Planets' Names

[Glorfindel of Gondolin]

I'm half way through Out of the Silent Planet and was wondering if we ever find out what the English names of the planets Perelandra and Malacandra are. It's not really important, I'm just curious. Malacandra could be Venus (I think it's gravity is less than Earth's), Mars, or Pluto, since Lewis ruled out Mercury because of the cool climate. It seems like Pluto would be too cold by the same logic. If the names aren't give flat out, which planets do you think they are? By the way, the book is great.

[Lara]

I was under the impression that Malacandra was Mars and Perelandra was Venus.

[Messenger_of_Eden]

Lara's right I think....

[The Pfifltrigg]

Not to spoil things, but the names of all but Pluto are given in That Hideous Strength, I believe.

Have patience, and keep reading.

[Stanley Anderson]

Awww...come on, L and MoE, would you give the ending away to someone who was only halfway through watching The Sixth Sense too? Not that big a deal I suppose, but it is a moment of discovery for Ransom (and the reader) later in the book.

--Stanley

[Bill]

[Stanley Anderson]

[Glorfindel of Gondolin]

[Messenger_of_Eden]

[Stanley Anderson]

[Glorfindel of Gondolin]

[The Pfifltrigg]

My dad read them to us (he had four kids--- all now "grown") before any of us actually read them. So I knew what to expect, more or less, when I first picked them up myself a few years later.

[alliebath]

[Stanley Anderson]

[alliebath]

Thank you, Stanley, I had missed that…



Cosmography would be the mapping of the planets in the circles, centred upon earth—cosmology would be the explantions as to why they are like they are and what that means.