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Unequal Reprozentation

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Nathan

Picture by Jimmy Robinson I had observed before how L. Frank Baum didn’t do a whole lot with the Gillikin Country after introducing it The Marvelous Land of Oz, then had a lot happen there in his last three Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain salt in oz, emerald city, ev, gillikins, glinda, glinda of oz, grampa in oz, jinjur, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, merry go round in oz, munchkins, nome kingdom, nonestic ocean, ozana, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, professor wogglebug, quadlings, ragbad, speedy in oz, statistics, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tin castle, winkies | Leave a comment

Baum’s Diamond Swan Song

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Nathan

In the past three years, I’d gotten into the habit of rereading the main Oz book of focus before OzCon, which was canceled this year. I still intended to read Glinda of Oz, but I’d been putting it off because … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged bungle the glass cat, button-bright, dorothy gale, ervic, fairies, flatheads, gillikins, glinda, glinda of oz, great book of records, jack pumpkinhead, krumbic witch, lady aurex, magic belt, mrs. yoop, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork girl, pigs, queen coo-ee-oh, reera the red, rora flathead, skeezers, sorcerers, spiders, supreme dictator of the flatheads, swans, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, three adepts at magic, witches, wizards, yookoohoos | 2 Comments

Etymology in Oz

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Nathan

I bought a few old Baum Bugle issues at OzCon in Portland, and they have some interesting content. There was apparently a sometime recurring feature called “Footnotes to Oz” that explained names in the Oz series, written by Jerry Tobias. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Etymology, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bell-snickle, beowulf, betsy bobbin, boolooroo, christopher gise, corabia, dorothy and the wizard in oz, footnotes to oz, fred meyer, gabooches, gilbert and sullivan, gillikins, isle of phreex, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, jerry tobias, karwan bashi, mandrakes, mangaboos, martin gardner, menankypoo, michael patrick hearn, mogodore, munchkins, nikobo, nikobob, oogaboo, orcs, orks, para bruin, pastoria, pingaree, quiberon, rak, rocs, salye soforth, samandra, tarara, tattypoo, the baum bugle, the mikado, the tin woodman of oz, tik-tok of oz, tippetarius, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer | 4 Comments

Regional Ruler Report

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Nathan

While I’ve written before about the current rulers of the four main countries of Oz, as well as how these countries developed throughout the series, I haven’t said that much about the rulers of these places before the coming of … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dennis Anfuso, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged david hulan, dorothy gale, four views of general jinjur, frank joslyn baum, gayelette, gillikins, glenn ingersoll, glinda, gloma, greg hunter, gump, henry blossom, joe bongiorno, king cheeriobed, king gil of gilkenny, mombi, munchkins, mycroft mason, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, peg amy, princess azarine, princess cozytoes, quadlings, queen isomere, queen orin, queen pierita of amberly, realbad, seebania, the astonishing tale of the gump of oz, the blue emperor of oz, the enchanted gnome of oz, the gauds of oz, the giant horse of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the red desert of oz, the road to oz, the triumph of the wicked witch of the west, the wonderful wizard of oz, unc nunkie, wicked witch of the west, winkies | 10 Comments

Gillikin Geography

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Nathan

I’ve already written about the other three (four, if you count the Emerald City territory) segments of Oz, and even though I haven’t gotten much if any response to them, I’ve had fun writing them. So here’s the last of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged abra kadabra of oz, adventures in oz, bordermoor, forest of gugu, general quakes, gillikins, glinda of oz, gugu and the kalidahs, handy mandy in oz, hugh pendexter, james e. haff, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kalidahs, kimbaloo, king gugu, oziana, pumperdink, regalia, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the giant horse of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, toto of oz, uptown | 5 Comments

For I Am One Thousand Years Old

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Nathan

What’s generally considered the canonical Oz series starts with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and then continues to describe events that occurred after that story. There have been prequels written, but not until long afterwards, so most of the history … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dick Martin, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Onyx Madden/Jim Nitch, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged atlantis, critias, crunch the stone man, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragonettes, dragons, faleero, forbidden tube, forest of burzee, gillikins, hiergargo, joe bongiorno, king ato, lunarr and maureen in oz, lurline, montypuerto, munchkins, nome king, ozma, pinkaree, plato, randy hoffman, royal timeline of oz, stone age, the colorful kitten of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the sea fairies, the seven blue mountains of oz, the witch queen of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, wam, witches, wizard of oz, wunchie, zim greenleaf, zim greenleaf of oz, zog | 5 Comments

Oz in Four Parts

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Nathan

It seems that the division of Oz into separate countries is rather too neat, with all four countries being roughly the same size and shape, and each one color-coded. Is this just part of its being a magical fairyland, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Eloise Jarvis McGraw, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged gillikins, good witch of the north, king randywell, maps, munchkins, ojo in oz, quadlings, the forbidden fountain of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the purple prince of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, wicked witch of the west, winkies, woot the wanderer | 7 Comments

Country Colors

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Nathan

Today is L. Frank Baum’s birthday, and I’m making an Oz post. Granted, I do this pretty much every week, but still. Today’s subject is one that comes into play all the way back in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, … Continue reading →

Posted in John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged david hulan, eureka in oz, eureka the pink kitten, foolish owl, gillikins, high boy, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead of oz, king gugu, munchkins, number nine, patch, quadlings, scarecrow, sky island, snif the iffin, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the road to oz, the runaway in oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tippetarius, winkies, woozy | 4 Comments

You’re a Grand Oz Flag

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Nathan

The first mention of a flag for the Land of Oz appears in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, in which it’s described as such: “This flag was divided into four quarters, one being colored sky-blue, another pink, a third … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain salt in oz, dorothy and the wizard in oz, emerald city, flags, gillikins, munchkins, oziana, quadlings, robin olderman, the magic of oz, winkies | Leave a comment

Imagi-National Studies

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Nathan

Just as Middle-Earth is a European fantasy land, Oz is an American one. That said, does its geography have any basis in that of the United States? I would say there’s some. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the eastern … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged captain salt in oz, gillikins, grampa in oz, maps, middle-earth, munchkins, nonestic ocean, pacific ocean, pirates in oz, pumperdink, quadlings, ragbad, regalia, the wonderful wizard of oz, undying lands, winkies | 6 Comments

Tag Archives: gillikins

Unequal Reprozentation

Baum’s Diamond Swan Song

Etymology in Oz

Regional Ruler Report

Gillikin Geography

For I Am One Thousand Years Old

Oz in Four Parts

Country Colors

You’re a Grand Oz Flag

Imagi-National Studies

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