all.
' "I've never understood why they belong to Narnia," said Caspian. "Did Peter the High King conquer them?"
"Oh, no," said Edmund. "They were Narnian before our time--in the days of the White Witch."
(By the way, I have never yet heard how these remote islands became attached to the crown of Narnia; if I ever do, and if the story is at all interesting, I may put it in some other book.) '
VODT, Chapter 3
(I would include the bit that mentions King Gale, but my mind went blank and I can't even remember which book the reference is in. 🙄 )
It's in LB, when Jewel is telling Jill about the history of Narnia, right?
Yes, it is.
