Stable Hill
Also known as the Stable, stable door
The hill in western Narnia where Shift’s false Aslan is exhibited in a stable. It becomes the site of Tirian’s last stand and a doorway into a greater country.
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In the chronicles
These links are generated from exact-name appearances in the supplied novels. Each opens the cited paragraph in the local reader.
The Horse and His Boy1 cited passage⌄
The Silver Chair1 cited passage⌄
The Last Battle22 cited passages⌄
- Chapter IV · paragraph 15
"Oh yes, yes," said the Rabbit. "He came out of the stable last night. We all saw him."
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 27
…d see that it was on the very top of the hill. He could see quite clearly the stable behind it, all lit up in the red glow, and a great crowd of Beasts and Men between the fire and himself. A smal…
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 10
…an got to his feet and led them rapidly downhill, southward and away from the stable. He knew well where he meant to go but his first aim was to get to rocky places where they would leave no trail…
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 2
…e of them agreed that the very first thing they must do was to go back to Stable Hill and try to rescue Jewel the Unicorn. After that, if they succeeded, they would try to get away Eastward and mee…
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 10
…rew further apart. Tirian could dimly make out the well known hilltop and the stable. Jill was now going with more and more caution: she kept on making signs to the others with her hand to do the …
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 7
…ll. You have been cheated by the Ape. This is the thing he brought out of the stable to show you. Look at it."
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 8
…onskin had got pretty untidy already during Puzzle's long imprisonment in the stable and it had been knocked crooked during his journey through the dark wood. Most of it was in a big lump on one s…
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 21
…he was a prisoner he had spent nearly all his time tied up at the back of the Stable, and had of course heard none of the enemies' plans. He had been kicked (he'd done some kicking back too) and b…
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 22
The question they had to decide was whether they would go to Stable Hill again that night, show Puzzle to the Narnians and try to make them see how they had been tricked, or whether th…
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 2
…aravel and all Narnia. Nothing now remains for us seven but to go back to Stable Hill, proclaim the truth, and take the adventure that Aslan sends us. And if, by a great marvel, we defeat those thi…
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 10
The King's first idea was that they should not go back to Stable Hill--they were sick of the very name of it by now--till after dark. But the Dwarf told them that if they arrived he…
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 8
…wicked Ass. Do you think, because of him that there is no real Tashlan in the Stable! Do you? Beware, beware."
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 9
… "That's right, Darkie, you've got it. Come on, Monkey, show us what's in the stable, seeing is believing."
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 3
…ched creature, picked it up by the scruff of the neck, and dashed back to the Stable shouting, "Open the door!" Poggin opened it. "Go and drink your own medicine, Shift!" said Tirian and hurled th…
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 12
"Forward," he said. "Take all of them alive if you can and hurl them into the Stable: or drive them into it. When they are all in we will put fire to it and make them an offering to the great god …
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 2
A Calormene was running towards the Stable door carrying something that kicked and struggled. As he came between them and the fire they could see clearly …
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 3
…lormenes had run up behind him. They formed line on the open space before the Stable. There was no getting at it now.
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 27
"But did I not come in out of the wood into the Stable? Whereas this seems to be a door leading from nowhere to nowhere."
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 29
…were like those of Calormenes. So he 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…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 2
…ght, the Tarkaan is deceived by the Ape: for this thing that comes out of the stable is neither Tash nor any other god. But when I watched the Tarkaan's face, and marked every word that he said to…
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 32
"I see," she said at last, thoughtfully. "I see now. This garden is like the Stable. It is far bigger inside than it was outside."
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 35
…elow, just as it was more real and more beautiful than the Narnia outside the Stable door! I see ... world within world, Narnia within Narnia...."
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