When Augray the Sorn meets Ransom, he correctly surmises that he must be from a planet with stronger gravity than Malacandra. Humans are the hnau of Thulcandra, and many people are mentioned throughout the Space Trilogy. The Un-man is also of Earthly origin, and possesses Weston's body. (From left to right) Viritrilbia, Perelandra, Thulcandra and Malacandra.Įarth is the home of the narrator and the main hero of the novels Elwin Ransom, as well as Weston, Devine and others. People from Earth are thus known as Thulcandrians or Tellurians. There is a similarity between the first syllable of Thulcandra and the name Tellus, but it is never made clear whether that is coincidental. 'Tellus' is an old Latin name for 'earth' or 'soil'. This is due to the fact is ruled by a ' bent' Oyarsa. 'Thulcandra' is the name in Old Solar, meaning 'silent planet', because the other planets do not hear from it. Its moon is far bigger than any of the other planets in terms of proportion, especially when compared to the Malacandrian moons. Like Malacandra, Glundandra, Lurga and Neruval, it has its own moon, Sulva which is also a battleground between good and evil forces, because it falls within this blockade. Earth is considered a fallen world, under the control of the Bent Oyarsa, so the other planets do not have control over it.

It is the subject of an interplanetary blockade - hence its name, the Silent Planet because there is no communication between it and the other planets. Thulcandra is also the only planet to appear in all the novels - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength and The Dark Tower. It is between Perelandra (Venus) and Malacandra (Mars), and one of the four Inner Worlds, along with Viritrilbia (Mercury), making it one of the newer members of the Solar System.

Lewis's Space Trilogy, Earth, also known as Thulcandra (meaning the Silent Planet) or Tellus, is the third planet in the Solar System or Field of Arbol.

There everyone had lived and everything had happened and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of an empty house near Sterk.” - Out of the Silent Planet Thulcandra, the Silent Planet “ It was all there in that little disc- London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare.

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