Building/Founding of Stone Table

[Steve]

While watching the LWW movie again last week, I realized there is a major gap in my knowledge of Narnian history. When was the Stone Table built?

I'm tempted to think Lewis never got around to depicting it. All the other volumes except MN all take place after LWW (OK, HHB takes place before the last chapter of LWW). I looked it up on the chronology of Narnia and didn't find it.

[jo]

Very interesting .. I'd never thought of it before.

[carol]

[Cuinn]

Now, this is purely my own speculation, but wouldn't it make sense if the Table was erected during a time when the Narnian kingdom needed to know of the Deep Magic? The Deep Magic seems to mirror the Just Law in the Old Testament and the Table the tablets of the "Ten Commandments" or what-have-you. The tablets were given to Moses by God so that His people would know the will of their Lord. Therefore, it'd only make sense that the Table would be erected in a similar manner, when Aslan wanted the Kingdom to know His Law, right?

Again, just speculation. There's nothing solid there whatsoever.

[Leslie]

According to Paul Ford's Companion, "It's history is unknown, and it seems to have existed forever."

[Leslie]

[Erekose]

[Stanley Anderson]

My theory (from another thread too) was that just as things dropped into the ground began growing at the creation of Narnia, perhaps in some kind of wierd time ward the miniature Stone Henge-like model from the movie This is Spinal Tap ended up on the ground and grew into the Stone Table:-)

By the way, that reminds me that I always wondered why Andrew Ketterly didn't start growing into a Ketterly tree or Ketterly bush when the talking animals tried to plant him at the creation scene. Can you imagine Lucy later coming into Narnia for the first time and seeing a tree with a bunch of snow-topped bobbing Ketterly heads peering down at her from its branches after seeing the lamppost? -- brrr...what a nightmare image -- I guess Lewis was wise not to add that in after all:-)

--Stanley

[Monica]

[Stanley Anderson]

[King Edmund]

Time warps. I get a headache just thinking about it. Planted or unplanted the others(humans,charnians like the witch) didn't grow any different either. (from our world) Mabee if it wasn't able to talk or move it would grow into something bigger and if you were human you didn't. If this makes any sense to you guys I'll be surprised. I find it hard to oraganize my ideas to make anyone understand them when it comes to debateing.