Chapter Five: The Wooden Shield of Mars

[1] Above all, take the shield of faith: Ephesians 6:16, KJV.

[2] brutal and ferocious: C. S. Lewis, Letter to Sister Penelope CSMV, January 31, 1946, in Collected Letters, Vol. 2, 702.

[3] emotionally and atmospherically as well as logically: C. S. Lewis, Letter to Arthur C. Clarke, January 20, 1954, in Collected Letters, Vol. 3, 412.

[4] the click-click of steel points in wooden shields: C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, 323.

[5] in the middle of a war: C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, 103.

[6] the great War of Deliverance: C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, 205.

[7] to drive Miraz out of Narnia: Lewis, Caspian, 78.

[8] I and my sons are ready . . . been thinking of a war . . . halls of high heaven: Ibid., 78–79.

[9] Tarva, the Lord of Victory . . . Alambil, the Lady of Peace: Ibid., 50.

[10] I know by the course of the planettes that there is a Knyght comynge: Quoted in C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama, 151.

[11] is fortunate and means some great good for the sad realm of Narnia: Lewis, Caspian, 50.

[12] quite possible that they might win a war and quite certain that they must wage one: Ibid., 79.

[13] monomachy: Ibid., 177.

[14] prunes and prism . . . Mrs. General: See Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit, especially book 2, chapters 2 and 7.

[15] martial mouse . . . martial policy: Lewis, Caspian, 79, 183.

[16] magic in the air: Ibid., 27.

[17] the air of Narnia . . . all his old battles . . . back to him: Ibid., 105.

[18] to harden . . . under the stars: Ibid., 84.

[19] hard virtue of Mars: C. S. Lewis, “The Adam at Night,” in Poems, 45.

[20] knights-errant: Lewis, Caspian, 11.

[21] rich suits of armor, like knights guarding the treasures: Ibid., 25.

[22] Knight of the Noble Order of the Table . . . very dangerous knight: Ibid., 177, 188.

[23] the character and influence of the planets are worked into the Knight’s Tale: C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image, 198.

[24] Oh, bother, bother, bother. . . . Comes of being a Knight and a High King: Lewis, Caspian, 194.

[25] morality up to the highest self-sacrifice . . . smallest gracefulness in etiquette: C. S. Lewis, Studies in Words, 115.

[26] On the march . . . I’d as soon march as stand here talking . . . half a day’s march . . . Count of the Western March: Lewis, Caspian, 148, 149, 110, 177.

[27] Greenroof: Ibid., 178.

[28] in a woody place . . . I can’t see a yard in all these trees . . . thick and tangled . . . stoop under branches . . . through great masses of stuff like rhododendrons: Ibid., 5, 7, 11.

[29] who cut down trees . . . could not be expected to know this: Ibid., 64.

[30] wake the spirits of these trees . . . our enemies would go mad with fright: Ibid., 80–81.

[31] Have you ever stood . . . The end of the world!: Ibid., 196.

[32] divinely comfortable: Ibid., 210.

[33] the inward significance of the whole work: C. S. Lewis, Miracles, 153.

[34] the idea of the knight . . . the great Christian ideas: C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 119.

[35] by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour . . . as in the olden times: Winston Churchill, Speech to the House of Commons, October 5, 1938. See Roy Jenkins, Churchill (London: Macmillan, 2001), 528. Emphasis added.

[36] Peter’s not using his shield properly . . . the full weight of his shoulder on my shield . . . and the rim of the shield drove into my wrist . . . the new bout went well . . . Peter now seemed to be able to make some use of his shield: Lewis, Caspian, 191–193.

[37] knight of faith . . . not his sword but his shield: C. S. Lewis, Spenser’s Images of Life, 134.

[38] Aslan, who seemed larger than before . . . the trees stirred: Lewis, Caspian, 156.

[39] Pale birch-girls were tossing their heads . . . in their various husky or creaking or wave-like voices: Ibid., 157.

[40] Bother! . . . I’ve left my new torch in Narnia: Ibid., 223.