The age of the White Witch in Narnia is not explicitly stated in C.S. Lewis' book series. However, it is implied that she is an ancient being who has been ruling Narnia for a long time. In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," it is mentioned that she has been in power for a hundred years, which suggests that she is at least a century old. The White Witch is portrayed as a powerful sorceress with a wicked and manipulative personality.

Narnia Character Ages

Most of the main characters in The Chronicles of Narnia have their birth-years listed in C.S. Lewis’s timeline of Narnia history, but a few require some careful reading to determine.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: 1940

• Peter Pevensie: 13 – 28
• Susan Pevensie: 12 – 27
• Edmund Pevensie: 10 – 25 [a]
• Lucy Pevensie: 8 – 23 [a]
• Digory Kirke: 52

Prince Caspian: 1941

• Peter Pevensie: 14
• Susan Pevensie: 13
• Edmund Pevensie: 11 [a]
• Lucy Pevensie: 9 [a]
• Caspian: 13

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: 1942

• Edmund Pevensie: 12 [a]
• Lucy Pevensie: 10 [a]
• Eustace Clarence Scrubb: 9
• Caspian: 16

The Silver Chair: 1942

• Eustace Clarence Scrubb: 9
• Jill Pole: 9
• Caspian: 66
• Rilian: 31

The Horse and His Boy

• Shasta/Cor and Corin: 14 [b]
• Aravis: Approx 13 [c]
• Peter Pevensie: 27
• Susan Pevensie: 26
• Edmund Pevensie: 24
• Lucy Pevensie: 22

The Magician’s Nephew: 1900

• Digory Kirke: 12
• Polly Plummer: 11
• Andrew Ketterley: 60+ [d]

The Last Battle: 1949

• Eustace Clarence Scrubb: 16
• Jill Pole: 16
• Peter Pevensie: 22
• Susan Pevensie: 21
• Edmund Pevensie: 19 [a]
• Lucy Pevensie: 17 [a]
• Digory Kirke: 61
• Polly Plummer: 60

[a] Lewis’s timeline lists the birth-years of Edmund and Lucy as 1930 and 1932, but The Lion, the With and the Wardrobe says “there was really only a year’s difference” between them (ch. 4). It is possible that Edmund was born in late 1930 and then Lucy was born in early 1932. Since we don’t know which months each story takes place, we have chosen to keep the math simple for consistency.

[b] Arsheesh says he discovered Shasta as an infant in the same year that the Tisroc came into power (ch. 1). Which, according to Ahoshta Tarkaan, was also the year that the White Witch’s winter ended (ch. 8). Lewis’s timeline sets The Horse and His Boy 14 years after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Therefore, Cor and Corin are 14 years old.

[c] Shasta tells Aravis: “You’re not grown up, I don’t believe you’re any older than I am. I don’t believe you’re as old.” (ch. 3)

[d] Andrew says: “There’s no knowing how long I might live if I settled here. And that’s a big consideration when a fellow has turned sixty.” (ch. 9)

Jadis the White Witch

Rule Narnia.
Kill the four children (both failed).

Moral Event Horizon

Enacting her tyranny and the 100 years of winter on Narnia.
Turning dozens of Narnians into stone, including a group of animals having Christmas dinner to which it is unknown what happened to them.
Killing Aslan before he was resurrected.

Kill Count

Worst Crimes

Torture
Mass murder
Animal cruelty
Kidnapping
Terrorism
Psychological abuse

Type of Villain

Jadis the White Witch is the main antagonist of the Chronicles of Narnia franchise, serving as the main antagonist of The Magician's Nephew and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and a posthumous antagonist for the rest of the series.

She was an alien of extradimensional origin. she is a cruel, cold, and calculating woman who destroyed all life in her own dimension, Charn, before putting a sleep spell upon herself until she was awoken by Digory and taken to Earth, and eventually Narnia upon its creation by Aslan. 900 years later in Narnia, Jadis enacted an endless winter for a century, becoming known as the White Witch. Jadis raised an army in her evil ways that are at odds against Aslan's creation and the four prophesied children who would have a major part in defeating her.

In the UK version of the 1979 animated film, she was voiced by Sheila Hancock, while in the US version, she was voiced by Beth Porter. In the BBC series, she was portrayed by Barbara Kellerman, who also played the Lady of the Green Kirtle in the same show. In the film series, she was portrayed by Tilda Swinton.

The White Witch is portrayed as a powerful sorceress with a wicked and manipulative personality. She is known for her ability to freeze the land and keep it in a perpetual winter without Christmas. This cold and desolate state is symbolic of her personality and her desire for control.

What Makes Her Pure Evil? [ ]

• She paid "a terrible price" to learn the Deplorable Word and used it to destroy all life in her entire universe of Charn just cause she couldn't win the war over her sister (who ended up dying by Jadis' actions). She even blamed the destruction on her by claiming that she forced her to do it even though she did so herself by her own doing, meaning that she took no responsibility for it. There are many reasons why this act is not off-page villainy, mainly cause the city in Charn is expounded on greatly:
  1. The walls in the city in Charn were crumbling, and it has been a millennium since Jadis put the sleep spell upon herself. In addition, there are no lifeforms in Charn other than Jadis, no ants, no spiders, not even plants.
  2. In one of the hallways, there were images of Charn's royalty. At the beginning of the hallway, they were friendly rulers, but further, through the hallway, there were worse and worse rulers until it all came to Jadis, after which there were no more people. This indicates that her line of royalty ended with her and she was the sole person to use the Deplorable Word, as the rest of her family kept it a secret.
  3. As soon as she left her universe alongside Digory and Polly, it was reduced into nothing but a blank void, as she destroyed everything that lived in it.
  4. Last but not least, after Digory and Polly go from the world of Narnia to the Wood between the Worlds, Aslan, the creator of Narnia, warns them that it's uncertain that a wicked person will find something as evil as the Deplorable Word and use it to destroy all life, and that nations here on Earth will be ruled by despots who will be just like Jadis when she was a ruler of Charn. This shows that Aslan is fully aware that Jadis used the Deplorable Word to destroy all of Charn's life and uses it to foreshadow the rise of future dictators who would rule over nations from our world.
• She demanded that Digory and Polly take her to their world because she desired to take it over as well, going as far as to seize Polly by the top of her hair where it hurt the most.
• She threatens Uncle Andrew that if she finds any signs of disobedience in him, then she'll torture him by casting spells on him that anything he sits on will feel like hot metal and that he will feel invisible blocks of ice in his bed.
• She attempted to "blast" Aunt Letty (or turn her into dust) as she did with the palace gates of Charn because she wouldn't bow down to her; and when that failed, she threw her across the room.
  • And since she said that turning people into dust is what happens to people and things that get in her way, this highly implies that she has done this to some of her subjects before.
  1. By robbing a jewelry store.
  2. Stealing a hansom cab and whispering stuff in the horses ear to make it be a hazard to be around.
  3. Tearing off the lamppost rod and using it as a weapon.
  1. She assaulted 2 policemen by ramming it on their helmets, and would have done more if Digory hadn't interfered and sent her to the Wood Between the Worlds.
  2. She threatened to ram the iron bar at someone's head if they came within 2 paces of Digory and Polly for the rings.
  3. She assaulted Aslan by throwing it at his head between his eyes, although it did no good.
  • In the 2005 film adaption, she turns only a fox to stone for betraying her to save the Pevensies.
  • In the BBC series and 2005 film adaption, she stabs Edmund herself for destroying her wand.
  

  In the later books of the series, such as "The Magician's Nephew," it is revealed that the White Witch's true name is Jadis and that she comes from another world called Charn. This adds to the mystery surrounding her age and origins. Overall, while the exact age of the White Witch is not specified, it is evident that she is an ancient and formidable presence in Narnia, feared by its inhabitants and determined to maintain her tyrannical rule..

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