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10 unusual facts about The Silver Chair


Geoffrey Russell

Russell appeared in a number of films and television dramas, including the BBC children's series 'Grandad', alongside Clive Dunn, and in the 1990 BBC adaptation of The Silver Chair, when he appeared as the elderly King Caspian.

Lady of the Green Kirtle

The Lady of the Green Kirtle, also called Queen of Underland and Queen of the Deep Realm, is the main antagonist in The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis.

Mick Walter

He has appeared in the BBC's adaptations of four of The Chronicles of Narnia: in 1988, he played the White Witch's dwarf in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in 1989, he played Trumpkin in Prince Caspian, and again in 1990 in The Silver Chair.

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The Silver Chair, a novel by C. S. Lewis, part of the Chronicles of Narnia series

The Silver Chair

Mark Gordon and Douglas Gresham along with Vincent Sieber, the Los Angeles based director of The C.S. Lewis Company, will serve as producers and work with The Mark Gordon Company on developing the script.

The Silver Chair is dedicated to Nicholas Hardie, the son of Colin Hardie, a member of the Inklings with Lewis.

Puddleglum - A Marsh-wiggle who helps Jill and Eustace on their quest.

Jill and Eustace are flown to the marshes on the northern edge of Narnia where they are partnered with the delightfully gloomy but stalwart Marsh-wiggle Puddleglum, who serves as a guide, hunter for food in the wilderness, and down-to-earth voice of reason.

The worst of the bullies are expelled and the incompetent headmistress given a new job—failing as a school inspector, she is eventually elected to Parliament.

Instead, they are summoned by Master Glimfeather to a Parliament of his fellow talking owls (a pun on Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, but also a nod towards the use of the word "parliament" as a collective noun for owls).


Castleton, Derbyshire

The local underground caves were used as the filming location for the underworld, ruled by the evil Lady of the Green Kirtle (played by Barbara Kellerman), in the 1990 BBC adaptation of The Silver Chair (one of the Narnia books written by C.S. Lewis).

Narnian Centaurs

Through the Narnia series, only three centaurs are named: Glenstorm in Prince Caspian, Cloudbirth in The Silver Chair, and Roonwit in The Last Battle.