Narnia Map!

[gmtaslash]

Um, so, it's done and it's here:

http://www.box.net/shared/l0b4f0tcno

I'll be posting the long justifications of all the cartographic decisions I made later; all I can say right now is that please, if you spot anything that contradicts the books, don't hesitate to tell me so I can fix the map and make it as accurate as possible.

If you have friends in Narnia fandom who need a map that makes some kind of sense to use in their ficcing, please pass the link on. Hopefully we can thus all forget Walden Media ever made a map. I hope.

Comments

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

I never actually got round to joining narnia_fiction, so now. I hasn't pimped it anywhere, actually. Perhaps I was expecting it to spread around teh intarwubz by osmosis? I dunno....

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Trojie that is MAGNIFICENT

I pimped it for you on narnia_fiction.

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Angel.

*constantly worried* Does it look accurate? TELL me if there's something wrong!

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Looks accurate although I think we still have the weird PC-battle problem. Don't the Narnians chase the Telmarines to the river? Why would the Telmarines retreat either to the Rush or the Great River if their castle is on the same side of both of them as is the How?

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Because C. S. Lewis DID NOT THINK THIS THROUGH.

My spur-of-the-moment, made up this second theory is that they were camping over the river from the How - not basing themselves in Miraz's castle. Course, this is directly in contravention of The Film, but then this map is book based. A river isn't a *bad* defensive line if the other side is much smaller and you hold the only bridge, which you've built over the only ford.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Good plan! I like that explanation.

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Other thing is, Miraz's castle to the How would also be an intolerably long supply line.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Betcha they were based at the town of Beruna!

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

What side of the river was the town of Beruna on? I'm betting it was on the opposite side to the How, because otherwise why would the Ford be such a big deal?

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Let's arbitrarily say it is!

[sedri.livejournal.com]

I second that. Making canon fit neatly sometimes requires a bit of cutting-and-gluing of the puzzle pieces.

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Don't you just love a good arbitrary decision about someone else's imaginary world?

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Arbitrary decisions that are right are the best ones, of course...

From Prince Caspian:
"In a few minutes all Miraz's followers were running down to the Great River in the hope of crossing the bridge to the town of Beruna and there defending themselves behind ramparts and closed gates."

I love the map - it's terrific, and your mountain ranges and distances make very good sense. The only thing I can see to quibble about is Cair Paravel's island - the channel between it and the mainland is only supposed to be 30-40 yards wide at the narrowest point, but it looks about a couple of miles out to sea there. ;-)

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Okay, we must have assimilated that bit of info without remembering it. Go us.

You make a good point there - I will see if I can jiggle it closer through the magic of CorelDraw 12. The scale of the map was one thing that gave me pause for thought, I must admit - Narnia's described in detail and is tiny, but the other regions have almost no features and yet are huuuuuge.

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Well, Calormen is mostly desert. Huge and largely featureless is traditional for that. There wouldn't be a heck of a lot to look at on Ettinsmoor either.

And everything else you just leave blank as currently unexplored and write in "here be Dragons".

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

This is of course a point :)

And I have to ask, Muridae as in the family of molluscs?

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Muridae as in the family of molluscs?

A bit more mammalian than that, but you're heading in the right direction. The inspiration for the name came from here:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565924192/colophon.html

though it's a good long while since I touched Perl. But basically, it's me being an AnonyMouse. :-)

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was thinking of the Muricidae. I have snails on the brain :)