The Northern Moors are the high moorlands beyond the River Shribble, a northern landmark that becomes the setting for the awakening of the giant associated with the end of the world. As the final night falls, the moors locate this cosmic event in Narnian geography: the giant stands there, raises his horn, and helps mark the passage from the old world to its ending.

Location and the Time-giant

From the open doorway where Aslan stands, the moors lie to the north beyond the River Shribble. In the darkness, the giant first appears as a shape against the stars, rising higher until the onlookers recognize him. Jill and Eustace recall having once encountered a great giant asleep in caves beneath these moors, where they were told he was Father Time and would wake on the day the world ended. Aslan explains the change in his name through the change in his state: while dreaming, he was called Time; awake, he will have a new name.

The Last Night

The giant raises a horn to his mouth on the moors. The watchers see the movement before they hear its sound, which arrives later because sound travels slowly. Its note is high and terrible, yet strangely beautiful. Immediately the sky fills with falling stars; as the starless emptiness spreads, they understand that Aslan has called the stars home. The stars descend as people, their silver-bright hair and metal-bright spears lighting the woods behind the doorway.

From the Old World to the New

The moors remain the giant’s position as the old world’s final destruction proceeds. After the sun and moon have joined into a fiery mass, Aslan commands, “Now make an end.” The giant throws his horn into the sea and reaches across the sky to squeeze the Sun in his hand; darkness follows. The Northern Moors thus frame not a local battle or refuge, but a threshold in the book’s ending: the landscape from which the awakening and final act of the old world are witnessed, before the survivors enter the beginning of the Great Story.