**Comparing Narnia and LotR**

[Anguirel]

Fascinating. I thought Miss Swinton was better than that. From dark hair to Semitic-aimed slur is one of the wildest leaps I've ever seen.

However, entirely by accident, I don't think she's far wrong in classing Jadis as an Aryan. Particularly in the Magician's Nephew in the scenes of the dying empire of Charn, the Empress Jadis does seem Aryan, in a way which does not preclude dark hair.

Aryan in the sense that the Great Kings of Persia (with more ethnic accuracy than that upstart Fuhrer) imagined themselves as Lords of an Aryan master race, who had naturally been ordained to subdue the natives of Iran, and form there, the world. Jadis has that air of absolute, terrifying Eastern grandeur, despotic and compelling even when at the point of death.

They'd better not give the Lady of the Green Kirtle dark hair. But of course it doesn't work that way round...