The silver armchair
The Silver Chair or The door to Narnia ( . English title The Silver Chair ) is a fantasy - novel for children of Irish writer C. S. Lewis . The book was published in 1953 by Geoffrey Bles, followed by three more volumes in the series The Chronicles of Narnia . In the narrative order of the chronicles, The Silver Armchair is the sixth volume, after the 1952 published Die Reise auf der Morgenröte .
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Eustachius (or Eustace) finds his classmate Jill crying behind the sports hall of their school and tells her comfortingly of his adventure with his cousin Edmund and his cousin Lucy in the land of Narnia . Not convinced by Eustachius' words, they are both discovered and persecuted by their classmates. As they pass through a side gate of the school, they suddenly end up in another world and immediately begin to argue who is to blame for these circumstances.
During the argument, they come to a cliff and Eustachius is accidentally pushed down by Jill. Weeping, she stumbles through the nearby forest and comes across Aslan , who assigns the two children the task of looking for King Caspian's missing son, Prince Rillian. Aslan then sends her with his breath to Narnia, where she meets Eustachius again.
The fact that they argued a few hours ago has long been forgotten and with the help of talking owls they fly to northern Narnia and meet the moor wiggle mourning puddle there. Together the traveling companions begin their journey north and meet a woman dressed in green and a hooded knight, who they send to the gigantic city to stay for a few days. When they get there, however, they are pampered and thus seduced to stay, because the real goal of the giants is to eat them at a festival. The children and mourning puddles find out about this in time and flee into a tunnel, where they are held by underworld creatures who bring them to their queen. But this is not present and so they are greeted in their palace by a person who turns out to be the hooded knight whom they met before. They ask him for explanations that his mistress wanted to let the giants eat them, but he only replies that his mistress was only doing the right thing and that it must be a misunderstanding.
Later that day, the young man warns the children and mourning puddles that he occasionally has tantrums and that he must be handcuffed to a silver armchair during these tantrums so as not to harm himself. When he really gets such a tantrum, he talks about the fact that he is the missing Prince Rillian and that they have to free him quickly. The children doubt which of the two statements they can believe. Whether he is the real prince when he sits in the silver chair or whether it is just the heralded fits of madness. Eventually they risk it and set him free. Then they smash the silver armchair. The green witch suddenly appears in the room. She is killed in battle by Rillian and takes the form of a snake. The same snake had killed Rillian's mother years earlier and abducted him with the help of her magic. But he manages to leave the realm of the underworld and Rillian meets his father, King Caspian. Shortly thereafter, Caspian dies and Rillian becomes king. Jill and Eustachius later return to their own world and, with Aslan's help, can defeat their classmates.
filming
- 1990: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Armchair (TV, real film)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karlsruhe City Library: http://opac.karlsruhe.de/opac/g_ftitle.S?27284=YES&LANG=de&FUNC=full
- ↑ Narnia Translations: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Sources / literature
- The Chronicles of Narnia, Volume 6 - The Silver Armchair ISBN 978-3865060860
- The Chronicles of Narnia (hardcover) ISBN 3-8000-5186-9