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[[Image:Arbol.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The Field of Arbol. Image of the Solar System annotated with the Old Solar names of the celestial bodies.]]
'''The Field of Arbol''' refers to the fictional [[Solar System]] used by [[C.S. Lewis]] as the setting for his [[The Space Trilogy|Space Trilogy]]. While it comprises the same [[Celestial bodies|celestial bodies]] as in the real Solar System, there are significant differences in planetary geology, and history; including non-human indigenous extra-terrestrial civilisations.
The [[Old Solar]] names used for the bodies in the Field of Arbol are:
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![[IAU]] Name !! Old Solar Name
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| [[Sun|The Sun]] || [[Arbol]]
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| [[Mercury]] || [[Mercury in fiction|Viritrilbia]]
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| [[Venus]] || [[Perelandra]]
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| [[Earth]] || [[Earth in fiction|Thulcandra]] (''The Silent Planet'')
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| [[Moon|The Moon]] || [[Moon in art and literature|Sulva]]
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| [[Mars]] || [[Malacandra]]
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| [[Asteroid Belt]] || ''The dancers before the threshold of the Great Worlds''
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| [[Jupiter]] || [[Jupiter in fiction|Glundandra]] (''Glund'')
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| [[Saturn]] || [[Saturn in fiction|Lurga]]
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| [[Uranus]] || [[Uranus in fiction|Neruval]]
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| [[Neptune]]|| Not attested
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==Languages==
Though not as fully realised as the languages devised by [[Tolkien]] for [[Middle-earth]]; Lewis described three languages used in the Field of Arbol.
*[[Old solar|'''Old Solar''']] – also known as: '''Hlab-Eribol-ef-Cordi''', language of the Fields of Arbol; '''Hressa-Hlab''' (erroneously), language of the hrossa; the Great Tongue; Language Herself; the language of [[Maleldil]] - spoken throughout the Field of Arbol, except in Thulcandra and Sulva.
*[[Sunibur|'''Surnibur''']] – the language of the [[Sorns]]. Spoken in the Highlands of Malacandra.
*[[Pfifltriggi|Language of the Pfifltriggi]] – spoken in the Great Valleys of Malacandra.
==See also==
==References==
*David C. Downing. ''Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of CS Lewis's Ransom Trilogy''. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
*Martha C. Sammons. ''A Guide Through CS Lewis' Space Trilogy''. Westchester, IL: Cornerstone Books, 1980.
==External links==
* [http://webstudent7.basd.k12.wi.us/index.html Languages of the Out of the Silent Planet Trilogy] – site discussing the languages of the Field of Arbol described in [[The Space Trilogy]]
*[http://www.malacandra.co.uk Malacandra.co.uk], a Wiki for CS Lewis fans.
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