Evil creatures, origins of

[Mavramorn]

[Erekose]

[A#minor]

I think the White Witch summoned them from other worlds.
Yep, that's my theory. Simple and concise.

[Dick Devine]

I suspect they are corruptions of what they once were, in the same way as orcs and trolls. Hags are perhaps corruptions of what were once the spirits of trees and streams? Other evil creatures in some of the books are more obscure- it is not impossible that the withc had bred many. The dwarves and wolves were definitely "gone bad" at least to a certain extent were they not. Would also agree that the witch probably had powers to summon them from elsewhere- she had been in several other world herself to judge from her outburst on the streets of London.

Suspect Lewis just left it to us to imagine, deliberately.

[agingjb]

[carol]

Lewis did write to a child that they might invent what happened between books, so I expect he would be happy for readers to explain such things.
Or maybe he knew that Erekose would come along one day...

[agingjb]

I admit to having a problem with the inherently evil races that both Tolkien and Lewis placed in their fiction.

In Lewis we are told of a race on "Sulva", the moon, that is clearly fallen, but has, apparently, no access to grace. Again Tolkien suggests that Orcs were originally Elves taken by Morgoth and irresistibly tormented into evil.

But this is in fiction. As the Lady of Venus remarked "if I try to make a story ... I do not know how to make it about Maledil ..."

[Puddleglee]

[Mornche Geddick]

[Tumnus's Books]

[rofe408]

When Aslan beathed on the animals, giving them the power of speech & "enobling" them, he cautioned them to behave or else their powers of speech would be lost & they'd turn back into lesser beasts. I suppose, then, if they could fall that far, they could fall even further into evil.