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Was it specifically a pun on Chaucer, or on the fairly-well-known collective noun for owls? (For which, Chaucer was maybe the creator?) —wwoods 05:43, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
The synopsis leaves out a major section of the story, from the time they leave Narnia for the lands of the North until they find Rilian. It doesn't describe the trip north, including the dumb giants of the near-north, the mountains, the great bridge, and the more intelligent but just as cruel giants of Harfang, the "UNDER ME" mystery, nor the tumble to the Underland, the trip on the sunless sea, and the adventure of entering the city of gnomes to find Rilian. I haven't read the book in some time, but I do remember that much. Really, that's most of the book, I think. All it describes here (in contrastingly great detail) are the events at the very beginning and very end of the book. C'mon, people! In place of just complaining, though, I'll try to throw in a bit to round it out.
I even think they encountered a dragon in their trip north before reaching Harfang, but I can't remember for sure. That is another reference to add to the dragon entry in "List of Narnian creatures" if it is true. -- Cromwellt| Talk 02:57, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
You're getting obssesive, people. I think that spotting any hardly visible connection with Jesus is funny: I myself can't see any true connections between The Silver Chair and Christianity; and quoting John 6:44 is plainly silly, you could find a chapter in Bible corresponding to any cultural fact you can imagine, including Ozzy Osbourne and Bhagavadgita. I guess you could find some similarities between The Silver Chair and Buddhism, Taoism or Grand Chair Manufacturers of Britain, but - what for? Could we just delete the section? Come on, admit it, there are no TRUE parallels, the only one exist in heads of blind and humorless Christian fundamentals. In half of books I know there's a motif of temptation, a struggle between good and evil and so on. Say, Crime and Punishment. And there's a hell lot of Christian parallels in Dostoyevski's work, if you ask me. Delete the section, pleaze, it's becoming far too absurd. 213.17.152.100 18:37, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
There are many connections between The Silver Chair and Christianity, like when Jill is to repeat Aslan's given tasks, we should repeat God's word. You people do not know that C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien had a little contest to see who could write the better christian related novels. AKA Lord of the Rings, and The Silver Chair. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.6.102.69 ( talk) 18:20, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Most of this section is wrong, unless my copy of The Silver Chair is radically different from the one used by the writer here. It is not the GKW who recites the "Under Me" couplet, but the mysterious Knight (Prince Rilian); the Green Witch is not even present at this meeting, so certainly does not display any reluctance to discuss the matter further. -- Captain Pedant| Talk 09:13, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I think the chapter listings for the Chronicles of Narnia books should be removed. I started a discussion at Talk:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe#Chapters-- roger6106 03:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? The phrase Prince Rilian the Disenchanted is never mentioned in the book. Someone change his title at the end of the summary. Thank you. 71.38.213.104 18:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm kind of confused. Is C.S. Lewis condemning or condoning "Parable of the Cave" in the mentioned sequence? I think it's about some people bound in a cave, and a philosopher helps them see the "true" reality. How exactly did Lewis view it? Scorpionman 12:33, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Seriously, is this Sparknotes or Wikipedia? Since when do encyclopedia entries have uncited "commentary" sections. This article needs a dramatic revamp. 68.100.78.157 09:48, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible that the Dawn Treader appears in the book the Silver Chair. In the book Caspian sets sail on a ship to retrace the journey that the Dawn Treader took to the eastern ocean. The book gives very little discription of the ship that Caspian travels on in the Silver Chair and does not specifically say that it is not the Dawn Treader. As many ships will be kept in service for decades and the Dawn Treader was supposed to be brand new at the time of the book the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, it may be very possible that Caspian's ship in the Silver Chair is the Dawn Treader, used to retrace it's original voyage.-- Preator1 ( talk) 17:42, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
The first graf is not quite correct, as Eustace periphratically refers to Edmund and Lucy as "the two Pevensie kids" in the first chapter. Can someone take a crack at getting this info. in the graf? Maybe a rewrite or repositioning is needed. Ellsworth ( talk) 22:17, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
One source for The Chronicles of Narnia is sure to be immensely useful for this and other Narnia book articles. --and for some more articles on Narnia particulars such as characters, peoples, places.
The Companion is an alphabetically ordered enyclopedia with thousands of entries. One of the longest is Plato, or Platonism, etc. (section 7 above).
Skimming this page today, I recall Companion entries that pertain to sections 1, 3-4, 7, and 9. That is, not merely entries for Parliament or Owls, Christianity, Green witch and White witch and Jadis, etc, but entries that pertain in some details mentioned here.
Much that would be "speculation" not permitted here on the part of wikipedia editors may be covered in these articles and attributed to Ford or to his sources.
(to be continued at a main Narnia page) -- P64 ( talk) 19:44, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
"She encourages them to proceed northward to Harfang, the castle of the "Gentle Giants", who she says would be glad to have them at their Autumn Feast."
This seems to parallel Damon Knight's short story (and a Twilight Zone Episode) To Serve Man, published a few years earlier; does anyone know if there is any connection? -- Philculmer ( talk) 18:53, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
There is nothing "structurally incorrect" about a parenthesized sentence, as stated in this diff. One finds them in all sorts of professional writing, even encyclopedias, even WP. Since the parens are causing disagreement, I've removed them. The point is that the sentence does not belong inside the previous sentence; it refers to the entire discussion. -- Elphion ( talk) 14:32, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
Do you have a reference indicating that British English abjures parenthesized sentences? (And I don't mean just someone's style guide.) Many British authors routinely use parenthesized sentences. Even Lewis does. -- Elphion ( talk) 04:17, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks to Christopher for reverting. I see (by reading the comments above more carefully) that he felt that I was deviating from American usage. But I don't believe this is a difference between American and British usage: authors from both countries use parenthetical remarks both within sentences and as free-standing sentences, depending on the context. I repeat, if there is a national usage difference, I'd like to see a reference, as I've never seen this discussed before. -- Elphion ( talk) 05:28, 1 May 2020 (UTC)