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#REDIRECT [[The Space Trilogy#Cosmology]] |
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[[Image:Arbol.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The Field of Arbol. Image of the Solar System annotated with the Old Solar names of the celestial bodies.]] |
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'''The Field of Arbol''' refers to the fictional [[Solar System]] used by [[C.S. Lewis]] as the setting for his [[The Space Trilogy|Space Trilogy]]. While it comprises the same [[celestial bodies]] as in the real Solar System, there are significant differences in planetary geology, and history; including non-human indigenous extraterrestrial civilisations. |
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The [[Old Solar]] names used for the bodies in the Field of Arbol are: |
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![[IAU]] Name !! Old Solar Name |
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| [[Sun|The Sun]] || [[Arbol]] |
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| [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] || [[Mercury in fiction|Viritrilbia]] |
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| [[Venus]] || [[Perelandra]] |
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| [[Earth]] || [[Earth in fiction|Thulcandra]] (''The Silent Planet'') |
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| [[Moon|The Moon]] || [[Moon in art and literature|Sulva]] |
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| [[Mars]] || [[Malacandra]] |
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| [[Asteroid Belt]] || ''The dancers before the threshold of the Great Worlds'' |
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| [[Jupiter]] || [[Jupiter in fiction|Glundandra]] (''Glund'') |
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| [[Saturn]] || [[Saturn in fiction|Lurga]] |
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| [[Uranus]] || [[Uranus in fiction|Neruval]] |
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| [[Neptune]]|| Not attested |
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==Civilizations== |
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* '''Sulvan''' - Sulva is described in ''[[That Hideous Strength]]'', as being home to a race of extreme [[eugenics|eugenicists]]. On the near side, the elite caste seems to have dispensed with organic existence altogether, by some means never clearly described; the only holdouts against this trend are an embattled minority on the far side. In the book the response of the characters to this state of affairs varies according to their status: Professor Filostrato, the dupe of the wicked N.I.C.E., considers the Sulvans "[a] great race, further advanced than we", while the [[Christianity|Christian]] champion [[Elwin Ransom]] describes them as "an accursed people, full of pride and lust". |
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==Languages== |
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Though not as fully realised as the languages devised by [[Tolkien]] for [[Middle-earth]]; Lewis described three languages used in the Field of Arbol. |
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*'''[[Old Solar]]''' – also known as: '''Hlab-Eribol-ef-Cordi''', language of the Fields of Arbol; '''Hressa-Hlab''' (erroneously), language of the hrossa; the Great Tongue; Language Herself; the language of [[Maleldil]] - spoken throughout the Field of Arbol, except in Thulcandra and Sulva. |
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*'''[[Surnibur]]''' – the language of the [[Seroni]]. Spoken in the Highlands of Malacandra. |
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*'''[[Pfifltriggi|Language of the Pfifltriggi]]''' – spoken in the Great Valleys of Malacandra. |
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==See also== |
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[[The Space Trilogy]] |
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==References== |
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*David C. Downing. ''Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of CS Lewis's Ransom Trilogy''. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. |
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*Martha C. Sammons. ''A Guide Through CS Lewis' Space Trilogy''. Westchester, IL: Cornerstone Books, 1980. |
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==External links== |
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* [http://webstudent7.basd.k12.wi.us/index.html Languages of the Out of the Silent Planet Trilogy] – site discussing the languages of the Field of Arbol described in [[The Space Trilogy]] |
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*[http://www.malacandra.co.uk Malacandra.co.uk], a Wiki for CS Lewis fans. |
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