My country was made for noble hearts such as yours... no matter how small their bearers be.

After that for many days, without wind in her shrouds or foam at her bows, across a waveless sea, the Dawn Treader glided smoothly east. Every day and every hour the light became more brilliant and still they could bear it.

Ojou ringlets - An easy way to tell if a female character in Japanese media is of high social standing is not to look for the Requisite Royal Regalia, but to look at the front of her head. Specifically, look for two curled locks of hair draping the sides of her face. The rest of the hair may be straight, curly, or anything in-between, but she must have two curls from either the hair directly in front of or directly behind the ear, and falling in front of her shoulders rather than behind, if it is long enough. If she has these, she either is high class or acts like it.

Girlish pigtails - Also known as twin tails, handlebars, or bunches. A type of hairstyle where the hair is gathered into two “tails” on either side of the head. Usually, but not always, left loose; braided tails have a more Granola Girl or Tomboy connotation.

Expository Hairstyle Change - Sometimes when you have to show something important about a character, it’s not appropriate or wise to wheel out the Mr. Exposition and explain what’s going on, and in general the easiest way to do this in visual media is to change the appearance of a character, specifically, their hairstyle, since this can be done cheaply in live-action through the use of wigs or other non-permanent alterations and can be undone just as easily.

Tomboy & Girly Girl -  When the main characters in a show are both females, or if there are only Two Girls to a Team, it almost always leads to a case of this trope. The “Girly Girl” will highly care about her appearance, pursue “girly” interests, and is often (though not always) The Chick. The “Tomboy”, who is often The Big Girl, will be into sports, mechanics, house and/or building construction and/or renovation, or the like

Brainy Brunette - Stereotypically speaking, in fiction, blondes are lacking in intelligence, redheads have short tempers, so, out of the trio, brunettes are all brain.

The Smart Girl - This is the one on The Team that uses their head. As the intelligent one, they come in when the team needs deep analysis, clever tactics, or there’s highly technical work to be done.

Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak - This is a Girly Girl who has some tomboyish qualities or interests. She could have an interest in boys sports, hate the color pink or love boyish colors, not mind getting messy, be a Big Eater, or hate dresses and wear baggy pants.

In-Series Nickname - An In-Series Nickname is not a Fan Nickname, although it can frequently be used as such. Instead, it is a nickname specifically given in-series, not even by the producers alone. It is always regarded as canon.

Book Dumb - Many main characters in children’s shows (and in adult’s shows featuring children) are explicitly shown as doing very badly in school, despite showing themselves to be of at least average intelligence in most other areas of life. This isn’t inconsistency on the part of the writers, though. The kid is just Book Dumb.

And when, after some consultation, the Dawn Treader turned back into the current and began to glide eastward through the Lily Lake or the Silver Sea (they tried both these names but it was the Silver Sea that stuck and is now on Caspian’s map) the strangest part of their travels began. Very soon the open sea which they were leaving was only a thin rim of blue on the western horizon. Whiteness, shot through with faintest color of gold, spread round them on every side […] There seemed no end to the lilies. Day after day from all those miles and leagues of flowers there rose a smell which Lucy found it very hard to describe; sweet — yes, but not at all sleepy or overpowering, a fresh, wild, lonely smell that seemed to get into your brain and make you feel that you could go up mountains at a run or wrestle with an elephant. She and Caspian said to one another, “I feel that I can’t stand much more of this, yet I don’t want it to stop.”

“Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan’s Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise… and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia” 

• in the silver chair it’s confirmed that deep underneath the earth in narnia there’s a molten, fiery abyss world called Bism that is apparently populated and also apparently gemstones are living creatures that live there, and what we understand as diamonds, emeralds, rubies etc. are just the discarded husks of once living creatures
• Jadis is actually not originally from Narnia, but accidentally gets sent there at its creation (making her one of the oldest beings in narnia) and she annihilated all life in her world of origin. she also very much does go to literal actual London and terrorize people. she is like 7 feet tall and can tear iron with her bare hands like it’s taffy.
• Jadis makes it “Always winter and never Christmas”…what the FUCK is her beef with Father Christmas. I know it’s supposed to be like a metaphor or some shit but I’m imagining what exactly the fuck must have happened between them for jadis to specifically want to prevent him from coming to narnia to the extent that her powerful seasonal-change-stopping magic also includes a “fuck that guy in particular” clause.
• like think about it, Jesus is not a thing in narnia, he’s just aslan. and aslan did not get born. ergo, the origin of such a concept as Christmas is the entity Father Christmas. Christmas is not a religious holiday to Narnians it has no symbolic meaning it is just specifically the time of year when Father Christmas fucks around across the landscape giving children gifts, such as very deadly real weapons. There’s no reason for him to do this. It’s just what he does. And Jadis fucking hates it.
• another thing from the magicians nephew that is never brought up again is that Polly and Digory don’t go directly to Narnia, they end up in this intermediate place between the worlds that’s like a forest full of pools leading to other worlds, potentially infinite other worlds, and they end up in Narnia pretty much at random.
• I think it’s also confirmed that Archenlanders were originally from Earth, and are the descendants of a small group of people who traveled to Narnia by accident and got stuck. One wonders why Aslan didn’t whisk them back out. Or why being too old wasn’t a problem for them.
• I think this is early installment weirdness but there are Roman gods in narnia. ?????
• stars are sentient???
• narnia is flat. this is not actually an unresolved thread but I don’t think it’s common knowledge even though in one of the books they literally sail to the edge of the world. caspian specifically thinks it’s super cool that the earth is round

• all of the “humans” in narnia (human narnians, archenlanders, and probably calormenes) are descended from frank and helen, a cab driver and his wife who were accidentally dragged through the pools with digory and polly and jadis, and crowned the first king and queen of narnia by aslan at the creation
• they’re not really that “human” probably because all frank and helen’s children married dryads and naiads and other humanoid magical creatures. this is fine.
• where calormen came from is never specified in the books. in other writings lewis apparently said they split off from archenland. the reason they have a faux middle-eastern culture is never explained.

“Down in Bism we have [gems] alive and growing. There I’ll pick you bunches of rubies that you can eat and squeeze you a cupful of diamond juice” (The Silver Chair, chapter 14).

‘Edmund, who had been looking more and more uncomfortable for the last few minutes, now spoke. 

“Look here,” he said, “I hope I’m not a coward - about eating this food, I mean - and I’m sure I don’t mean to be rude. But we’ve had a lot of queer adventures on this voyage of ours and thinks aren’t always what they seem. When I look in your face I can’t help believing all you say: but then that’s just what might happen with a witch, too. How are we to know that you’re a friend?”‘