The same cross-bar is taken into the new world that would become Narnia, and grows into the full lamp post encountered by Lucy Pevensie many years later. Counsell also made a cameo appearance as a lamb in The Last Battle.
Swinton's performance won particular acclaim among fans and critics. BBC film critic Stella Papamichael wrote:. Jadis is viewed as significantly more psychopathic and malevolent, possessing an instinctively violent streak and the expressed disregard for the lives of others - during the Battle of Beruna, she declares that no prisoners are to be taken simply since she has no interest in taking any.
She is also hinted to have a cynical, dry sense of humour. In a departure from the novel, Nikabrik and his fellow conspirators a hag and werewolf use the White Witch's retrieved wand to conjure an apparition of Jadis within a mystical wall of ice. She tries to coax Caspian and then Peter into offering her a drop of their blood so she can come back to life, promising to lend her powers to their fight against King Miraz once she is made whole. However, Edmund shatters the ice, and the apparition vanishes.
Swinton reprised White Witch again in the 20th Century Fox film adaptation of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , only as a manifestation of the Dark Island preying on Edmund's fears, a mental test that Edmund overcomes as he manages to kill the Dark Island's sea serpent, a manifestation of his fear.
The apparition disappears, screaming in defeat. Did you honestly think you could save the human traitor? You are giving me your life and saving no one. So much for love. Tonight, the Deep Magic will be appeased, but tomorrow, we will take Narnia forever! Note that the White Witch, being an archetype from a very successful book, could quite possibly exist in the Dreaming.
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Real Name: Jadis. Marital Status: Unrevealed. Known Relatives: Sister Name unrevealed, deceased. Group Affiliation: Ruler of Narnia, and commander of the winter creatures. This world was an old one - the sun was much bigger and redder than our own and looked as if it was nearing the end of its life. Jadis said that it had been like this for 'hundreds of thousands of years' 5. Jadis was born into the royal family and in Charn this meant that she had magic in her blood. She and all her family were powerful enchanters.
For example, she knew a spell, which she called 'blasting', that would turn an object to dust, and she wasn't afraid to use it on people - she had no concern for the feeling of others and would kill people if it suited her own purposes or even if she was just angry, which she appears to have been most of the time. Jadis's family knew of the existence of the ultimate spell, which they named the 'Deplorable Word'. The spell would kill all life on the planet except the person who uttered it.
They all agreed never to try and find out the words of this spell. Jadis, on the other hand, decided that this could be used as the ultimate weapon, so she subjected herself to many hardships and eventually found it.
Jadis's sister became Queen of Charn. Jadis challenged her and there was civil war. Jadis's armies were defeated by those of her sister and eventually only Jadis was left, standing to face her sister in defeat.
She turned the defeat to a triumph in her own eyes by using the Deplorable Word, killing everybody else, including all animal and plant life, leaving her as the sole occupant and ruler of the world. Since Jadis could not travel between worlds and there was nothing left for her to do in Charn, she placed a stasis spell on herself so that she would sit unmoving and unchanged in her palace while the world crumbled around her until someone came to wake her 6.
The spell also preserved the palace to some extent. A long time passed - we don't know how long, but it is implied that it was thousands of years. Eventually a boy and a girl from our world, Digory and Polly, arrived by chance using magic rings. In an act of stubborn bravado, Digory activated the spell to release the Queen from her stasis.
Jadis insisted on being brought by Digory and Polly to our world. Arriving in London in the s, she found that she was not respected as a queen but was assumed to be a circus performer and ridiculed. She found herself unable to do magic, but set out to take over the world anyway. She caused mayhem on the streets of London and would undoubtedly have killed many people, but Digory was able to trap her with his magic ring and transport her away from our world.
This section of the book is heavily influenced by E Nesbit's children's book The Story of the Amulet in one chapter, the Queen of Babylon is brought from the past into modern London, causing multiple deaths. Digory tried to return Jadis to Charn, but accidentally took her to the world of Narnia instead, along with a few people from London and a horse. They arrived just after the world had been created, but before the creation of the sun, stars or any form of life, so the travellers got to witness most of the creation of Narnia by the lion-god Aslan.
Jadis's first act was to try to kill Aslan by throwing the lamppost crossbar at him. It struck him on the head but had no effect. She then fled into the west. Here she discovered a magical tree whose fruit granted the gift of immortality. She ate an apple from the tree and became immortal, but the side effects of this were that all pleasure in life was taken away from her, and her skin turned deathly white.
With Aslan's help, Digory planted a fruit from the same tree in Narnia that quickly grew into a second tree. Due to her condition, Jadis could not stand to be anywhere near this Silver Tree, so it kept her away from Narnia for many centuries. Some unspecified time later given in Lewis's notes as years , the tree died and Jadis invaded Narnia, taking it over and styling herself as Queen of Narnia. She used her magic to establish a permanent winter - 'Always Winter but never Christmas'.
This remained until the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , when her reign came to an end and she was killed in battle by Aslan himself. While this biography is fully consistent with The Magician's Nephew , there's one short section in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that seems to contradict it. In a confrontation between Jadis and Aslan, she says to Aslan:.
This paints a different picture of Jadis - she is not just a renegade at loose in Narnia, she is some sort of an employee of the gods that control the world, with a task to do. It's hard to reconcile this view with the story as told in The Magician's Nephew. It's possible that Jadis made some sort of agreement with Aslan or his father the Emperor soon after the events of the book, soon enough to still be considered 'the very beginning'. It seems more likely, however, that Lewis just forgot this section in the four years between writing the two books.
Jadis's name is intended to be pronounced 'Jay-diss'. She has already played a character quite similar to the White Witch when she played Freya in The Huntsman: Winter's War , but it's just a suggestion. I will probably think of more realistic suggestions as we get closer to production.
I also wonder if she'd want to take on another ice queen role after already playing one previously, but from what I can tell at least from Wikipedia's summary of Winter's War Jadis is a pretty different character.
If the actress had straight black hair she would better resemble the Paulinr Baynes illuatrations. We don't have to assume that Jadis is white; after all, she is of a different race than the Narnian humans.
PM me to join the Search for the Seven Swords! Co-founder of the newly restored Edmund Club! Find it on the Talk About Narnia Forum! My concern would be that if she was anything other than Caucasian, there would be all the obnoxious racism concerns. Tilda Swinton is great, but she did not come close, I'm afraid. I do strongly believe that whom ever is cast to play Jadis HAS to be very physically frightening. An actress of shocking height and physical strength. That's how I view Jadis: She's not human.
She's not a woman. She's a monster. In a very beautiful human form. I feel that previous actresses who played Jadis were charming and scary in their ways, but were never really intimidating enough to feel like a plausible threat to Aslan's followers. Or worse yet, their portrayals made Aslan Himself less impactful as a character. In the book, Aslan is the only being that frightens Jadis.
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