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The Rise

**The Rise** is a fairly isolated house and estate in England, near the town of Sterk, mentioned at the beginning of *Out of the Silent Planet*.

Dr. Elwin Ransom is out walking near here, when a storm strikes, and he tries to take shelter in there. He is told that a fellow academic lives in there, so he hopes he will get some shelter there out of some kind of fellow feeling. He is looking for a place to stay the night and stumbles upon a small cottage where a woman is desperately waiting for her son to return. Ransom agrees to help her in hopes he might be able to stay the night at The Rise, the estate where the woman's son Harry works.

At the front door, Ransom hears shouting and struggling inside. When he hurries around back, he sees Weston and Devine trying to force Harry, a dull-witted young man, to enter a structure on the property against his will. Ransom intervenes, and Devine sees him as a better prospect than Harry for what he and Weston have in mind. With Weston's grudging consent, Devine offers Ransom a drink and accommodations for the night.

After enjoying what he thinks is a glass of whisky and water, Ransom realises that he has been drugged. He tries to escape the Rie but is subdued by Weston and Devine. When he regains consciousness he finds himself in a metallic spherical spacecraft *en route* to a planet called Malacandra. He looks back and sees “*that little disc-London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare. There everyone had lived and everything had happened; and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of [ that ] empty house near Sterk.*”
6 Everettson Ave

**6 Everettson Ave,** also called **The Spire** or **2 FedComm** is a mixed use supertall skyscraper currently under construction in the Federal district of Newisle. It is the second building constructed as part of the Federal Complex and is connected to the neighbouring 4 Everettson Ave via elevated walkway.

Construction began on 23 May and completed on the 26th at the original site of the Black Hand Headquarters, which was offsited the same day. The base is a three story shopping centre that houses retail for AAIRFLEET, Antyque, The Beatdown (record store), terrain, Reusable Union and a Buddy Brew. At the time of it's completion, the skyscraper became the 4th tallest building in the Newisle.
St. Elizabeth's College

**St. Elizabeth's College** is a constituent college of the University of Edgestow. It is a ladies' college, meaning only women can attend (women are not admitted to the other colleges).

## Basis

Back when C.S. Lewis was writing it was common for traditional universities to have single sex colleges, and to have a ladies' college set aside. This was a reflection of the times rather than Lewis' choice.

## See also

* Other Edgestow colleges
	+ Bracton College
	+ Duke's College
	+ Northumberland College
* University of Cambridge
* University of Oxford
Robert Browning

**Robert Browning** (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. His best remembered work today is the poem *The Pied Piper of Hamelin*.

He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His career began well – the long poems *Pauline* (1833) and *Paracelsus* (1835) were acclaimed – but his reputation fell back for a time – his 1840 poem *Sordello* was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846 Browning married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861 he had published the collection *Men and Women* (1855). His *Dramatis Personae* (1864) and book-length epic poem *The Ring and the Book* (1868–1869) made him a leading poet. He remained prolific, but his reputation today rests mainly on his middle period. By his death in 1889 he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Societies for studying his work survived in Britain and the US into the 20th century.

## Influence on the Dark Tower

*The Dark Tower* takes its name from his poem *Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came*:

> *If at his counsel I should turn aside/ Into that ominous tract which, all agree,/ Hides the Dark Tower. Yet acquiescingly/ I did turn as he pointed: neither pride/ Nor hope rekindling at the end descried,/ So much as gladness that some end might be.*
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1. ↑ https://www.bartleby.com/246/654.html
Uplifting

**Uplifting** is the process whereby creatures can become Hnau or at least raised to a higher level of intelligence and spirituality. Uplifting differs from the concept of evolution in that one species is involved in artificially raising the status of another, rather than natural selection.

The process seems to be mainly taking place on Perelandra in the Space Trilogy and may invol the some of the following:

* Submen, maybe or maybe not related to the Torlindri
* Fish, possibly.
* Great earth crawlers, possibly, if they are not native to Viritrilbia

It appears the Torlindri were uplifted in the recent past, and that the process occurred in Malacandra long ago, resulting in multiple hnau species who co-operate with each other and compliment each other.

It is unclear whether this has happened on Thulcabdra with humans or not. The Bent One appears to have tried to hinder this process through his rebellion. The National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments claim that they wish to uplift humanity further through technocracy, but they are ultimately run by Macrobes, whose endgoal is the destruction, not the ascension of humanity. Sulva, Earth's Moon, has also undergone the reverse process, with many of the great race being eliminated or enslaved with the removal of organic life.

In *the Dark Tower*, allegedly by Clive Staples Lewis, it is arguable whether this process is being attempted or the reverse. Humans are being turned into the Jerkies, with some humans being Drones who aim to become like the Stingingmen.

## Basis

Lewis was an avid reader of science fiction, and this concept had in some form been expressed in the works of William Olaf Stapledon, Herbert George Wells (in an ironic sense in *the Island of Doctor Moreau*) and so on. In the case of Stapledon, one of his novels features an uplifted dog. More recently it has appeared in the works of numerous other SF authors.

The ethics of such a process have been discussed both in an extraterrestrial context and an earthly one. On Earth it is particularly relevant in the case of intelligent non-human species such as chimpanzees, dolphins and even cephalopods. Whether such a project is desirable or ethical is a moot point. Developing intelligence on other planets might help civilisation to spread across the universe in environments that humans could never live, and so falls into a similar category as artificial panspermia. Writers such as Peter Kolosimo, Erich Von Däniken and Zechariah Sitchin and many others, have tried to promote the idea that humans were uplifted in the distant past.
Professor Augustus Frost

"*The real importance of scientific war, is that scientists have to be reserved."*

Professor **Augustus Frost** is a psychologist and assistant to John Wither, he is the only other member of the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments who knows the true nature of the Head and of the Macrobes. He sports pince-nez glasses and a pointy beard.

Frost views emotions and values as mere chemical phenomena to be ignored as distractions from scientific inquiry. He is coldhearted and unemotional and he has an exact, precise manner of speech and thinking.

Professor Augustus Frost, reflects his name in his life - from his ice-like demeanour, to the cold way he treats people, to the way he speaks in an icy methodical monotone. Frost often puts off many newcomers to the institute. Though those that take the time to learn from him will find him a good tutor. Knowledgeable in nearly all areas of History and Science, Frost has a lot of knowledge to impart, seemingly wise beyond his years. No one can remember a time when Frost actually wasn't with the institute, and they put him among the eldest of its faculty.

It is well known that, though not through official title, Frost runs much of the institute, having practical power and decision making second only to Wither, though the two of them are rarely ever seen in the same room.

## Quotations

* *“What are you waiting for, Mr. Studdock?” said Frost.*.
Hyoi

**Hyoi** is a Hross, a Hnau or native of the world of Malacandra. He has a wife named Hleri. Ransom and Hyoi first meet at a lake, where Ransom was stopping for water. Hyoi is very nice to Ransom, and invites him to his home. There, they talk about each of their worlds, and ancient legends on Earth that are reality on Malacandra. Ransom says that Earth must be Thulcandra or "The Silent Planet", because, at one point, it was separated from the Heavens. Hyoi explains that Oyarsa is head god of all gods in the heavens

### Character summary

Hyoi is Ransom’s first friend among the hrossa, an intelligent seal-like species on Malacandra. Like all hrossa, Hyoi deeply appreciates poetry and beauty, introducing Ransom to the hrossan ideal of death as the welcome completion of life, and that which brings meaning to all the pleasurable experiences of life. Hyoi is killed by Weston and Devine while Hyoi and Ransom are on a mission to hunt the hnakra (a shark-like creature). Hyoi dies content with his identity as a hnakrapunt (one who has killed the hnakra), rather than resenting the fact that his time was cut short by bent humans.

## Quotations

* "**A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.** You are speaking, *Hmān*, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. **It is all one thing.** The *séroni* could say it better than I say it now. Not better than I could say it in a poem. What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure, as the *crah* is the last part of a poem. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. **What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then–that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it.**"

* "And I say also this. **I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.**"

## References

* https://www.gradesaver.com/out-of-the-silent-planet/study-guide/character-list,

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/out-of-the-silent-planet/characters/hyoi.
Tom Maggs

> Dearest Tom, I do hope your well and the Director here is one of the right sort and he says to come as quick as you can to the Manor at St. Anne's. And don’t go through Edgestow Tom whatever you do, but come any way you can I should think someone had given you a Lift. Everything is all-right no more now. Lots of love, ever your own Ivy
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> Ivy's note to Tom in *That Hideous Strength*

**Tom Maggs** was a character in *That Hideous Strength*. He was the husband of Ivy Maggs and likely became part of Elwin Ransom's Company in the Manor at St. Anne's on the Hill after his time in the County Jail and Belbury

## History

Little is known of his early life, but he was said to have worked in a laundromat, but soon became affiliated with bad company and led a life of crime. At one point in time, he stole money from the laundromat that he was an employee of. Everything changed when he met Ivy Maggs and began to go out with her. He tried to leave his life of crime behind, but eventually it came back to him. Six weeks after he married Ivy, his crime at the laundromat was unearthed (presumably by the National Police) and he was arrested; he was sentenced to serve time in the County Jail on an account of ordinary petty theft. All Tom thought about was the day he would be released to see Ivy again.

Despite this, however, Elwin Ransom, the Director of the Company in the Manor, considered him to be a good man when he told Jane Tudor Studdock of this.

Merlinus Ambrosius, upon joining the Company and learning of Tom Maggs, believed that they should storm the County Jail to free him and wondered why the Company were against this. Later, Cecil Dimble joked to Margaret Dimble that they would all be in the County Jail if they followed even just half of Merlin's many plans.

Eventually, Tom's sentence was served and he was said to be released. Ivy left the Manor, spent a night with an aunt, and went to meet him outside the prison gate, though he was not there. Margaret Dimble told Jane about this in the Lodge a day later, claiming that she was tasked with making the small garden-house ready for both Ivy and Tom.

It was later discovered that though his sentence was up, he was not released and instead sent to Belbury for supposedly remedial treatment. Ivy Maggs came back to the Manor in a distress so great that she was not very coherent. Before Merlinus left for Belbury under the guise of a Basque priest, Ivy wrote a note for him to give to Tom.

During his time imprisoned in Belbury, Tom was placed in a small white cell near the cell Mr. Bultitude was in. Merlinus released both of them, giving Tom the message from Ivy. Presumably, Tom joined the Company in the Manor at St. Anne's on the Hill.
Urendi Maleldil

*"Death itself in the day I drink it and go to Maleldil."*- Hyoi
**Urendi Maleldil**, also known as **Maleldil**, the **Incarnation**, the **Voice**, **Someone's Presence**, **The Holy One**, **Someone Else**, and the **Presence**, was the **Ransom** for the human race, the Supreme Being, the Creator and the representation of God in The Space Trilogy. Maleldil is King of the Eldila, dwells with his Father, the Old One, and possibly also the Third One. He was in opposition to The Bent One of Earth, the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments, and the likes of Edward Rolles Weston and Richard Devine.

For much of the trilogy, Maleldil is an unseen presence in the background, but it appears Maleldil is in regular communication with Oyarsa. He also communicates more easily with those who are less corrupted or incorrupt, such as Tinidril, the Green Lady of Perelandra.

## Quotations

* ''*Ever since he had discovered the rationality of the* hrossa *he had been haunted by ta conscientious scruple as to whether it might not be his duty to undertake their religious instruction; now, as a result of his tentative efforts, he found himself being treated as if he were the savage and being given a first sketch of civilized religion – a sort of* hrossan *equivalent of the shorter catechism. It became plain that Maleldil was a spirit without body, parts or passions.* (Out of the Silent Planet)

* “Yes,” said Oyarsa, “but one thing we left behind us on the harandra: fear. And with fear, murder and rebellion. The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end. If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace.” (Out of the Silent Planet)

* “Where Maleldil is, there is the centre. He is in every place. Not some of Him in one place and some in another, but in each place the whole Maleldil, even in the smallness beyond though. There is no way out of the centre save into the Bent Will which casts itself into the Nowhere. Blessed be He! Each thing was made for Him. He is the centre. Because we are with Him, each of us is at the centre...In His city all things are made for each. When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each mad had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil, is the end and the final cause of all creation and the mirror in which the beam of His brightness comes to rest and so returns to Him. Blessed be He!” (Perelandra)

*"Do you know," said Ivy in a low voice, "that’s a thing I don’t quite understand. [The eldila ] are so eerie… But I don’t feel like that about God. But He ought to be worse, if you see what I mean."* - *That Hideous Strength*

## See also

* Adam and Eve
* Bible
* Bethlehem
* Divine Justice
* Eldil
* Faith
* Miracle
* Old One (God/the Father)
* The Bent One
* Third One (Holy Spirit)
* Tower of Babel
* Un-man
Wedenshaw

**Wedenshaw** is the private school which Dr. Elwin Ransom and Dick Devine attended before going to university.

## Quotations

“My name is Ransom, if that is what you mean. And—” “By Jove,” said the slender man, “not Ransom who used to be at Wedenshaw?” “I was at school at Wedenshaw,” said Ransom. “I thought I knew you as soon as you spoke,” said the slender man. “I’m Devine. Don’t you remember me?” “Of course. I should think I do!” said Ransom as the two men shook hands with the rather laboured cordiality which is traditional in such meetings. In actual fact Ransom had disliked Devine at school as much as anyone he could remember.”
Sterk

"*The far-flung line even in the wilds of Sterk and Nadderby*"- *Out of the Silent Planet*
**Sterk** is a small town mentioned in *Out of the Silent Planet*. Dr. Elwin Ransom is walking around here when he meets an old woman, looking for her son Harry. The weather becomes foul and he seeks shelter in The Rise.

The area is described as "*a desolate, featureless sort of country mainly devoted to cabbage and turnip, with poor hedges and few trees*".

When Ransom regains consciousness on the Spaceship,
he looks back at Earth and sees “*that little disc-London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare. There everyone had lived and everything had happened; and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of [ that ] empty house near Sterk.*”
Seven dips

The **seven dips** were a system used by the hnau on Malacandra, where they dip a hnau's head in water. These seven dips are used to cure hnau’s of any ailments they have. After Edward Rolles Weston made a buffoon of himself, the Oyarsa of Malacandra had Firikitekila take him and Richard Devine to be dipped seven times in cold cisterns of water.
Thulcandra (rock group)

The group **Thulcandra** is a black metal band from Munich, Germany. They take their name from the Old Solar for Earth in the Space Trilogy.

They have released four full-length studio albums. Their latest album *A Dying Wish* was released in 2021 through Napalm Records to overwhelming reviews. The band's style is described as melodic black metal and inspired by bands such as Dissection, Sacramentum, and Unanimated.

Thulcandra was founded in 2003 by guitarist Steffen Kummerer and Jurgen Zintz. Thulcandra recorded a demo called Perishness Around Us in 2004, but neither were satisfied with its quality and did not release it. Shortly thereafter guitarist Jürgen Zintz committed suicide in 2005. Thus the band then went on hold. Upon moving to another city in late 2008 Steffen Kummerer started listening to their first demo after many years, and decided to restart the band.

The name of the band is taken from a 1989 demo of the Norwegian act Darkthrone, coming from the 1938 science fiction novel *Out of the Silent Planet* by C. S. Lewis, where Thulcandra is the name for the silent planet, Earth.

### Current members

* Steffen Kummerer - guitars & vocals (2002–present)
* Alessandro Delastik - drums (2014–present)
* Mariano Delastik - guitars (2018–present)
* Carsten Schorn - bass (2020-present)

### Former members

* Jürgen Zintz - guitars (2003–2005; died 2005)
* Jonas Baumgartl - drums (2003–2005)
* Seraph - drums (2008–2015)
* Sebastian Ludwig - guitars (2008–2017)
* Tobias Ludwig - bass (2008–2017)
* Christian Kratzer - bass (2018–2020, died in 2020)

## Discography

### Studio albums

* *Fallen Angel’s Dominion* (2010)
* *Under a Frozen Sun* (2011)
* *Ascension Lost* (2015)
* *A Dying Wish* (2021)

### Music videos

* *The Second Fall* (2015)
* *Funeral Pyre* (2021)
* *Nocturnal Heresy* (2021)
* *A Dying Wish* (2021)

1. ↑ http://www.metalinjection.net/reviews/album-review-thulcandra-ascension-lost
2. ↑ http://heavymetal.about.com/od/thulcandra/fl/Thulcandra-Ascension-Lost-Review.htm
Your Knight (Feature Length)

*This is a fairly corny gender neutral love story about a knight who is sworn to protect you, but somewhere along the way, he gives your is heart as well as his sword. I sincerely hope you enjoy this extended version, and I hope that it acts as a lovely digital cuddle.*

This supercut includes the following videos:

* Your Personal Knight
* Your Knight Returns
* Your Knight No More

See the individual video pages for details.
Meteor

Meteor is a place where Galiel and his minions live.

## Appearance

Meteor looks like a giant brown/yellowish bulb with roots that are tied to ocean floor. On the top there are giant blue crystals. It's able to project electric beams.

Inside, the interior is brown colored. In the main room on center there is Galiel's chamber, that projects green electric walls around Galiel. Over the chamber, there are green crystals that can show anything Galiel wants to see trough his telekinesis.

Meteor falling to the oceanMeteor projecting an electric shieldMeteor projecting the beams from underwater
University of Oxford

The **University of Oxford** is a prestigious institution in England, or Logres.

It is mentioned in the Space Trilogy.

## Real world

Both C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were involved with Oxford and so were the Inklings. It is said by some people that Edgestow is based on Oxford.

## See also

* University of Cambridge
* University of Edgestow
	+ Bracton College
	+ Duke's College
	+ Northumberland College
	+ St. Elizabeth's College
Sleeper

The **Sleeper**, also known as the **Man in the Bed**, the **Stranger**, **Dr. Ambrosius**, and **Ambrosius**, was a tramp and a traveling tinker who plays a minor role in *That Hideous Strength*. He is camping in Bragdon Wood, an area which the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments wish to acquire off Bracton College, because of its connection to ancient legend. One night, during a heavy storm, both the Company at the Manor and N.I.C.E. personnel are on the trail of Merlinus Ambrosius, who has apparently revived. Merlin has taken the Sleeper's clothes through his powers of hypnosis and acquired a wild horse. He meets the Company at the Manor but rides away. Members of the N.I.C.E. capture the Sleeper, believing him to be Merlin.

## Quotations

“I got a plan”

“What is it?”

“Ah,” said the man winking at Mark with infinite knowingness and rubbing his belly.

“Go on. What is it?” said Mark.

“How’d it be,” said the man, sitting up and applying his left thumb to his right fore-finger as if about to propound the first step in a philosophical argument, “how’d it be now if you and I made ourselves a nice bit of toasted cheese?”

“I meant a plan for escape,” said Mark.

“Ah,” replied the man. “My old Dad now He never had a day’s illness in his life. Eh? How’s that for a bit of all right? Eh?”

“It’s a remarkable record,” said Mark. (309)
Tor

**Tor**, also known as the **Father**, the **Adam**, the **Crown**, **Baru**, **Ask**, **Yatsur**, and the **King of Perelandra**, was a Torlindri on Perelandra. Tor's wife is Tinidril, the Green Lady, and he too is green skinned. He shared the name Paradise and the two **Persons** with Tinidril.

He does not feature through most of the novel of Perelandra, but later on when he returns he becomes **Tor-Oyarsa-Perelendri**, or Tor the Lord of Perelandra.

## Basis

The names of the Adam and Eve characters of Venus, Tor and Tinidril, were consciously adapted by Lewis from those of Tuor and Idril, created by his friend J.R.R. Tolkien.

## Quotations

"I have a mother?" said the Green Lady, looking full at him with eyes of untroubled wonder. "What do you mean? I am the Mother." And once again there fell upon Ransom the feeling that it was not she, or not she only, who had spoken. [...]

"If you are a mother, where are your children?" "Not yet," she answered.

"Who will be their father?" "The King – who else?"

"But the King – had he no father?" "He is the Father."

"You mean," said Ransom slowly, "that you and he are the only two of your kind in the whole world?"

"Of course."
Professor Filostrato

> "This Institute —— Dio mio, it is for something better than housing and vaccinations and faster trains and curing the people of cancer. It is for the conquest of death: or for the conquest of organic life, if you prefer. They are the same thing."
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**Professor Filostrato** is an obese Italian physiologist at the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments. Filostrato has seemingly preserved François Alcasan's head, though it is really controlled by the "Macrobes". He believes the Head to be truly Alcasan. His ultimate goal is to free humanity from the constraints of organic life. In reality he is a eunuch, unable to father children.

Filostrato admires the Masters of the great race, and how they have been able to rid most of the surface of Sulva of said organic life.

## Background

Filostrato is a character from the Decameron and Macobius.

## Quotations

>   "Yes. A dead world," said Mark gazing at the Moon.
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>    "No!" said Filostrato. He had come close to Mark and spoke almost in a whisper, the bat-like whisper of a voice that is naturally high-pitched. "No. There is life there."
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>   "Do we know that?" asked Mark.
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>   "Oh, si. Intelligent life. Under the surface. A great race, further advanced than we. An inspiration. A pure race. They have cleaned their world, broken free (almost) from the organic."
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Lost MC

> *"LFFL Lost para sempre, para sempre Lost"*
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## Descrição

O The Lost MC é uma gangue de motoqueiros fora-da-lei que domina o estado de San andreas atuando em várias áreas porém focado em tráfico de armas e munições, eles atuam em Los Santos, Blaine County e Paleto Bay são rivais do Angels of Death MC. O The Lost MC nasceu em Liberty City e cresceu por lá, daí resolveram expandir e abrir uma filial em Los Santos e logo após em Blaine County. Em San Andreas, a gangue comanda parte de Sandy Shores, onde usam um aeroporto abandonado para entregas de armas e suprimentos preciosos por todo o estado de San Andreas.
Stars' milk

**Stars' milk** is what the Malacandrians call silver.

The principal miners of stars' milk on Malacandra are the Pfifltriggi, and they use it in producing various crafted items and even architecture.

It is presumably a calque of an Old Solar term.

## Quotations

*"In our country," said Kanakaberaka, "it is not like this. We are not pinched in a narrow handramit. There are the true forests, the green shadows, the deep mines. It is warm. It does not blaze with light like this, and it is not silent like this. I could put you in a place there in the forests where you could see a hundred fires at once and hear a hundred hammers. I wish you had come to our country. We do not live in holes like the sorns nor in bundles of weed like the hrossa. I could show you houses with a hundred pillars, one of sun's blood and the next of stars' milk, all the way ... and all the world painted on the walls."'*
Perelandrians

There are three main races of **Perelandrians**, some of which are hnau and some not.

## Torlindri

The Torlindri are the dominant species on Perelandra. They are green in colour, naked and can breathe both air and water. Uplifts are the newest hnau on Perelandra. Uplifts are Perelandrian beasts that have been made so wise by Torlindri that they have become hnau. Tinidril, the Green Lady, and Tor are the only Torlindri in the novel *Perelandra*.

## Submen

The submen (singular, merman, merwoman, mermaid etc) live in Lur, and may well become hnau in the future. They were created by Urendi Maleldil and are possibly the ancestral species of the Torlindri, although that is not confirmed. They, too, are green humanoids, but not quite as humanoid as the Torlindri. They cannot breathe air. They have webbed hands and legs terminating in long, webbed toes. They have double-jointed knees and no heels to their feet, making them ill-adapted to walking, even if they could breathe air.

## Great earth crawlers

Elwin Ransom encounters great earth crawlers which live underground in the underland of the Fixed Island. They may or may not be hnau, but are in a more advanced state than the submen.

In some non-canon sources, they are known as the Irkstrin. It says they are not native to Perelandra and come from Viritrilbia to mine. If so, they are the only other species other than humans which use Spaceships.

## Uplifts

These are creatures which may be turned into hnau in the future. The aforementioned submen are one, along with the more intelligent fish, and Dragons.
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## Space Trilogy Books

1. Out of the Silent Planet 2. Perelandra 3. That Hideous Strength

## Associated Works

1. The Dark Tower and Other Stories, 2. The Abolition of Man, 3. The Tortured Planet 4. Religion and Rocketry

## Main Characters

Elwin Ransom

Edward Rolles Weston

Clive Staples Lewis

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	+ Hyoi
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	+ Mark Gainsby Studdock
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	+ The Bent One
	+ Tinidril

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Tinidril

**Tinidril** also known as the **Green Lady**, the **Green Woman**, the **Woman**, the **Mother**, the **Eve**, the **Crown**, **Baru'ah**, **Embla**, **Yatsurah**, **Oyarsa-Perelendri**, and the **Queen of Perelandra** was the first hnau or rational creature whom Ransom meets on Perelandra; she is the biblical Eve figure of that world. She shared the name Paradise and the two **Persons** with Tor.

She looks just like a human being (with the exception of her green skin), but is of a different race altogether known as the Torlindri, since she does not descend from Adam and Eve. The Green Lady has a goddess-like beauty combined with a childlike delight in the world and a perfectly poised dignity. Because she is uncorrupted by sin, the Green Lady enjoys a perfectly harmonious relationship with Maleldil (God), whose will is her deepest delight, and she has effortless command over her own desires and emotions. She especially loves tending and teaching Perelandra’s creatures and swimming in the waves that Maleldil sends. The Green Lady describes growth in wisdom as “growing older.”

After Weston arrives on Perelandra, he ends up becoming the Un-man and tempts the Green Lady to sin by suggesting that disobeying Maleldil’s commands (particularly the command not to dwell on the Fixed Island) will allow her to grow “older” still. Though the Green Lady ponders this possibility and even indulges in self-centred imaginings for the first time, she successfully resists the Un-man and never fully succumbs to temptation. Separated from her husband, Tor, throughout most of the story, she reunites with him to reign in love and splendor at the end of the novel. After taking the throne, she is called Tinidril. She will become the mother of Perelandra’s children.

## Basis

The names of the Adam and Eve characters of Venus, Tor and Tinidril, were consciously adapted by Lewis from those of Tuor and Idril, created by his friend J.R.R. Tolkien.

In a letter in 1941, C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter, "*I may have embarked on the impossible, this woman has got to combine characteristics which the Fall has put poles apart – she's got to be in some ways like a Pagan goddess and in other ways like the Blessed Virgin.*"

## Quotations

“I thought ... that I was carried in the will of Him I love, but now I see that I walk with it. I thought that the good things He sent drew me into them as the waves lift the islands; but now I see that it is I who plunge into them with my own legs and arms, as when we go swimming. I feel as if I were living in that roofless world of [Earth] where men walk undefended beneath naked heaven. It is a delight with terror in it! One's own self to be walking from one good to another, walking beside Him as Himself may walk, not even holding hands. How has He made me so separate from Himself? How did it enter His mind to conceive such a thing? The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.”

## References

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/perelandra/characters/the-green-lady-the-queen-tinidril
William Shakespeare

**William Shakespeare** was an English writer and poet, and probably the most famous playwright of all time. He lived in the 16th and 17th centuries. His works are counted among the best representations of Human literature. They include 154 sonnets and 39 plays, such as *Hamlet*, *Macbeth*, *The Tempest*, *Henry V',* Julius Caesar*,* Othello*,* A Midsummer Night's Dream*, and* The Merchant of Venice*.*

## *Out of the Silent Planet*

When Dr. Elwin Ransom looks out of the Spaceship in *Out of the Silent Planet* he sees Earth and thinks
“*It was all there in that little disc-London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare. There everyone had lived and everything had happened; and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of an empty house near Sterk.*”

## *The Dark Tower*

The title of Robert Browning's poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", gave its name to The Dark Tower. It in turn takes its name from the last words of the poem, is a line from Shakespeare's play *King Lear* (*ca.* 1607). In the play, Gloucester's son, Edgar, lends credence to his disguise as Tom o' Bedlam by talking nonsense, of which this is a part:

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> Child Rowland to the dark tower came.
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> His word was still "Fie, foh, and fum,
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> I smell the blood of a British man."
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> *King Lear*, Act 3, scene 4, lines 195-197

## External links

* Shakespeare on Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pendragon of Logres

The **Pendragon of Logres** meaning "dragon head" in Welsh, is the title which was given to Elwin Ransom in *That Hideous Strength*, along with the *Fisher-King*. It originates in the tales of Arthur the King with his relative Uther Pendragon having had the name.

At some time between the second and third book, Ransom's life was further transformed radically by becoming the secret Pendragon, the latest in an unbroken chain of secret inheritors of King Arthur who, it turns out, had been watching over Logres and helping their country in various crisis points in its history - a role which is crucially important to his relationship with the reawakened wizard Merlin, who served as the High Council of Logres. He establishes a secret Company in the Manor, which he heads and which is the polar opposite and centre of opposition to the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments which is threatening to take over the world. There, he is in regular contact with the descending oyarsa of the Graeco-Roman Pantheon (who are in fact no gods at all, but angels and faithful servants of the true, one and only God).

## Quotations

"*[Ransom is] a man, my dear. And he is the Pendragon of Logres. This house, all of us here, and Mr Bultitude and Pinch, are all that’s left of the Logres: all the rest has become merely Britain*" (Camilla\_Denniston).
The First Men in the Moon

***The First Men in the Moon*** is a work by English author H.G. Wells. The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites". One of the main characters is referred to in *Out of the Silent Planet*, when Elwin Ransom says:

*He did not want to tell them too much of our human wars and industrialisms. He remembered how H.G. Wells’s Cavor had met his end on the Moon; also he felt shy. A sensation of physical nakedness came over him whenever they questioned him too closely about men – the*  hmana  *as they called them.*

C.S. Lewis stated in a letter to Roger Lancelyn Green:

"*What immediately spurred me to write was Olaf Stapledon's* Last and First Men *… and an essay in J.B.S. Haldane's* Possible Worlds *both of wh[ich] seemed to take the idea of such [space] travel seriously and to have the desperately immoral outlook wh[ich] I try to pillory in Weston. I like the whole interplanetary ideas as a* mythology *and simply wished to conquer for my own (Christian) p[oin]t of view what has always hitherto been used by the opposite side. I think H. G. Wells'* First Men in the Moon *the best of the sort I have read …*"
It was originally serialised in *The Strand Magazine* from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his "fantastic stories".

## The Space Trilogy

The great race of Sulva in The Space Trilogy make for an interesting contrast with the Selenites of the novel. They have a fight between the technocratic elements which seek to destroy life, and remaining organic elements.

Wells' Selenites operate something like an anthill. In Lewis' work it is the humans who are the most mechanistic and destructive. In That Hideous Strength, the N.I.C.E. are those trying to set up such a society under the guise of science. The N.I.C.E. also satirise H.G. Wells, notably the Horace Jules character.

Ransom's departure from Earth in *Out of the Silent Planet* is also a kind of satire of the liftoff in this book, with the Cavor character being replaced by the more malicious Weston and Devine, in a similar English country house.
Steele

**Steele** is director of the Sociological Department at Bracton College, at the University of Edgestow. Mark Gainsby Studdock initially thinks he will work under Steele, but Professor Filostrato tells him otherwise and he falls into the clutches of the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments instead.

The N.I.C.E. were very dismissive of the Sociological Department, and Major Hardcastle has great glee in telling Mark that Steele's department is to be disbanded.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

***The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*** is a comic book series (inspired by the 1960 British film The League of Gentlemen) co-created by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill which began in 1999. The series spans four volumes, an original graphic novel, and a spin-off trilogy of graphic novella. Volume I and Volume II (originally released as two six-issue limited series) and the graphic novel Black Dossier were published by the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics. After leaving the America's Best imprint, the series moved to Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics, which published Volume III: Century (originally released as three graphic novella), the Nemo Trilogy (a spin-off of three graphic novella centered on the character of Nemo), and Volume IV: The Tempest (originally released as a six-issue limited series). According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a "Justice League of Victorian England" but he quickly developed it as an opportunity to merge elements from many works of fiction into one world.

The séroni appear at the beginning of the second volume of *The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen* as one of the Martian races allied against the "mollusc invaders" (the Martians from *The War of the Worlds*).
The Monster Who Ate Jesus

***The Monster Who Ate Jesus*** is a 1999 album by American punk band Blaster the Rocket Man. Many of its songs are inspired by C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy.

*The Monster Who Ate Jesus* is the first studio album of Indianapolis Christian horror punk band Blaster the Rocket Man under Jackson Rubio Records, released August 10, 1999. Though technically the band's first album, the group has put out two previous records under a different name, Blaster the Rocketboy, and with a different label, Boot to Head Records.

## Track listing

1. "Deploy All Monsters Now!" 3:34
2. "It Came From Down South" 1:22
3. "Hopeful Monsters are Dying Everyday" 1:15
4. "Stampede!" 3:12
5. "Human Fly trap (Our Hero Escapes from Venus)" 2:26
6. "[Untitled]" 0:45
7. "Ransom vs. the Unman" 1:50
8. "March of the Macrobes" 2:52
9. "Cop City" 1:38
10. "Lovebot's Revenge" 2:03
11. "Disasteroid" 1:20
12. "[Untitled]" 0:49
13. "Frankenstein's Monster Wants a Wife" 2:57
14. "I Like Lycanthropy" 2:53
15. "Tundra Time on Thulcandra" 1:58
16. "Venus at St. Anne's" 2:22
17. "Beehive Behave" 1:14
18. "Baby Unvamp (is Making a Comeback)" 7:30

## Themes

Christian themes and allegories are predominant throughout the album, including songs like "I Like Lycanthropy" (with lyrics such as, "You gotta die, die, die with Jesus to know the Resurrection") and "Baby Unvamp (is Making a Comeback)," featuring the lyrics, "But now we are the Bride of Jesus Christ." Several of the songs deal with mythical creatures such as werewolves ("I Like Lycanthropy") and Frankenstein's monster ("Frankenstein's Monster Wants a Wife").

Songs that are directly related to the Space Trilogy are:

* "Ransom vs. the Unman" details the battle of Dr. Elwin Ransom and the Un-man, characters of the Space Trilogy, which is featured in Perelandra, the second book of the series.
* "Tundra Time on Thulcandra" uses various terms found throughout the trilogy such as Thulcandra.
* "March of the Macrobes" about the Macrobes.
* "Venus at St. Anne's" about the Manor
O'shea Johnson

**O'shea Johnson** é interpretado por **xTekken.**

## Descrição

**O'shea Johnson** é um atual morador do bairro Chembarlain Hills, vive uma vida dividida em trabalhos legais e ilegais, não se afiliou a nenhuma gangue até o momento.

## História

**O'shea Johnson** tem 26 anos, cresceu em Chembarlain Hills, após seu pai abandoná-lo ainda em maternidade, sua mâe cedeu as drogas, e acabou se viciando em heroína, meses depois, sua mâe foi internada numa clinica e acabou sendo criado por sua tia Denise Johnson, atualmente tem uma fraca relação com sua mâe.

**O'shea Johnson** cresceu viciado em heroína, única coisa herdada de sua mâe, porem se manteve sóbrio por anos, tendo uma recaída após a morte de sua tia, mas atualmente não ingere heroína regularmente.

Como Cresceu num bairro dominado por gangues, suas amizades não saiam longe disso, maioria criminosos afiliados na **Chamberlain Gangster Families (CGF)**, porém O'shea nunca se afiliou a gangue, ficando somente com roubos pequenos e individuais.

Após a morte de sua tia, ficou sem lugar para viver e sustento, logo, botando em mente se afiliar aos **Families** para poder faturar com o trafico de drógas e outros trabalhos.
Possible Worlds and Other Essays

***Possible Worlds and Other Essays*** is a 1927 book by the science writer J.B.S. Haldane.

Lewis said that his Space Trilogy was written in response to the dehumanising currents of modern science fiction.
Lewis stated in a letter to Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green:

"*What immediately spurred me to write was Olaf Stapledon's* Last and First Men *… and an essay in J.B.S. Haldane's* Possible Worlds *both of wh[ich] seemed to take the idea of such [space] travel seriously and to have the desperately immoral outlook wh[ich] I try to pillory in Weston. I like the whole interplanetary ideas as a* mythology *and simply wished to conquer for my own (Christian) p[oin]t of view what has always hitherto been used by the opposite side. I think H. G. Wells'* First Men in the Moon *the best of the sort I have read …*"
Submen

**Submen** were a type of aquatic creature found living in Lur. They were not Hnau, but it is suggested that they may be on the way to becoming so, and demonstrate some curiosity when they first see Elwin Ransom. It is unclear what relation they have to the Torlindri or whether they are related at all. Females are known as "mermaids" and males as "mermen", much as their analogues in Earth mythology.

## Description

The submen were the first thing closest to native hnau on Perelandra before the Torlindri and where created by Maleldil. They, too, are green humanoids, but not quite as humanoid as the Torlindri. They cannot breathe air. They have webbed hands and legs terminating in long, webbed toes. They have double-jointed knees and no heels to their feet, making them ill-adapted to walking, even if they could breathe air.

The book says:
"*There – and there again – it was unmistakable: now a shoulder, now a profile, and then for one second a full face: veritable mermen or mermaids. The resemblance to humanity was indeed greater, not less, than he had first supposed. What had for a moment concealed it from him was the total absence of human expression. Yet the faces were not idiotic; they were not even brutal parodies of humanity like those of our terrestrial apes. They were more like human faces asleep, or faces in which humanity slept while some other life, neither bestial nor diabolic, but merely elvish, out of our orbit, was irrelevantly awake. He remembered his old suspicion that what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other. He wondered also whether the King and Queen of Perelandra, though doubtless the first human pair of this planet, might on the physical side have a marine ancestry....It is significant that it never occurred to him to try to establish any contact with these beings, as he had done with every other animal on Perelandra, nor did they try to establish any with him. They did not seem to be the natural subjects of man as the other creatures were. He got the impression that they simply shared a planet with him as sheep and horses share a field, each species ignoring the other*"
William Hingest

**William "Bill" Hingest**, also known as **Bill the Blizzard** or just the **Blizzard**, is a distinguished chemist in *That Hideous Strength* who was recruited by the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments.

Hingest soon decides to resign, since he had expected N.I.C.E. to be about science, but finds a nefarious political conspiracy instead.

When Bill says the N.I.C.E. are not practicing true science, he is accused of being "*the wrong sort of scientist.*" He makes no secret of his disdain for the Institute, and as he resigns from the N.I.C.E., warns Mark Gainsby Studdock to get out. He drives home that night, and is mysteriously beaten and murdered presumably by N.I.C.E. Institutional Police in Potter's Lane.

Later, the N.I.C.E. try and frame Mark Gainsby Studdock for Hingest's murder, by planting his wallet near the body. As Bill's funeral is held, the chapel is filled with machine noise and workmen's curses. Soon, the whole town of Edgestow is seething, it can no longer be kept out of the newspapers, and riots loom.