So a couple Christmases ago, I got an emergency whistle in my stocking. It was supposed to be deafeningly loud, so obviously not the sort of thing you blow on Christmas morning just to see what it sounds like. And let me tell you, pretty much that whole morning, I was dying to blow that whistle. Out of curiosity, and because I wasn’t supposed to. The next time I had the house to myself, it was one of the first things I did.
All of this to say, when Susan rode around with her horn strapped to her saddle, I wonder how often she was intrusively tempted to just pick it up and blow it? Was is hard to run around Narnia with a horn she was only supposed to blow when she was definitely, seriously, for-real in danger?
And more to the point, what about Caspian? Did he ride away from Dr. Cornelius with a little voice in the back of his head going blow the horn dude c'mon just blow it find out what it sounds like c'mon dude?
#susan was very fortunate to have a horn-justifying emergency within a couple of days#caspian demonstrated great restraint for a 13 year old
hey I’m sorry to fandom-pivot on your post but i really believe this lotr excerpt is relevant to your point because it features a grown man blowing his very loud war-horn for no apparent reason
Boromir had a long sword, in fashion like Anduril but of less lineage and he bore also a shield and his war-horn.
‘Loud and clear it sounds in the valleys of the hills,’ he said, and then let all the foes of Gondor flee!’ Putting it to his lips he blew a blast, and the echoes leapt from rock to rock, and all that heard that voice in Rivendell sprang to their feet.
'Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir, said Elrond. 'until you stand once more on the borders of your land, and dire need is on you.’
'Maybe,’ said Boromir
Elrond: don’t do that shit in my house again
Boromir: 😌
(via elen-aranel)
