#coriakin

[supernovasilence]

Speculating Wildly About Liliandil's Parentage

In the VDT movie, Liliandil is a star and comes down from the sky. However, in the books, Liliandil is described as the daughter of Ramandu, a star, and that "the blood of the stars flowed in her veins", but she's never called a star herself. In fact, when she first appears (walking very normally out of a door), she's described as carrying a candle for light; when Ramandu comes out, he's not carrying a candle, because he's glowing himself. All this implies Lili isn't a star, only the daughter of one. Which raises the question: who is Liliandil's mother? Some random theories:

Liliandil's mother is one of the Sea People

Liliandil's mother is a sailor or shipwrecked traveler who found her way to Ramandu's island and fell in love

Liliandil's mother is another star. Lili was born in the skies but chose to accompany her father down to earth when he retired

Liliandil's mother is another star, and assumes human form to visit her husband in the world below sometimes. Lili was conceived and born during one of these visits, and because of this the form most natural to her is human, not whatever a star's normal form is. She has to live with her father until she's older and more skilled at transforming

We shouldn't make assumptions about Ramandu's gender or star biology. Maybe he was pregnant when he retired and didn't realize until he'd already come down to land

Stars don't need a partner to reproduce. Ramandu is Liliandil's only parent

Ramandu is Lili's father in that he gave her life and raised her and loves her but she wasn't "born" per se. He created her magically somehow

Coriakin is Liliandil's mom

[tenth-sentence]

"All times may be soon to Aslan; but in my home all hungry times are one o'clock."

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" - C. S. Lewis

[archivingheartbeats]

VDT 11

---

He isn't the Tyrant they say he is –

or at least, he isn't now.

What sins a starry exile make

Are only a Star's to know.

He conjures English food for guest,

Cold lamb and peas for tea;

He napped through her little quest,

And governs, it seems, unseriously. 

He collects so many wonders

As would widen up your eyes,

And punishes the stubborn blunders 

With monopods' surprise.

Still he's a well-intentioned sort,

It doesn't do to whine.

He keeps well with a little sport

His books, his gardens, his red wine.

[juliaswickcrs]

ALINA KINSLEY + MARJORIE KIRKE

you're alive, so alive "Your grandmother was the most beautiful, vibrant, woman I'd ever known. I was a fool not to fall in love with her. I was a fool to choose this over what was offered to me. ...you remind me so much of her. my Marjorie." -CORIAKIN, the voyage of the dawn treader

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[flickeringflame216]

I did one for each book, but there are lots more so maybe I'll make a part 2! C.S. Lewis never fails to make me hungry.

[queenlucythevaliant]

There was a park a few blocks away from Uncle Harold and Aunt Alberta’s home in Cambridge where Lucy would often wander that summer when she wanted to be alone. She’d tuck a book under her arm and call to Edmund, “I’m going!” and then she’d go find herself a tree.

Branches waved gently, like fingers against the sky. Lucy would settle herself on her favorite bench and try to read, but sometimes she just found herself gazing at those branches. When she was sure the park was empty, she’d succumb to her most fanciful impulse to get up and walk among them. Wake, she’d think, and imagine the faces that each kind of tree would have.

Lucy knew it was fancy, but it wasn’t delusion. She could tell the difference. After all, it had been truth that first set her on the path to Narnia, dismissed as both delusion and fancy.

At school she read Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. She painted Prospero with Coriakin’s coloring, high wiry brows and sun-wrinkled skin. She gave him long fingers, an imaginative touch—Coriakin’s had been rather short and stubby—and heard the poetry in her own voice. She read aloud to her friends sometimes, just picked up wherever she was and read while Marjorie and Josephine curled up under blankets with mugs of hot tea.

“It sounds better when you read it,” Marjorie mused. “Even if it is musty old Shakespeare.”

There were glimpses of gold in puddles on the pavement, and Lucy found herself glancing up as though she expected to find Aslan in her periphery. He wasn't there, of course, but the sunset shot light into the street and made it shine. Aslan wasn't in the chapel at school either, but the bells pealed golden every hour. He wasn't stalking beneath her dormitory window, but there were fresh footprints in the snow.

Lucy was sure that if only she could remember the spell for making hidden things visible, she'd find her whole world cloaked in tawny, velvet gold. Aslan in the kitchen, Aslan in the sky at dawn. Aslan in the faces of her friends, who laughed when Lucy said fanciful things but who listened rapt when she read aloud.

"I swear, you and your read-alouds, Lucy Pevensie," grinned Josephine as the cover fell shut. "Why, it's almost as though you believe in all the stories! You're not theatrical, just credulous." So Lucy leaned back and taught her friend how to tell if someone was lying, or delusional, or if they had a marvelous truth to tell.

On lonely weekends, Lucy begged Professor Digory to take her with him to Oxford to see the great stone halls and the towering cathedral and she loved the way the angels’ sloping wings looked against the sky. Wake, she whispered as she passed by graves and monuments to those long dead, and imagined that she might see Aslan pacing behind them, ready to breathe them back to life.

[mask131]

Of course, parallels are always going to be drawn between Tolkien's Legendarium and Lewis' Narnia. But, as someone who loves to study the depiction of magic in fantasy, there is one parallel that keeps sticking with me, or rather two-in-one.

Parallel one: Both authors have in their fantasy world a group of magic-users of a same gender (the Istari/Order of the Wizards/the Five Wizards ; the coven of the Northern Witches), with only two members of this group being fully explored as characters (Gandalf & Saruman VS The White Witch and the Lady of the Green Kirtle), and the others being left vague and mysterious (only a handful of info on Radagast and the Blue Wizards ; zero info about the other Northern Witches)

Parallel two: Both chose to depict wizards in their fantasy worlds as magical because they are actually supernatural entities that took a human form (the Istari are Maiar - divine spirits/minor angels/"daemon" in the Greek sense of the term - who were sent as messengers/helpers/emissaries ; the various wizards of Narnia are fallen stars undergoing penance for mysterious crimes). Plus, both authors presented three wizards to their audience, two forming an obvious duo (Gandalf and Saruman ; Coriakin and Ramandu), while the third is a "lesser" character (Radagast because he only appears in mentions and secondary tales, always in an indirect way ; the Hermit of the Southern March because he has all the traits of a Narnian wizard but is never called, adressed or identified as such).

[wingedflight]

Sexiest Narnian Bracket Tournament!

That's right, we're doing this. Who do YOU think deserves to be crowned as the sexiest Narnian character?

Round 1 (Part 1)

Polls closed

Jewel vs Peter Pevensie Queen Helen vs Prince Rilian Drinian vs Swanwhite King Lune vs Aravis Jadis' Sister vs Lady of the Green Kirtle Miraz vs Lord Bern Rabadash vs Bree Ramandu's Daughter vs the Sea Girl Tirian vs Mrs. Macready Edmund Pevensie vs Jadis Shasta/Cor vs Emeth White Stag vs Maugrim River God vs Father Time Trumpkin vs Coriakin Glenstorm vs Susan Pevensie Tash vs Glozelle

Round 1 (Part 2)

Polls closed

Corin vs Aslan Digory Kirke vs Reepicheep Bacchus vs Lucy Pevensie Father Christmas vs Mr. Tumnus Mrs. Beaver vs Anradin Tarkaan Lasaraleen vs Prunaprismia Polly Plummer vs Roonwit Eustace Scrubb vs Aunt Letty Lord Peridan vs Ramandu Sallowpad vs Fledge Jill Pole vs Queen of Harfang Hwin vs Ram the Great Rhince vs King Frank Uncle Andrew vs Oreius Caspian vs Dr. Cornelius Mr. Beaver vs The Werewolf

Round 2

Polls closed

Peter Pevensie vs Queen Helen Swanwhite vs Aravis Tarkheena Lady of the Green Kirtle vs Miraz Bree vs Ramandu's Daughter Tirian vs Edmund Pevensie Shasta/Cor vs Maugrim River God vs Trumpkin Susan Pevensie vs Tash Corin vs Reepicheep Bacchus vs Tumnus Lasaraleen vs Mrs. Beaver Polly Plummer vs Eustace Scrubb vs Aunt Letty Lord Peridan vs Sallowpad vs Fledge Jill Pole vs Hwin King Frank vs Oreius Caspian vs The Werewolf

Round 3

Polls closed

Peter Pevensie vs Aravis Tarkheena Lady of the Green Kirtle vs Ramandu's Daughter Edmund Pevensie vs Shasta/Cor River God vs Susan Pevensie Corin vs Bacchus Lasaraleen vs Polly Plummer Fledge vs Jill Pole Oreius vs Caspian

Round 4

Polls closed

Aravis Tarkheena vs Lady of the Green Kirtle Edmund Pevensie vs Susan Pevensie Bacchus vs Lasaraleen Jill Pole vs Caspian

Round 5: Semifinals!

Polls closed

Aravis Tarkheena vs Susan Pevensie Bacchus vs Caspian

Round 6: Finals!

Poll closed

Susan Pevensie vs Caspian X

Happy voting all!

Winner: Susan Pevensie!!

[lucy-pevensies]

you've chosen which friend of narnia you want to visit narnia with.

[ao3feed-inheritancecycle]

Like fitting in a Middle Earth glove

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/mJitTeA

by BrotherofaStudio

Words: 4211, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Like Fitting in a Glove

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Video Games), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - All Media Types, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher, Warcraft - All Media Types, World of Warcraft, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Drizzt Do'Urden, Bruenor Battlehammer, Catti-brie (Dungeons & Dragons), Wulfgar (Dungeons & Dragons), Gandalf | Mithrandir, Saruman | Curunír, Elrond Peredhel, Aragorn | Estel, Alustriel Silverhand, Storm Silverhand, Dove Falconhand, Laeral Silverhand, Anastra Syluné Silverhand, R'hllor | Lord of Light (A Song of Ice and Fire), Raistlin Majere, Palin Majere, Caramon Majere, Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor, Black Hand of Sauron, Sam Gamgee, Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, Legolas Greenleaf, Thorin Oakenshield, Fenrir Greyback, Helga Hufflepuff, Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Ulmo (Tolkien), Harry Dresden, Melisandre (A Song of Ice and Fire), Kinvara (Game of Thrones), Benerro (ASoIaF), Moqorro (A Song of Ice and Fire), Thoros of Myr (A Song of Ice and Fire), Malygos (Warcraft), Ysera (Warcraft), Alexstrasza (Warcraft), Ariakas (Dragonlance), Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Laurana Kanan, Gilthas Pathfinder, Sturm Brightblade, Kilrogg Deadeye, Eragon Shadeslayer, Arya Dröttningu, Galbatorix (Inheritance Cycle), Orik (Inheritance Cycle), Usha Majere, Aslan (Narnia), Jadis | The White Witch, Caspian (Narnia), Nikabrik (Narnia), Ramandu’s Daughter | Liliandil, Ramandu (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Trumpkin (Narnia)

Relationships: Catti-brie/Drizzt Do'Urden, Gandalf/The Simbul

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Middle Earth Setting

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/mJitTeA

[ao3feed-tolkien]

Like fitting in a Middle Earth glove

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/aDTpgCO

by BrotherofaStudio

Words: 4211, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Like Fitting in a Glove

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Video Games), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - All Media Types, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher, Warcraft - All Media Types, World of Warcraft, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Drizzt Do'Urden, Bruenor Battlehammer, Catti-brie (Dungeons & Dragons), Wulfgar (Dungeons & Dragons), Gandalf | Mithrandir, Saruman | Curunír, Elrond Peredhel, Aragorn | Estel, Alustriel Silverhand, Storm Silverhand, Dove Falconhand, Laeral Silverhand, Anastra Syluné Silverhand, R'hllor | Lord of Light (A Song of Ice and Fire), Raistlin Majere, Palin Majere, Caramon Majere, Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor, Black Hand of Sauron, Sam Gamgee, Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, Legolas Greenleaf, Thorin Oakenshield, Fenrir Greyback, Helga Hufflepuff, Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Ulmo (Tolkien), Harry Dresden, Melisandre (A Song of Ice and Fire), Kinvara (Game of Thrones), Benerro (ASoIaF), Moqorro (A Song of Ice and Fire), Thoros of Myr (A Song of Ice and Fire), Malygos (Warcraft), Ysera (Warcraft), Alexstrasza (Warcraft), Ariakas (Dragonlance), Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Laurana Kanan, Gilthas Pathfinder, Sturm Brightblade, Kilrogg Deadeye, Eragon Shadeslayer, Arya Dröttningu, Galbatorix (Inheritance Cycle), Orik (Inheritance Cycle), Usha Majere, Aslan (Narnia), Jadis | The White Witch, Caspian (Narnia), Nikabrik (Narnia), Ramandu’s Daughter | Liliandil, Ramandu (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Trumpkin (Narnia)

Relationships: Catti-brie/Drizzt Do'Urden, Gandalf/The Simbul

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Middle Earth Setting

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/aDTpgCO

[ao3feed-thehobbit]

Like fitting in a Middle Earth glove

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3ZKlszT

by BrotherofaStudio

Words: 4211, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Like Fitting in a Glove

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Video Games), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - All Media Types, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher, Warcraft - All Media Types, World of Warcraft, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Drizzt Do'Urden, Bruenor Battlehammer, Catti-brie (Dungeons & Dragons), Wulfgar (Dungeons & Dragons), Gandalf | Mithrandir, Saruman | Curunír, Elrond Peredhel, Aragorn | Estel, Alustriel Silverhand, Storm Silverhand, Dove Falconhand, Laeral Silverhand, Anastra Syluné Silverhand, R'hllor | Lord of Light (A Song of Ice and Fire), Raistlin Majere, Palin Majere, Caramon Majere, Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor, Black Hand of Sauron, Sam Gamgee, Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, Legolas Greenleaf, Thorin Oakenshield, Fenrir Greyback, Helga Hufflepuff, Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Ulmo (Tolkien), Harry Dresden, Melisandre (A Song of Ice and Fire), Kinvara (Game of Thrones), Benerro (ASoIaF), Moqorro (A Song of Ice and Fire), Thoros of Myr (A Song of Ice and Fire), Malygos (Warcraft), Ysera (Warcraft), Alexstrasza (Warcraft), Ariakas (Dragonlance), Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Laurana Kanan, Gilthas Pathfinder, Sturm Brightblade, Kilrogg Deadeye, Eragon Shadeslayer, Arya Dröttningu, Galbatorix (Inheritance Cycle), Orik (Inheritance Cycle), Usha Majere, Aslan (Narnia), Jadis | The White Witch, Caspian (Narnia), Nikabrik (Narnia), Ramandu’s Daughter | Liliandil, Ramandu (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Trumpkin (Narnia)

Relationships: Catti-brie/Drizzt Do'Urden, Gandalf/The Simbul

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Middle Earth Setting

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3ZKlszT

[thedawntreaders]

c.s. lewis's worldbuilding is kind of funny because centaurs read the stars for fortunetelling but stars have a life of their own (as evidenced by the existence of coriakin and ramandu, liliandil included if you consider the movies) and i'm just here sitting like... do you think the stars ever got uncomfortable?

star #1: they're looking at us with great intent again i think they want us to do something

star #2, obviously very tired: if it's a supernova they want i can give it to them

star #3, looking through a sheet on a clipboard: alright whose turn is it to run across the sky, we haven't done that in a while

[lucent-knight]

Coriakin ( the star and the magician who guides the dufflepuds )

[silentaffirmation]

Still wondering what Coriakin did wrong when he was a star. Like did he crash into another star bc he's a bad dancer or what?

[lightmotif139]

I recently reread the Narnia books, so I thought I would draw a few favorite characters.  (Didn’t draw Aslan because I can’t do him justice.)