Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
Object

Magic rings

Also known as yellow rings, green rings, rings

Yellow and green rings made by Uncle Andrew from material connected to Atlantis. One color sends a traveller to the Wood between the Worlds; the other sends them outward into a world.

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

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In the chronicles

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The Magician's Nephew22 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 57… But what she noticed first was a bright red wooden tray with a number of rings on it. They were in pairs--a yellow one and a green one together, then a little space, and then another yellow …Open passage →
  2. Chapter I · paragraph 61"What do you think those are?" said Polly, pointing at the coloured rings.Open passage →
  3. Chapter II · paragraph 37…yself. Let me see--where was I? Ah yes. At last I succeeded in making the Rings: the yellow Rings. But now a new difficulty arose. I was pretty sure, now, that a yellow Ring would send any cr…Open passage →
  4. Chapter II · paragraph 45…drew, "that I did at last find out a way of doing the return journey. The Green Rings draw you back."Open passage →
  5. Chapter III · paragraph 36…! I know," said Digory. "Of course it won't work. We're still wearing our yellow Rings. They're for the outward journey, you know. The green ones take you home. We must change rings. Have you got po…Open passage →
  6. Chapter III · paragraph 37They put on their green Rings and came back to the pool. But before they tried another jump Digory gave a long "O--o--oh!"Open passage →
  7. Chapter IV · paragraph 21"We can get away the moment we want to," said Digory. "Let's take off our green Rings and put them in our right hand pockets. All we've got to do is to remember that our yellows are in our left han…Open passage →
  8. Chapter IV · paragraph 26… much the same that even Digory was thinking they had better put on their yellow Rings and get back to the warm, green, living forest of the In-between place, when they came to two huge doors of som…Open passage →
  9. Chapter V · paragraph 13…d me what I was doing. Whatever happens we mustn't let her know about the Rings. I do hope Digory has the sense to keep his mouth shut. I wish I could get a word with him alone."Open passage →
  10. Chapter V · paragraph 65…ed their left hands into their pockets. They did not even need to put the Rings on. The moment they touched them, the whole of that dreary world vanished from their eyes. They were rushing up…Open passage →
  11. Chapter VI · paragraph 4This proved, by the way, another thing about the Rings which Uncle Andrew hadn't told Digory because he didn't know it himself. In order to jump from world to world b…Open passage →
  12. Chapter VI · paragraph 9"Quick, Digory!" said Polly. "Change Rings and into the home pool."Open passage →
  13. Chapter VII · paragraph 16…st. And there didn't seem to be anything he could do about that. "But the Rings seem to work like magnets," thought Digory. "If I can only touch her and then slip on my yellow, we shall both …Open passage →
  14. Chapter VII · paragraph 22…st might be true. So many odd things had happened already. And he had the magic Rings. There must be worlds you could get to through every pool in the wood. He could hunt through them all. And then…Open passage →
  15. Chapter VIII · paragraph 51"Oh, it's rings, is it?" cried Jadis, leaping off the horse. She would have had her hands in Digory's pocket before you could s…Open passage →
  16. Chapter IX · paragraph 2…, for he was aiming at the right-hand pocket because he still thought the green Rings were "homeward" Rings. But of course Digory didn't want to lose either.Open passage →
  17. Chapter IX · paragraph 23… to keep close to the children--there might be a chance of stealing their Rings. But when he saw what Digory was looking at, even he began to take an interest. It was a perfect little model o…Open passage →
  18. Chapter X · paragraph 56"The fools!" he said to himself. "Now those brutes will eat the Rings along with the children and I'll never be able to get home again. What a selfish little boy that Digory is! And…Open passage →
  19. Chapter XI · paragraph 44"It was my Uncle, Aslan," he said. "He sent us out of our own world by Magic Rings, at least I had to go because he sent Polly first, and then we met the Witch in a place called Charn and she ju…Open passage →
  20. Chapter XI · paragraph 59…hat it was the Cabby's wife, fetched out of our world not by any tiresome magic Rings, but quickly, simply, and sweetly as a bird flies to its nest. The young woman had apparently been in the middl…Open passage →
  21. Chapter XV · paragraph 1"You need no Rings when I am with you," said the voice of Aslan. The children blinked and looked about them. They were once more i…Open passage →
  22. Chapter XV · paragraph 6…ow for the command. As soon as you can, take from this Uncle of yours his magic Rings and bury them so that no one can use them again."Open passage →
Prince Caspian2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter II · paragraph 63…of the path, were shelves covered with precious things--necklaces and arm rings and finger rings and golden bowls and dishes and long tusks of ivory, brooches and coronets and chains of gold,…Open passage →
  2. Chapter II · paragraph 64…re you would have heard them saying things like, "Oh look! Our coronation rings--do you remember first wearing this?--Why, this is the little brooch we all thought was lost--I say, isn't that…Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter VI · paragraph 12…ance--treasure. There were crowns (those were the prickly things), coins, rings, bracelets, ingots, cups, plates and gems.Open passage →
  2. Chapter XIII · paragraph 30…u are right, Drinian. I think our quest is at an end. Let's look at their rings. Yes, these are their devices. This is the Lord Revilian. This is the Lord Argoz: and this, the Lord Mavramorn.…Open passage →
The Silver Chair1 cited passage⌄
  1. Chapter VIII · paragraph 8He stretched down his great right hand--very clean and with any number of rings on the fingers, but also with terrible pointed nails. He was much too big to shake the hands which the children…Open passage →
The Last Battle2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter V · paragraph 25…ed and talked and at last the Professor said the only way would be by the Magic Rings. It was by those Rings that he and Aunt Polly got here long, long ago when they were only kids, years before we…Open passage →
  2. Chapter V · paragraph 26"So you never used the Rings?" said Tirian.Open passage →
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CharacterUncle Andrew

Digory’s vain and irresponsible uncle, an amateur magician who makes the rings that open travel between worlds.

→PlaceWood between the Worlds

A quiet wood dotted with pools, each a passage to another world.

→CharacterPolly Plummer

Digory’s resourceful friend and fellow traveller among the worlds.

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