Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
Place

Lantern Waste

Also known as Lantern Wood, the Lamp-post, Lamp-post

A forested region in western Narnia centered on the Lamp-post. Lucy first meets Mr Tumnus here, and the site reaches back to the country’s creation.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

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Primary sources

In the chronicles

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The Magician's Nephew8 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter VII · paragraph 25…s were spotted with foam. It galloped madly up to the front door, missing the lamp-post by an inch, and then reared up on its hind legs. The hansom crashed into the lamp-post and shattered into sever…Open passage →
  2. Chapter VIII · paragraph 1… she stretched up her right arm and wrenched off one of the cross-bars of the lamp-post. If she had lost some magical powers in our world, she had not lost her strength; she could break an iron bar a…Open passage →
  3. Chapter IX · paragraph 3…s brains." She was poising in her hand the iron bar that she had torn off the lamp-post, ready to throw it. Somehow no one doubted that she would be a very good shot.Open passage →
  4. Chapter IX · paragraph 23…at, even he began to take an interest. It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post, about three feet high but lengthening, and thickening in proportion, as they watched it; in fact growing just …Open passage →
  5. Chapter XII · paragraph 65…eating four each and planting the ninth; for, as he said, "if the bar off the lamp-post turned into a little light-tree, why shouldn't this turn into a toffee-tree?" So they dibbled a small hole in t…Open passage →
  6. Chapter XIV · paragraph 17…aid Polly, "he might send someone else. He's so excited about the bar off the lamp-post growing into a lamp-post tree and he thinks----"Open passage →
  7. Chapter XV · paragraph 8…he Cabby were gone, everything was exactly as they had left it. There was the lamp-post, with one arm missing; there was the wreck of the hansom cab; and there was the crowd. Everyone was still talki…Open passage →
  8. Chapter XV · paragraph 32…. The boys married nymphs and the girls married wood-gods and river-gods. The lamp-post which the Witch had planted (without knowing it) shone day and night in the Narnian forest, so that the place w…Open passage →
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe9 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 26In about ten minutes she reached it and found that it was a lamp-post. As she stood looking at it, wondering why there was a lamp-post in the middle of a wood and wondering what to …Open passage →
  2. Chapter II · paragraph 12… land of Narnia," said the Faun, "where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea. And you--you have come from the wild woods of the west…Open passage →
  3. Chapter II · paragraph 51…not now that I know you. But we must be off at once. I'll see you back to the lamp-post. I suppose you can find your own way from there back to Spare Oom and War Drobe?"Open passage →
  4. Chapter IV · paragraph 32… that lamp?" She pointed with her wand and Edmund turned and saw the same lamp-post under which Lucy had met the Faun. "Straight on, beyond that, is the way to the World of Men. And now look the …Open passage →
  5. Chapter IV · paragraph 34…e is between those two hills. So next time you come you have only to find the lamp-post and look for those two hills and walk through the wood till you reach my house. You had better keep the river o…Open passage →
  6. Chapter VI · paragraph 24…'t we to be bearing a bit more to the left, that is, if we are aiming for the lamp-post." He had forgotten for the moment that he must pretend never to have been in the wood before. The moment the wo…Open passage →
  7. Chapter VII · paragraph 41…s which the White Witch had pointed out to him when he parted from her at the lamp-post that other day. And then between them, he thought, must be her palace, only a mile off or less. And he thought …Open passage →
  8. Chapter XVI · paragraph 36…both tumbled off. Then with a roar that shook all Narnia from the Western lamp-post to the shores of the Eastern sea the great beast flung himself upon the White Witch. Lucy saw her face lifted t…Open passage →
  9. Chapter XVII · paragraph 39…re of paces they all remembered that the thing they had seen was called a lamp-post, and before they had gone twenty more, they noticed that they were making their way not through branches but th…Open passage →
The Horse and His Boy1 cited passage⌄
  1. Chapter XIII · paragraph 20… what robbers or wild beasts stirred in the great Western forests between Lantern Waste and Telmar. And all this day he had hardly left his pool, even to eat or drink, for he knew that great events w…Open passage →
Prince Caspian3 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter VII · paragraph 51… think, the answer is likeliest to come. But there are two others. One is Lantern Waste, up-river, west of Beaversdam, where the Royal Children first appeared in Narnia, as the records tell. The othe…Open passage →
  2. Chapter VII · paragraph 63…rd it than he was eager to be off. It was arranged that he should run for Lantern Waste while Trumpkin made the shorter journey to the river-mouth. After a hasty meal they both set off with the ferve…Open passage →
  3. Chapter XIII · paragraph 14…loved and royal brother Edmund, sometime King under us in Narnia, Duke of Lantern Waste and Count of the Western March, Knight of the Noble Order of the Table, to whom we have given full power of det…Open passage →
The Last Battle6 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 1In the last days of Narnia, far up to the west beyond Lantern Waste and close beside the great waterfall, there lived an Ape. He was so old that no one could remember when he had …Open passage →
  2. Chapter II · paragraph 1… weather. It was a low, thatched building not far from the Eastern end of Lantern Waste and some way above the meeting of the two rivers. He loved to live there simply and at ease, away from the stat…Open passage →
  3. Chapter II · paragraph 5…said he had seen him with his own eyes, a great way off, by moonlight, in Lantern Waste. Then came that dark Man with the beard, the merchant from Calormen. The Calormenes care nothing for Aslan as w…Open passage →
  4. Chapter V · paragraph 15…rtain tower, one of three that were built in my grandsire's time to guard Lantern Waste against certain perilous outlaws who dwelled there in his day. By Aslan's good will I was not robbed of my keys…Open passage →
  5. Chapter VI · paragraph 59…ds (we should hardly call them roads at all in England) which ran through Lantern Waste. And there, marching sturdily along, were about thirty Dwarfs, all with their little spades and mattocks over t…Open passage →
  6. Chapter XIII · paragraph 29…knew that he was looking out through the Stable door into the darkness of Lantern Waste where he had fought his last battle. The men were discussing whether to go in and look for Rishda Tarkaan (but …Open passage →
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CharacterMr Tumnus

The Faun who meets Lucy at the Lamp-post.

→PlaceNarnia

The central country of the chronicles, created by Aslan and inhabited by humans, Talking Beasts, Dwarfs, Fauns, centaurs, and many other peoples.

→EventCreation of Narnia

Aslan sings the Narnian world into light, landscape, vegetation, and life.

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