Charn

"He sent us out of our own world by magic rings, at least I had to go because he sent Polly first, and then we met the Witch in a place called Charn and she just held on to us when -"

The Magician's Nephew Lewis, C. S. 1955

Back in the land of the living, Charn Thovis, keeping a cool head, realises something has happened to the queen's state of mind, and takes her son away.

Archive 2007-03-01 Blue Tyson 2007

Like the passage in The Magician's Nephew when Digory and Polly return from their visit the Wood between the Worlds accompanied by the utterly terrifying Jadis, Queen of Charn, and Digory's uncle, through terrified of her, can't help but be enamoured at the same time: 'Children have one kind of sillines, as you know,' C S Lewis writes, 'and grown ups have another kind.

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Or sometimes I'll find that a particular scene from one of his books has been on my mind like today's post about Charn and I'll hunt down the chapter and re-read it to see if I want to quote from it.

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Or sometimes I'll find that a particular scene from one of his books has been on my mind like today's post about Charn and I'll hunt down the chapter and re-read it to see if I want to quote from it.

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Is, then, the dead world of Charn, from whence she originated in The Magician's Nephew, heaven or hell?

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Is, then, the dead world of Charn, from whence she originated in The Magician's Nephew, heaven or hell?

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Digory had not been in the drawingroom when she tried to "blast" Aunt Letty, but he had seen her "blast" the gates at Charn: so he knew her terrible powers and did not know that she had lost any of them by coming into our world.

The Magician's Nephew Lewis, C. S. 1955

Then she studied his face as she had studied Digory's face in the palace of Charn.

The Magician's Nephew Lewis, C. S. 1955

But it would have done so by making Narnia into another strong and cruel empire like Charn, not the kindly land I mean it to be.

The Magician's Nephew Lewis, C. S. 1955