Posted: January 13, 2000 at 06:28:35: by Gandalf
: Is it possible that Jardis, the Queen of Charn, was the same entity as the White Witch and the Emerald Lady? I know that in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis states that the Witch's name was Jarvis, and that in Prince Caspian one of the Black Dwarfs says that he thinks that the Witch will return again.I think this was supposed to be both insinuated, and unconfirmed.
Jarvis ate the apple from the tree of life, and became immortal. I assume though that like the elven immortality, she could be slain. So what happened to her? I doubt that Lewis, like Tolkien, would have just given up on what was an important character in the Narnia books. After all, she was evil incarnate in Narnia. Also, Aslan said that she wouldn't have what she wanted from the apple, and that because she selfishly took it for her own, she would find her hopes cheated. So what was the retribution? Did she become bone white, and become the White Which afterwards?
We will never know I guess.
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