Line #6 YMMV/TheSilverChair


1	* AluminumChristmasTrees: The chapter 'A Parliament of Owls' appears to be named in accordance with the owls' name for their secret meeting, but it's also the real life term for a group of owls.
2	* CompleteMonster: [[TheSpook The Lady of the Green Kirtle]], or the Green Lady, is a powerful [[WickedWitch witch]] with a specialty in MindManipulation, a desire to rule over Narnia, and not even an ounce of morality. After arriving in the country, she assassinates the beloved queen. When Prince Rilian comes to avenge his mother, the Green Lady captures him and {{mind rape}}s him for six years until he is nothing more than her brain-dead servant and forced husband-to-be. In addition, she performs the same dark magic on gnomes from the Deep Realm, forcing thousands of otherwise good people into being her slaves who are allowed to do nothing but build her underground castle for years. When the heroes arrive in Narnia to try to rescue the Prince, she misdirects them into a pack of [[ToServeMan man-eating]] giants, fully intending for the three heroes, [[WouldHurtAChild two of whom are children]], to be brutally murdered and eaten. After the heroes manage to escape and confront her in her lair, she attempts to {{brainwash\|ed}} them too, only to [[VillainousBreakdown go ballistic]] when the hypnosis fails, at which point she tries to kill them and thousands of gnomes and other innocent creatures living underground.
3	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Camilla Power's portrayal of Jill in the BBC adaptation makes her the favourite out of the various child actors who starred in the series. As such, Jill Pole also appears to have been aged up. In the book, she was ''not'' a teenager. While her age wasn't explicitly mentioned in the book proper, the timeline that CS Lewis later established set Jill Pole at nine years old during the events of the book. By contrast, Camilla Power was 14 years old during the time of filming.
4	* EpilepticTrees: What exactly the Lady of the Green Kirtle ''is''. At first she was said to be another witch along the lines of the White Witch. Then we found out in ''The Magician's Nephew'' that the White Witch was the only survivor of a destroyed universe, so the Lady of the Green Kirtle couldn't have come from there. So who is she and where did she come from? For the movies, WordOfGod says that she is the source of the green mist added in the film version of ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', which was meant to foreshadow her role in the next story.
5	* {{Fanon}}: Some fans seem to think that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is actually Jadis the White Witch reborn. This mostly comes from a mistake in a manual (''[[GodNeverSaidThat not]]'' written by Lewis himself, making it WordOfSaintPaul at best) that describes Jadis as being in this book. Likewise Barbara Kellerman played both Jadis and the Green Lady in the BBC adaptations--but this is ignoring that several other actors also doubled up to play different roles across the adaptations (for instance, Kellerman also played the hag in ''Prince Caspian''--three witches in one). It doesn't help that some characters theorise that the Lady of the Green Kirtle is ''[[VillainousLegacy similar]]'' to Jadis.
6	* OlderThanTheyThink: The Lady of the Green Kirtle is often called the Green Lady, the Green Witch and the Emerald Witch, despite none of those appellations appearing in the book's text. However, the last nickname is actually semi-official: the back cover synopses of each of the Collier Books editions of ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' (first published in 1970) do make reference to Rilian's escape from the "Emerald Witch"'s underground kingdom.
7	* ValuesDissonance:
8	** It's not by far the only thing he bashes [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Experiment House]] for, nor even close to what is considered worst about it, but Lewis seems to have problems with secular and gender-integrated education. It's also likely shaped by his own negative experiences in a boarding school as a kid.
9	** The big sign to the heroes that something is off about [[spoiler:the brainwashed Rilian]] is that he's so submissive towards a woman. Even more gratingly, ''Jill'' is the one who points it out, saying people in our world don't think much of men like that.
10	*** Then again, while being [[CourtlyLove in love with and obedient to]] a lady you consider wise is quite knightly, being completely on board with your beloved's EvilPlan, never even trying to question it, and amusedly wondering ''how hilarious it will be when you surprise people and slaughter them'' is not. The knight in question frankly seems to have left his brains at home in this scene, which is never commendable. Possibly justified by the fact that [[spoiler: the guy ''was'' brainwashed!]]
11	* ValuesResonance:
12	** The fact that the teachers allow such bullying to happen at the school is treated as a bad thing in the text. Despite SchoolBullyingIsHarmless enduring for decades after this was written, this is quite telling.
13	** The book also averts DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale, depicting [[spoiler:Rilian's]] seduction, abduction, brainwashing, and forced marriage as clearly horrific.

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