XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: danhenry@inreach.com   
      
   On 28 Jan 2006 23:49:37 -0800, "Johnny1a"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Depends on just how 'human' the inhuman Jadis is.  There's a bit of   
   >confusion about her background, IMO.  In LWW we're told that her   
   >bloodline (IIRC) came of Lilith's brood, presumably _not_ begat by   
   >Adam.  Exactly what that means isn't quite clear, because in TMN we see   
   >what are apparently her ancestors in that great hall on Charn, and she   
   >referred to 'her grandfather' calling a gathering of the imperial   
   >nobility and murdering them because he suspected them of plotting   
   >rebellion, a la Vlad Tepes, and to her sister and the war for control   
   >of the throne.   
   >   
   >So maybe the 'giants' she comes from are the people of Charn?  They   
   >were certainly bigger than the Children of Adam.  Since the Charnian   
   >royal line had apparently been getting fairly corrupt, if we can trust   
   >Digory and Polly's instinct looking at those figures (and we probably   
   >can, the people who end up in Narnia seem to be perceptive) them maybe   
   >Jadis' father/mother mated with something outside that species?   
   >   
   >Would Jadis be cross-fertile with a Son of Adam?  Who knows besides   
   >Aslan?   
      
   Maybe the entire Charnian nation was a cross-world colony from our   
   world, like the human nations around Narnia. Then they'd all be   
   Lilith-giant cross-breeds.   
      
   Then, again, the whole Lilith thing could just be a bit of propaganda by   
   the Narnian Liberation Front. (Okay, the NLF is a joke, but I don't see   
   how the Beavers could really *know* where Jadis came from.)   
      
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