Good heavens! I do indeed see about the all sorts of reasons --- and one of them would have upset me, too, but it was never (and still isn't) in my head-canon. I have never thought till this very minute, that is, till I read your reply, of that possibility - that the Calormene invasion was the cause or trigger of the Gotterdammerunging. I completely agree that that would be an insufficient cause, and just Wrong.
I had always thought (as a child reading, I mean) that it was just that time was up, all worlds draw to an end, etc, and it was just a bit of ironic bad luck for the Calormenes that they'd gone to all that trouble, conquered but still didn't get to enjoy the fruits of their labour. i.e. if they hadn't bothered, Tirian would still have been the last king of Narnia. More recently, I have been mulling over triggers, for the sake of the story possibilities, but the Calormenes weren't one of them.
One of these days, when life is a little more leisurely (and congratulations on finishing the essay) we maybe can return to this? :)
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Date: 2014-12-15 01:39 pm (UTC)I had always thought (as a child reading, I mean) that it was just that time was up, all worlds draw to an end, etc, and it was just a bit of ironic bad luck for the Calormenes that they'd gone to all that trouble, conquered but still didn't get to enjoy the fruits of their labour. i.e. if they hadn't bothered, Tirian would still have been the last king of Narnia.
More recently, I have been mulling over triggers, for the sake of the story possibilities, but the Calormenes weren't one of them.
One of these days, when life is a little more leisurely (and congratulations on finishing the essay) we maybe can return to this? :)