Lantern Waste

Lantern Waste is a fictional place in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. It is a wood and is notable as the place where Lucy Pevensie and Mr. Tumnus meet, which is the first scene of Narnia described in the books. The lamppost in the wood is an iconic image of Narnia, and the question of its origin is what convinced Lewis to write more than one book on Narnia. One of King Edmund's titles is Duke of Lantern Waste.^[PC]

The place where Digory, Polly, Frank the cabman, Strawberry the horse, Jadis and Uncle Andrew first enter the uncreated Narnia would become Lantern Waste. Jadis, angry and afraid at the sight of Aslan, immediately wants to kill him but her magic powers do not work so she needs a weapon. She improvises by throwing something at his head and the thing she happens to have in her hand at the time is a piece from a lamppost she'd taken from London. It falls to the ground without having any effect on Aslan when it hits him and does not appear to have hurt him at all. The fresh new fertile ground of Narnia causes anything that lands on it to sprout and grow, so the fragment sprouts into a full lamppost that shines day and night. The site of the lamppost is also where small trees of gold and silver grew from some dropped coins that were also brought from London by Mr Ketterly, Digory's wicked uncle. Those gold and silver trees would later be used to make King Frank's and Queen Helen's crowns, and they were also where Digory planted the Tree of Protection that kept Jadis away for many years.

When Lucy hides in a wardrobe in the Professor's house, she finds herself in Lantern Waste, where she meets Tumnus the Faun. Later her brother Edmund finds his way in and meets the White Witch there.

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