XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   Christopher Kreuzer wrote:   
      
   > nystulc@cs.com  wrote:   
   > > atsarisborn@hotmail.com wrote:   
   > >> I believe her title of "Empress" dates from her succession as last   
   > >> heir to the dynasty of Charn. That Charn has ceased to exist makes no   
   > >> difference -- royalty cling to titles. (The Kings of England claimed   
   > >> to be Kings of France well into the 18th century. The present King of   
   > >> Spain keeps Jerusalem and Athens among his titles.)   
   > >   
   > > She is "Queen of Narnia" and "Empress of the Lone Islands, Etc."  The   
   > > distinction is clear.  She is an "Empress" because she controls a   
   > > territory larger a single Kingdom -- because she controls more than   
   > > merely Narnia.  It does not say "Empress of Charn."   
   >   
   > And in any case, the history of Charn (as we are told in 'The Magician's   
   > Nephew') shows that Jadis was battling her sister for control of Charn,   
   > and was actually losing. So her sister probably had more right to call   
   > herself Empress of Charn. Though in the end Jadis could call herself   
   > Empress of Charn, it was, literally, a rather empty gesture.   
      
   On Charn, Jadis could make objects and people fragment into dust.  Why   
   didn't she dust her sister, or convert the ground in front of her into dust   
   to make a hole?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)