Lucy Pevensie

Lucy Pevensie (1932-1949) was the youngest of the four Pevensie children and a queen of Narnia, though a native of Earth. She was curious, playful, and very forgiving.

Through the Wardrobe


Because of the German bombing raids on London the Pevensie children were evacuated to Professor Kirke's House. Stuck inside on a rainy day, the Pevensies decided to explore the old house. The children found a spare room with a large wardrobe inside. While her siblings left the room, Lucy entered the wardrobe. However, upon entering the wardrobe, she soon found herself in a wood that was in the dead of winter. Wandering further into the wood, she came upon a lamp-post, near which she soon encountered her first acquaintance; a faun. The faun introduced himself as Mr. Tumnus, and explained that she had come into the realm of Narnia. Despite Lucy's protests that the others would soon be wondering where she was, Mr. Tumnus insisted that she join him for tea. While they ate and drank, he told her about summer in Narnia and played some Narnian music, which entranced Lucy. Eventually, she roused herself and insisted that she must leave at once, only to find that Mr. Tumnus was crying. Upon being asked why he was upset, he explained that he was a traitor, having gone into the service of the White Witch. He then went on to explain that the Witch was a pretender to the Narnian throne, and it was because of her enchantment that it was always winter and never Christmas. He told Lucy that he had intended to lull her to sleep, so that he could hand her over to the Witch. However, as he was clearly sorry about this plan, Lucy quickly forgave him. Despite the risk of future punishment from the Witch, he helped her to get safely back to the lamp-post, from which she found her own way back to the Wardrobe.

When Lucy arrived back at the house, although she felt she had been gone for hours, only a few moments had passed since she entered the Wardrobe. Lucy's siblings Peter, Susan, and Edmund did not believe her about Narnia, as they are initially unable to enter through the Wardrobe themselves. Their clear disbelief of her account greatly distressed Lucy, who refused to concede that she was making it up. Later, she succeeded in getting into Narnia again, and without her knowledge Edmund secretly followed her. While Lucy visited Mr. Tumnus, Edmund went his own way into the forest and encountered the White Witch, who introduced herself to him as the Queen of Narnia. When heading back to the wardrobe, Lucy met her brother, and was delighted that he had found Narnia as well, sure that the others would now believe her. As they headed back, Lucy explains to Edmund about the White Witch, and he realized that this was who he had been speaking to, but decided to say nothing of it. Upon their return, Lucy asked Edmund to tell Peter and Susan what happened, but he lies to them, saying that he had just been playing along with Lucy's game.

A few days later Mrs. Macready brought several people into the house to see the Professor's antiques, and the children found that wherever they went to get out of her way she followed, forcing them at last into the spare bedroom and then into the Wardrobe - which this time held an entire world. Edmund was quickly caught out by Peter, as he and Susan now know that he was lying about coming to Narnia before, and Peter decides that the four of them will follow wherever Lucy leads. Delighted, she hurries ahead of them to Mr. Tumnus's house.

Finding the house completely ransacked and a note from the White Witch's Secret Police, Lucy insists and succeeds in convincing the others that the four of them must stay in Narnia and try to help Mr Tumnus. Lucy's nature would have led her to stay anyway, but the fact that it was because she, a Daughter of Eve, had come to his house and not been turned over to the Witch was the reason for Tumnus's arrest helped to persuade her siblings.

The Prophesy
Lucy and the Pevensies then were found by Mr Beaver, who led them back to his dam on the river where Mrs Beaver was making dinner and they could all talk safely. After dinner, Mr Beaver told the children about an old prophesy that went When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone / sit on Cair Paravel in throne / the evil time with be over and done. There was also a rhyme about the great lion, Aslan. ''Wrong will be right when Aslan comes in sight. At the sound of his roar sorrows shall be no more. When he bares his teeth winter meets it's death. And when he shakes his mane spring shall come again.'' This was the first time the children had ever head of Aslan. Mr Beaver continued to tell them about the four empty thrones of Cair Paravel, and how he believed each of them were meant to sit in one of them. Just as he told them that he would take them to the place where Aslan was - where an army was gathering - Lucy and everyone else realized that Edmund was gone. Mr Beaver then revealed his suspicion that Edmund was under the influence of the White Witch, and Peter decides to go to Aslan with the beaver and ask him to help get Edmund back.

The Stone Table
On the way to the Stone Table, and Aslan, Lucy was given two gifts from Father Christmas: a cordial that could heal any injury instantly, and a small dagger. Lucy's Cordial was made from the juice of the fire-flower that grows in the mountains of the sun and the bottle was made from diamond, and her dagger was to be used for defense only "at great need".

When they reached their destination, Lucy and the others set eyes on Aslan for the first time. She thought that his paws would be terrible "if he didn't know how to velvet them." It was during this first meeting with the Lion that Lucy and Susan were attacked by a wolf - one of the White Witch's Secret Police. Lucy ran to Peter as Susan swung herself up into a tree until Peter had killed the wolf and earned the title "Sir Peter Wolfsbane" from Aslan.

Walk With Aslan
Upon Edmund's return, Lucy along with the others witnessed that Aslan made a deal with the Witch. Camp was moved from the Stone Table to the Fords of Beruna, and that night neither she nor Susan could sleep. Sneaking out of the tent, the two of them found Aslan leaving the camp, and followed him. Aslan, of course, knew that they were, and asked them why. Susan asked him if they could come with him and he agreed, sadly, but would not tell Lucy what was wrong. Just when they realized that they had walked with him back to the Stone Table, Aslan told them to stay hidden in the bushes, and no matter what they saw not to come out.

Lucy and Susan then witnessed Aslan's torture and death as the Great Lion was murdered by the White Witch on the Stone Table to pay for Edmund's treachery.

After the White Witch and her army left, Lucy and Susan went to the Table and tried to undo Aslan's bonds. They could not, but moments later there were mice chewing through the ropes. The two of them cried and stayed with Aslan until morning.

From Stone to Life
At dawn that day as Lucy and Susan began to walk away there was a crack behind them and they turned to find the Stone Table broken in two and Aslan's body gone. With a roar the Lion came into sight, alive and well. After Aslan lets out a deafening roar, the two girls climb onto his back and the Lion races with them to the White Witch's Castle where Aslan breaths on all of the Narnians whom over the years she had turned to stone - including Mr Tumnas, who was reunited with Lucy at long last. Aslan then led the creatures to join the battle in which Peter and the army were already engaged. Aslan defeated the White Witch, and The Narnians made their way to the long abandoned castle at Cair Paravel.

Queen of Narnia
"To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant"

- Aslan

At Cair Paravel she was crowned by Aslan Her Majesty, Queen Lucy the Valiant as joint-ruler to the throne of Narnia and Empress of the Lone Islands with her siblings, thus fulfilling the ancient prophecy and officially ending the White Witch's reign.

Queen Lucy became a young woman, riding with High King Peter to the aid of Archenland, ensuring that by the year 1014 Archenland and Narnia were in a close alliance. She was described by Prince Corin as being rather like a tomboy, and quite unlike sister, Susan. After fifteen years of reign, known long thereafter as the Golden Age of Narnia, she and the other Pevensies disappeared while hunting the White Stag in the Narnian year of 1015. They had raced their horses past the old lamp-post and entered back into the Wardrobe.

Back in England, not a second of time had passed, and Lucy found herself a young girl once again.

One Year, or 1300
One English year after the events with the White Witch, the four Pevensies were waiting for a train to come and take them back to school after the summer holidays when they felt a strange pull, and looked around to find themselves no longer on the platform. Instead they were on a strange beach, next to a forest, on what they soon found by following the water to be an island. Having no way to get off of it, the four of them traveled farther inland, and soon found the ruin of an old castle. It was not too long after this that Edmund found a gold chess man with one ruby eye - the second one had fallen out that Lucy and the others realized that this was the ruin of their castle, at Cair Paravel. As Narnian time moves differently than the time in our world, while the children were all only one year older, approximately 1300 years had passed in Narnia.

Trumpkin
A few days later the children happened to be near the river that divided the island and the ruin from the mainland when a shout drew their attention in that direction. Out on the river there were two men in a boat, with a dwarf. The men were beating the dwarf up, and spoke of throwing him overboard, still tied. The children - except for Edmund, who had not been present - had found their gifts from Father Christmas and Susan used her bow to shoot an arrow at one of the men. (While Susan's bow and quiver had been with the other gifts, her horn was missing). The other man jumped ship and the children lost no time in getting the boat to shore and untieing the dwarf.

The dwarf's name was Trumpkin, and once Peter questioned him he told the children the whole story of a boy called Caspian. It was Caspian who had Susan's horn, and he had blown it, hoping for help to come, at just the same time as the Pevensies had been pulled away from the railway station. The children realized this during Trumpkin's story, and Lucy thought by the end of it that he was rather dim for not guessing who they were. He didn't believe them at first, but when Edmund beat him in a match and Lucy used her cordial to heal his hand, he came around quickly enough, and soon after he began to lead them to Caspian and his army. When Trumpkin had left them, they had been camped inside Aslan's How, a system of hallways and rooms built into a hill that had formed itself around the Stone Table.

What Lucy Saw
"That's the worst of girls. They never carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something in them."

- Edmund and Lucy

The journey to Aslan's How had barely begun when Lucy was chased by a bear - a dumb bear of course, and not a Talking one - which Trumpkin shot down just before it reached her. Though Peter and the dwarf disagreed about the quickest way to the How, they followed Peter, who found the river Rush where he expected it to be... but deep inside a gorge, with no apparent way across. Just when the two of them had decided to follow the gorge north until it met the Great River and a place where they could cross, Lucy saw Aslan on the other side. The others, however, did not, and Trumpkin didn't think that it was even Aslan who she saw. Upon voting, Edmund sided with Lucy, on account of not believing her about Narnia back when they had first found it a year before; but the others all chose Trumpkin's way, and up the gorge they went. Not long after there was a run in with a Telmarine outpost, forcing them to go back the way they had come. "I suppose we'll have to go right up the gorge again now." "Lu, you're a hero. That's the nearest you've got today to saying I told you so."

- Lucy and Peter

"Can't you see him?"
Lucy woke up during the night and made her way through the nearby trees, finding Aslan there in the clearing. Aslan told her that when the others didn't believe her, she should have followed him alone. He told her to follow him now, to wake the others and tell then that he was there. The catch was, however, that none of the others could see the Lion. Peter agreed to follow - in his sleep. Susan told Lucy she had only been dreaming, and Edmund at first thought that she was seeing things. When she explained that he had said they would not be able to see him, Ed believed her and helped her to wake the others.

Only Edmund wanted to go with her, but Lucy insisted she would go whether they came with her or not, and Peter finally agreed.

Edmund was the first to be able to see Aslan as well, and when Peter finally could he did nothing but apologize. Aslan sent Peter, Edmund and Trumpkin to the How to help the others, but Lucy stayed with Susan, with the Lion.

The Ford of Beruna
''Main article:Second Battle of Beruna

Aslan took the girls to a nearby village, allowing them to ride on his back once again, as they had during the First Battle of Beruna. Once they reached the river, the voice of the river-god spoke, bidding Aslan to rid him of his chains. The bridge that the Telmarines had built was promptly destroyed, and the kings who had been in battle all this time trapped the Telmarine army between the river and the wood, which had awoken at Aslan's call and joined into the battle. When the Telmarines caught sight of the Lion, the battle was done.

Caspian was introduced to Aslan, who said that because he did not feel ready, he would be King of Narnia, under himself and the High King. This conversation was interrupted however by the mice, for Reepicheep had been wounded. Using the diamond bottle given to her by Father Christmas, Lucy healed him, and because the mice had chewed through the ropes that bound Aslan years before on the Stone Table, the Lion restored his tail - it had been sliced off.

A Door in the Air
After everything had been sorted, Aslan had a door set up in the meadow, a door that led to no where. Messengers were sent to tell the scattered Telmarines that if they wished to go to a new home instead of living with the Narnians that they should gather there. Aslan told the people that they of Telmar were descended from seafarers from the very world the Pevensies came from, and that he would, if they wished sent them back to the island from which they came. One man chose this, and walked through the door. Seeing him disappear, the other Telmarines became suspicious, wondering if they were being led to their deaths. Reepicheep offered the example of himself and his mice, but Peter and Susan led the others through the door, explaining to Lucy and Edmund that time was up, and while the older two would never return to Narnia, Aslan had said nothing of Ed and Lucy.

The train station seemed dull after that, and Edmund wished himself back immediately - as he had forgotten his new torch.

The Lone Islands
Another year later during the summer holiday Edmund and Lucy were, much to their dismay, sent to live with their cousin Eustace. Susan was on a trip to America with their parents and Peter was studying with Professor Kirk, so there was little choice. Eustace was a rather nasty boy, and while he was making fun of them in Lucy's bedroom the painting of a rather Narnian-looking ship on the wall came to life and dumped the three of them in the sea. Lucy and Edmund knew at once that they were back in Narnia, and when they had been pulled onto the ship found that it belonged to none other than Caspian; only three years had passed in Narnia while they had been gone. Caspian was on a journey to find the seven missing lords - friend's of his father's whom Miraz had banished. Reepicheep was on the ship as well, with a higher hope than that: to find Aslan's Country - at the very end of the world.

Eustace set himself on being miserable so well that he mostly just made himself sick, but the Dawn Treader soon came into sight of the Lone Islands. Lucy wanted to walk on the island Felimath, which she remembered from being queen, so Caspian sent the ship to meet them on the other side of the island while Lucy, Ed, Caspian, Eustace and Reep walked across on foot. What they had not accounted for was meeting several burly men about halfway who turned out to be slavers and captured all of them. No one told them that Caspian was King of Narnia, but the Pug - the head slaver - took them all to Narrowhaven and Caspian was purchased by a fine looking man who had no use for Pug and his trade. Lucy begged the man not to separate them, but he could not afford to buy all of them and commanded Pug to treat the others well while he had them.

They were taken to a slave market and sold, but Caspian came back just in time to rescue them. The man who had bought him had actually been one of the seven lords, Lord Bern, and Caspian had unseated the governor of the Islands, replaced him with Bern, and outlawed slavery.

The Storm and the Dragon
After three weeks, the Dawn Treader finally set out again and had several days of fine weather. It did not last, however, and soon a storm came up that lasted twelve days. It was so bad that no one had any rest, and no one could cook anything, and when it finally ended they were all exhausted. Land came into sight soon after that, and upon landing they all realized that the ship would have to undergo serious repairs before they could sail on.

Before they could even begin with the repairs, Eustace went missing. A search party was sent out, but no sign of him could be found. It was late one night when a dragon flew over the camp and landed on the beach - between them and the ship. They were watchful for the rest of the night, until Lucy saw that the dragon was crying. Drinian warned that they were crocodile tears, but the dragon shook his head. Reepicheep asked if it understood, and if it would swear friendship with them, when Lucy saw what was wrong with it's leg. A gold bracelet was deeply embedded in the flesh of the dragon's leg, and Lucy used the juice in her diamond bottle, which Caspian had brought aboard the ship at the beginning of the journey. The bracelet was still there, however, and Caspian suddenly realized that it was the arm-band of the Lord Octesian. Through a series of questions Lucy and the others worked out that the dragon was Eustace.

Eustace was so glad to be recognized that he helped with repairs more than almost anyone else - carrying heavy things and flying with timbers, but no one could see how they were going to disenchant him. A few days later, Eustace showed up at the camp, human, with Edmund, and explained the whole story to them. Octesian's arm-ring was hung on a projection from the side of the cliff, and when repairs were finished Caspian named the place Dragon Island.

The Serpent and Deathwater
The next day they found another land, but did not stay long as there was nothing there. A few more days passed, and a serpent wound itself around the Dawn Treader, neither blade nor arrow could pierce it. Reepicheep called out to push, not fight, and they rolled the creature off the stern of the ship, which cracked off and freed them. Finding an island, they decided to harbor in one of the streams until the rain passed.

Up on the island was found a rusted sword, and Lucy was sitting on the remains of a mail shirt, and coins were found, of Narnian currency.

The Accident
In the Narnian year 2555 (English 1949), Lucy, Edmund, and Peter were having dinner with Eustace, Jill Pole, Polly Plummer and Digory were having dinner and reminiscing about their days in Narnia when a Narnian-dressed figure appeared to them as a specter. The figure did not speak, even when Peter demanded as High King that he do so. After the specter disappeared again they all felt sure that something was dreadfully wrong in their beloved country, and they needed to find a way to get there on their own. Remembering the rings that Digory and Polly had used to get to Narnia in the very beginning Peter and Edmund went to London to find them, while the others waited for news. Lucy and the others, except for Susan, got on a train and went to meet them, but never made it.

The next thing Lucy knew was that she and Edmund and Peter and Digory and Polly as well were in a great green field with fruit trees and a door that led to nowhere. Once everything on the other side of the door (which led to the stable on Stable Hill and the battle that was going on there) had been straightened out Eustace and Jill and many others had joined them, and the Kings and Queens and Friends of Narnia stood by as Aslan brought about the end of Old Narnia through the door.

Farewell to the Shadowlands
Then Aslan gave a great roar and called "Further up and further in!" and the everyone ran after him up the field until the children, who all - even Digory and Polly - found that they were children again, realized that this was Narnia, but that it was the real Narnia. The Shadowlands were all that they had seen before. They all ran and ran until they reached Cair Paravel, but a bigger and better Cair Paravel, and met all of their old friends from all of their adventures in the Shadowlands alive and better than ever before, as well as many people of whom they had only heard.

But Lucy was as Aslan said, not quite so happy as he meant her to be. She explained that it was because they (the English Narnians) were so afraid of being sent home. It was then that Aslan explained that there had been a train accident back in England, and that in their world, the children were all dead. This, the real Narnia, was Aslan's country, and a Narnian equivalent of heaven. Lucy was not going to be sent back.

Trivia

 * Lucy Pevensie is portrayed by Georgie Henley in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and as the older Lucy by Rachael Henley.
 * Lucy Pevensie is again portrayed by Georgie Henley in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.