Telmar

Telmar is a country in the fictional world of Narnia created by the British author C. S. Lewis for his series of books which compose The Chronicles of Narnia. The Telmarines are prominent in the book Prince Caspian, the second book published in the series. The name may have been inspired by the Greek tele-, meaning far, and the Latin mare, sea, since the Telmarines arrived from a distant sea.

According to an independently circulated timeline conceived by Lewis, Calormen extended west into Telmar some three centuries after the world was first created. However, after only two years, the men in Telmar behaved so wickedly that Aslan turned them into dumb beasts. After this, the area is unpopulated by men until the arrival some centuries later of Roman pirates from our own world through a rare gateway between the worlds. These Telmarines would invade Narnia many generations later, suppressing the land's native inhabitants and leading up to the events of Prince Caspian.^[1]

In the film version of Prince Caspian, the principal Telmarine characters are portrayed by Spanish, Latin American and Italian actors.

Family tree

It is from this line of Telmarines from which Prince Caspian (later King Caspian X) is descended:

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