(I was very longwinded, so I have had to split my response into two comments; I apologize for any confusion that may cause.)
Thank you for such a thoughtful comment! I hope my own response does not come off negatively. I am trying my best to be polite, but I know religion and authorial intent are tricky and emotionally-charged subjects, and it's entirely possible that I have phrased things badly.
I never said the apple would make Jadis's rule immortal. I simply think that every world in Lewis's universe may have a garden, and it seems reasonable that their fruits are connected to the worlds in which they grow. One could just as easily argue that all the gardens are the same garden -- that they are, in fact, little pieces of Aslan's country brought forth to touch the more mundane worlds -- and their fruits therefore are eternal and beyond any individual world's influence. But I like the connection of the youth of Narnia's world and the freshness of the garden in the Western Wild, so I choose to think that the fruit is of that world, and its power is part of that world's Deep Magic. Your mileage may, of course, vary. :-)
I think that, since she heads north from the garden rather than east toward Narnia, Jadis doesn't start off obsessing about ruling one small, particular part of her new world. In fact, while I think she wanted to conquer Narnia to spite Aslan and show that his Tree of Protection couldn't stop her, I doubt that the former queen of an entire world intended to stop as the queen of only one country, even though it's the magical heart of the world. I speculate that by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, something may have happened to trap her in Narnia, and the endless winter was as much her revenge for that imprisonment as it was a method of keeping the country under her thumb.
I know Jadis never came back in the books (which are my canon; the movies are only an interpretation of that canon), but I take the hag's statement as true because nobody ever disagrees with her -- not even Lewis in his role as omniscient narrator.
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long comment, part 1
Date: 2009-05-06 02:55 am (UTC)Thank you for such a thoughtful comment! I hope my own response does not come off negatively. I am trying my best to be polite, but I know religion and authorial intent are tricky and emotionally-charged subjects, and it's entirely possible that I have phrased things badly.
I never said the apple would make Jadis's rule immortal. I simply think that every world in Lewis's universe may have a garden, and it seems reasonable that their fruits are connected to the worlds in which they grow. One could just as easily argue that all the gardens are the same garden -- that they are, in fact, little pieces of Aslan's country brought forth to touch the more mundane worlds -- and their fruits therefore are eternal and beyond any individual world's influence. But I like the connection of the youth of Narnia's world and the freshness of the garden in the Western Wild, so I choose to think that the fruit is of that world, and its power is part of that world's Deep Magic. Your mileage may, of course, vary. :-)
I think that, since she heads north from the garden rather than east toward Narnia, Jadis doesn't start off obsessing about ruling one small, particular part of her new world. In fact, while I think she wanted to conquer Narnia to spite Aslan and show that his Tree of Protection couldn't stop her, I doubt that the former queen of an entire world intended to stop as the queen of only one country, even though it's the magical heart of the world. I speculate that by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, something may have happened to trap her in Narnia, and the endless winter was as much her revenge for that imprisonment as it was a method of keeping the country under her thumb.
I know Jadis never came back in the books (which are my canon; the movies are only an interpretation of that canon), but I take the hag's statement as true because nobody ever disagrees with her -- not even Lewis in his role as omniscient narrator.