History Fridge / TheChroniclesOfNarnia

** Turned UpToEleven in Prince Caspian. They go back to Narnia! Yay! But...''everyone they know is dead''. Imagine every single one of your friends and everything you built being destroyed. You never got to say goodbye or mourn them. That's it.

** A related element of FridgeHorror is connected to a point mentioned under FridgeBrilliance, about Pauline Baynes's drawings of beardless Calormene slaves. Even if the Tarkaan doesn't want Shasta as a SexSlave--going by the Islamic and Mesopotamian empires that inspired Calormen, he might want the kid as a ''eunuch''.

* When reading the books in chronological order, almost the first thing we learn about Jadis is how she killed everyone in her world rather than let her sister win. Skip ahead to the end of The Last Battle and Aslan [[NotSoDifferent kills everyone in Narnia's world rather than let Tash win.]] And then he erases the sapience of every creature that doesn't love him in that moment. Whatever your thoughts on Lewis' idea of God, "Not a tame Lion" is kind of an understatement...

* The two slaves at the Tisroc's clandestine meeting (with his heir Prince Rabadash and his grand vizier Ahoshta Tarkaan) are deaf and mute. This fits with Calormen's [[ArabianNightsDays Islamic influence]], as the Ottoman UsefulNotes/{{Turk|ey}}ish court also employed deaf-mute attendants because they were better at keeping secrets. These slaves are also the only Calormene men who the illustrator Pauline Baynes drew without facial hair, indicating that they might be eunuchs--another staple of the StandardRoyalCourt in many historical Islamic monarchies (again, including the Ottoman Empire) and in ''pre''-Islamic Mesopotamia (which also inspired Calormen, specifically in terms of religion).

* The two slaves at the Tisroc's clandestine meeting (with his heir Prince Rabadash and his grand vizier Ahoshta Tarkaan) are deaf and mute. This fits with Calormen's [[ArabianNightsDays Islamic influence]], as the Ottoman UsefulNotes/{{Turk|ey}}ish court also employed deaf-mute attendants because they were better at keeping secrets. These slaves are also the only Calormene men who the illustrator Pauline Baynes drew without facial hair, indicating that they might be eunuchs--another staple of the StandardRoyalCourt in many historical Islamic monarchies (again, including the Ottoman Empire) and in some ''pre''-Islamic Mesopotamian empires (which also inspired Calormen, specifically in terms of religion).

* The two slaves at the Tisroc's clandestine meeting (with his heir Prince Rabadash and his grand vizier Ahoshta Tarkaan) are deaf and mute. This fits with Calormen's [[ArabianNightsDays Islamic influence]], as the Ottoman UsefulNotes/{{Turk|ey}}ish court also employed deaf-mute attendants because they were better at keeping secrets. These slaves are also the only Calormene men who the illustrator Pauline Baynes drew without facial hair, indicating that they might also be eunuchs--another staple of the StandardRoyalCourt in many historical Islamic monarchies (again, including the Ottoman Empire) and in some ''pre''-Islamic Mesopotamian empires (which also inspired Calormen, specifically in terms of religion).

* The two slaves at the Tisroc's clandestine meeting (with his heir Prince Rabadash and his grand vizier Ahoshta Tarkaan) are deaf and mute. This fits with Calormen's [[ArabianNightsDays Islamic influence]], as the Ottoman UsefulNotes/{{Turk|ey}}ish court also employed deaf-mute attendants because they were better at keeping secrets. These slaves are also the only Calormene men who the illustrator Pauline Baynes drew without facial hair, indicating that they might also be eunuchs--another staple of many historical Islamic courts (again, including in the Ottoman Empire) and of some ''pre''-Islamic Mesopotamian courts (which also inspired Calormen, specifically in terms of religion).

* The two slaves at the Tisroc's clandestine meeting (with his heir Prince Rabadash and his grand vizier Ahoshta Tarkaan) are deaf and mute. This fits with Calormen's [[ArabianNightsDays Islamic influence]], as the Ottoman UsefulNotes/{{Turk|ey}}ish court also employed deaf-mute attendants because they were better at keeping secrets. These slaves are also the only Calormene men who the illustrator Pauline Baynes drew without facial hair, indicating that they might also be eunuchs -- another staple of many historical Islamic courts like in the Ottoman Empire.

** A related element of FridgeHorror is connected to a point mentioned under FridgeBrilliance, about Pauline Baynes's drawings of beardless Calormene slaves. Even if the Tarkaan doesn't want Shasta as a SexSlave--going by the Islamic empires that inspired Calormen, he might want the kid as a ''eunuch''.

* The two slaves at the Tisroc's clandestine meeting (with his heir Prince Rabadash and his grand vizier Ahoshta Tarkaan) are deaf and mute. This fits with Calormen's [[ArabianNightsDays Islamic influence]], as the Ottoman UsefulNotes/{{Turk|ey}}ish court also employed deaf-mute attendants because they were better at keeping secrets. These slaves are also the only Calormene men who the illustrator Pauline Baynes drew without beards, indicating that they might also be eunuchs -- another staple of many historical Islamic courts like in the Ottoman Empire.

* Why are the wolves so loyal to the White Witch? Well, aside from being evil, they like her never ending winter because winter is a good time for real wolves unlike most other animals. The shortage of food weakens the prey, and snow slows the prey down and weakens it further, so wolves eat better in winter compared to any other time of the year. This was probably not intentional or realized by the author, but it is a explanation beyond [[ForTheEvulz "they're just evil."]]

** The sleeping lords' island had plenty of trees on it, and the people on the boats were from seafaring cultures. Chances are, if the ''Dawn Treader'' left them some tools and sailcloth, they could build their ''own'' ships to sail home on after a few months' work.

** Tangentially related: this probably wasn't Lewis's intent, but a divine lion destroying a corrupted world echoes the far older and gorier tale of the Myth/{{Egyptian|Mythology}} goddess Sekhmet. In that case, though, the rest of the pantheon prevents her from finishing the job by getting her UnsuspectinglySoused (yes, really).

** Relatedly -- this probably wasn't Lewis's intent, but a divine lion destroying a corrupted world echoes a far older and gorier tale: that of the Myth/{{Egyptian|Mythology}} goddess Sekhmet. In that case, though, the rest of the pantheon prevents her from finishing the job by getting her UnsuspectinglySoused (yes, really).

* Not only does ''The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe'' represent the Christian Tradition of Easter (Jesus/Aslan's Death and Resurrection), it also represents the ''traditional'' Easter; where Winter (represented by the White Queen and her never-ending Snow Storm) is replaced by Spring (represented by Aslan, whose presence is almost always in sunny green pastures) and begins a new Year (in this case, a new Era ruled by the Pevensies).

** It's not a very close parallel. Jadis was willing to kill ''everything'' and sit in a RoomFullOfCrazy forever just to avoid losing. Aslan can't 'lose' to Tash (he's a BoringInvincibleHero after all), he just wants to preserve "the good bits" of the universe he built before shutting it down. I'm not a fan of Raptures or OmniscientMoralityLicense in general, but I don't think those two situations are very similar.

*** Wolves in general are also well-adapted to living in cold climates.

* The Pevensies being told they're too old to return to Narnia seems a bit odd, since Peter and Susan are only 14 and 13 respectively after their final visit, and Edmund and Lucy are 12 and 10, whereas Eustace and Jill were able to enter Narnia again in ''Literature/TheLastBattle'' at the ages of 16. However, Narnia is probably taking into account the extra fifteen years the Pevensies spent there in addition to their lives on Earth.