Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Why Peter & Susan Don't Return To Narnia

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Here's why Peter and Susan Pevensie didn't return for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The third installment of the rebooted Chronicles of Narnia movie series, The Voyage of the Dawn Trader sees siblings Lucy and Edmund Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, traveling over the seas of Narnia – but conspicuously absent from the adventure are the elder Pevensie siblings, Peter and Susan, who don't return to Narnia after being protagonists in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian.

The first two Fox/Disney-produced on-screen adaptations centered all four Pevensie children, giving each of them detailed character arcs throughout the Chronicles Of Narnia movies' timeline. Peter and Susan, however, only appeared briefly in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader after they were told by Aslan that they would be unable to return to Narnia after their departure at the end of Prince Caspian. This is consistent with the events of C.S. Lewis' novels, though the reasoning for the eldest Pevensies' inability to return differs between the books and the movies.

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While the Narnia novels have often been described as Christian allegory, author C.S. Lewis himself rejected this label, preferring to consider them «suppositional,» meaning he believed the purpose of the books was asking, «What if?» rather than presenting direct correlations between characters in the books and Christian theology. That said, among the primary theories for why Peter and Susan don't return to Narnia are their age and experiences. Here's why Peter and Susan never return to Narnia after the events of The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

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