The Silver Chair




 * You may be looking for the item, the Silver Chair

'''Eustance Scrubb, who had entered Narnia before with his cousins Lucy and Edmund Pevensieve, returns to the mystical world with his friend Jill Pole. They are given a mission from the Great Lion in Aslan's country, and then are blown into Narnia itself.

NARNIA...where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans, where a prince is put under an evil spell... and where the adventure begins.

Eustace and Jill escape from the bullies at school through a strange door in the wall, which, for once, is unlocked. It leads to the open moor... or does it? Once again Aslan has a task for the children, and Narnia needs them. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, they pursue the quest that brings them face-to-face with the evil Witch. She must be defeated if Prince Rilian is to be saved.

Enter this enchanted world countless times in The Chronicles of Narnia

-from opening page of The Silver Chair 50th year editition.

Plot
Eustace Scrubb in now at school. Seeing a girl being bullied he rans with her into the wood. There he reveals to Jill Pole his secret and his desire to return to Narnia. After falling from the cliff, Eustace is blown to Narnia by Aslan's breath. Meanwhile Jill stays behind and meets Aslan. He tells her that they were called into Narnia to find find the lost prince Rilian, Caspian X's only son. Aslan tels her four signs which she can go by to find him.

"These are the signs by which I will guide you in your quest. First; as soon as the boy Eustace sets foor in Narnia, he will meet and old and dear friend. He must greet that friend at once; if he does, you will both have good help. Second; you must journey out of Narnia to the North till you come to the ruined city of the ancient giants. Third; you shall find a writing on a stone in that ruined city, and you must do what the writing tells you. Fourth; you will know the lost prince (if you find him) by this, that he will be the first person you have met in your traves who will ask you to do something in my name, in the name of Aslan."

- Aslan

After this Jill is also blown into Narnia.

Jill asks Eustace if he recognises a former friend, as this is the first sign, but he fails to do so. After talking with Trumpkin the dwarf Eustace is shocked to hear that Caspian is now an old man, and is traveling to Aslan's country to seek help from the Great Lion as to who should king after him.

Jill and Eustace are wellcomed by the court but have to steal themselfes out at night on the order of Glimfeather, an owl. He tells them that no one is allowed to go looking for the prince now, because many brave and noble Narnians tryed to find him and none of them ever came back. One of the Owls tells them the story of Prince Rilian, after which they are carried by the owls to a Marshwiggle on the borders of Ettinsmoor. The Marshwiggle, named Puddleglum agrees to come and help. They continue to travel untill they meet a lady dressed in green, who tells them that Harfang would be a good place to go. Upon reaching it they enter the castle, but next day realise that the giants intend to cook them and eat them for their autumn feast. Before escaping they realise that Harfang is built upon an ancient city, which is the second sign. They also notice a large stone with the words "Under Me". They just manage to escape, but then they drop acidentaly down a large hole. This is, as Puddleglum points out, still following the signs as the third was they had to do what the writing said. Down this hole they find a huge world, called Underland. They are taken by about one hundred of the workers to see the Queen of Underland. At first the gnomes that are taking them along decide to lock them up, but a human who lives in a more "real" room, invites them up. He tells them how the "Queen's Grace" saved him from many enchantments, but that he was still under one. He told them not on any acount to unbind him from the chair that he would be tied to, the Silver Chair, claiming that he would first become a wild man, and kill his friends, and then turn into a serpent. He also told them that the Queen was planning to make him King of a world in Overland, by breaking out after digging with an army of Earthmen to take it. The children and the Marsh-wiggle hide so the gnomes do not spot them when they came to bind the man, and come out of hiding to see the young man bound to the Silver Chair. He soon goes into a fit, and begins pleading them to release him. "Quick! I am sane now. If only I could get out of this enchanted chair, it would last. But every night they bind me, and so every night my chance is gone. But you are not enemies. I am not your prisoner. Quick! Cut these cords."

- Rilian So the man keeps going on in this way until Jill says she can "hardly bare it" finally, the prisoner says "...by Aslan I charge you-"

- Rilian

They realise it is the sign, and wonder whether they should let a maniac loose on themselves, finally they decide to and the man leaps up and grabs his sword, but instead of kiling them, he destroys the Silver Chair hacking it into bits. Afterward the man turns and thanks them, and tells them that he is Prince Rilian and that he is the son of Caspian X. But before then can think out any sort of plan the Lady of the Green Kirtle enters. She then began putting them all under a spell by putting some green stuff on a fire. This makes thinking difficult and convinces all the humans that there is no world but Underland. However Puddleglum resists for longer, and stamps out the fire. The Queen, losing her temper turned herself into the horrible green serpent that killed Rilian's mother, and trys to kill Rilian. Rilian defends himself and hacks off the snake's head, along with Puddleglum and Eustace. After a while they realise that the whold of Underland is caving in, so they try to escape. They are worried about the level of the water which is rising all the time. At first they think that the gnomes are going to fight them, but when they realsie that the gnomes are friendly, (they are no longer under any spell) they cary on. The Prince tells them that they will have to go up the tunnel that the Queen was going to use to invade a country in Overland. They ride up this and finally reach the end, where there is only a few feet of soil inbetween that and the land above. They come out and quickly take Rilian to see Caspian X who had seeen Aslan, and when he did Aslan told him to go back and there he would find his son. They meet but, only seconds after seeing each other after all those years Caspian X dies. Aslan comes and takes Eustace and Jill away to the country where they started. Here Caspian comes back to life and greets Eustace, Aslan and Jill. He is sent back into Eustace's world along withe Eustace and Jill, who give the bullies at the school such a fright and hiding that the head rings up the police with stories about a Lion and Lunatics. The end result is that the head is fired and the bullies expelled. Meanwhile Caspian and Aslan have gone back.