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Posted on September 13, 2022 by Nathan

The 2000 Oziana has some fun stories, but a dearth of illustrations, pretty much just using repurposed John R. Neill art. The cover is an exception, but it’s just the standard logo that the International Wizard of Oz Club used … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Fred Otto, Health, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged button-bright, cats, dogs, emerald city, fairies, faleero, flying cloak of invisibility, forest of burzee, good witch of the north, haiku, international wizard of oz club, jenny jump, king pompus, matiah, oziana, ozma, ozma fights the sniffles, pastoria, percy vere, pigasus, pigs, princess pajonia, pumperdink, robin olderman, the banishment of faleero, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the invisible fairy of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous menagerie, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, toto, two-two, wizard of oz | 3 Comments

$ave! $ave! $ave!

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Nathan

Maybe it’s because of role-playing video games where you have to buy a bunch of stuff for your quest, but I tend to associate fantasy lands with wandering merchants. That sounds so much classier than traveling salesmen, even though I … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Dick Martin, Economics, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, William Shakespeare | Tagged bitty bit, braided man, button-bright of oz, carter green, charming cheetah, chauncey chance, chuck sabatos, doorways, harry mongold, jandar, jandy, kimbaloo, levimeyerabloch, lin carter, matiah, merchants, merry go round in oz, miss annabelinda, money, nimmie amee, oziana, packer, peddlers, roundabout, shylock, skampavia, the cowardly lion of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic mirror of oz, the merchant of oz, the merchant of venice, the merry mountaineer of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the tired tailor of oz, the wishing horse of oz, till orangespiegel, tin woodman, uncle henry and aunt em of oz, wam | 2 Comments

Know Your Gnomes

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Nathan

I’ve been looking into the portrayal of various mythical peoples in works of fiction, and it seems to me that some are much better defined than others. I asked earlier today on Twitter and Facebook what people thought of when … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Fairy Tales, Games, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Xanth | Tagged bism, david bowie, deep-elves, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elementals, elves, fairies, george macdonald, gnomes, goblins, j.m. barrie, jareth, kabumpo in oz, labyrinth, matiah, noldor, nome king, nomes, orcs, ozma of oz, paracelsus, peter pan, pirates in oz, polychrome, salamanders, sherwood smith, silmarils, the emerald city of oz, the hobbit, the princess and the goblin, the road to oz, the silver chair, the wishing horse of oz, tinker bell | 7 Comments

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