Telmar
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Telmar is a country in the world of Narnia created by the British author C. S. Lewis. The Telmarines are prominent in the book Prince Caspian.
[edit] History
Located to the west of Narnia, Telmar was a land colonized first by men of Calormen 300 years after the creation of Narnia; where it is in relation to the Western Waste to Narnia's immediate west is unclear, however. (A map commonly found in the back of the books shows only a passage leading to Telmar in the west of Archenland, not far from Narnia.) The inhabitants purportedly found their way to a then-leaderless Narnia after "a great famine". More importantly, it is also the site of a 'chink' that leads from Earth to Narnia. Six pirates and their wives from our world were shipwrecked and fell through this gap into Telmar, producing lines of proud, warlike descendants, the Telmarines. These are the Telmarines who eventually invade Narnia, at the time in disorder, after a famine in their own land and attempt to rid the country of its magic. It is from this line of Telmarines that Prince Caspian (later King Caspian X) is descended. The story of the pirates marooned in the South Pacific, mentioned at the end of Prince Caspian bears some resemblance the factual historical account of the mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty.[citation needed] Lewis refers to earlier Narnian humans and Archenlanders, "Northerners", as being light-skinned, being definitively descended from an English cabbie and his wife; however, the Telmarines are never referred to as such. In the 2008 film adaptation, the actors portraying Telmarine characters are mainly from Mediterranean countries (i.e., Italy, Spain, Portugal).
[edit] Family Tree
For the family tree of the Royal Family, see House of Telmar family tree.
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