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Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve previously reviewed the 2016 Oziana, which consists of fifteen different alternate endings for Rinktink in Oz. I thought I should say a little more about each one, however, so here we go. Susan Johnson starts out by going in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a child's garden, aaron solomon adelman, andrew heller, baruch adelman, bilbil, christopher m. diket, dorothy gale, eggs, eleanor kennedy, ev, fix city, flattown, george van buren, gilgad, goats, high faluting city, how to be good, invisible inzi of oz, jackdaws, james bond, john w. kennedy, karen diket, king anko, king gos of regos, king rinkitink, kuik blackbab, maggie lockett, magic belt, mariah b'forre, mermaids, musicton, nikobob, nome king, nome kingdom, ouija board, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, pearls of pingaree, prince bobo of boboland, prince inga of pingaree, puns, queen aquareine, queen cor of coregos, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, roodnite, sarah hadley, scarecrow, susan johnson, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway of oz, three trick caverns, toto and the cats of oz, tune town, virginia and robert wauchope, walkingbury, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizards, zog | 4 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

Riches Do Not Bring Contentment (But Neither Does Poverty)

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Nathan

Throughout the works of L. Frank Baum, we’re constantly seeing praise of contentment. The last chapter of The Marvelous Land of Oz is called “The Riches of Content,” and Ozma tells the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman that these are the … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy | Tagged animal fairy tales, betsy bobbin, contentment, emerald city, greed, luxury, money, nikobob, nome king, ozma, rinkitink in oz, shaggy man, the discontented gopher, the emerald city of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, tik-tok of oz, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Monsters’ Ball

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Nathan

I figured an appropriate Ozzy topic for this time of year would be the ferocious monsters that live there. I’ve already covered a few of them, including the Kalidahs, the Hip-po-gy-raf, and Quiberon. Here are some of the others that … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Oz | Tagged captain salt in oz, chiss, choggenmugger, combineroceros, dennis anfuso, dick martin, dorothy gale, gigaboo, goblins, guardian of the muffin tree, john r. neill, kabumpo, king anko, king ato, king randywell, l. frank baum, mo, mombi, monsters, nikobob, ojo, ojo in oz, oogaboo, pingaree, prince jollikin, princess melody, private jo files, purple dragon, rachel cosgrove payes, rak, realbad, red jinn, regos, rinkitink in oz, roc, scarecrow, sea serpent, snoctorotomus, snufferbux, the astonishing tail of the gump of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the oz-wonderland war, the ozmapolitan of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tyrannicus terrificus, weenix | 12 Comments

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Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

Etymology in Oz

Riches Do Not Bring Contentment (But Neither Does Poverty)

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