Tag Archives: peter pan

Flittering Away

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Nathan

Scan by Jared Davis The 1990 Oziana is a professional issue, in that all the authors and illustrators actually do that for a living. Most of them had appeared in Oziana before this, and one of these stories was published … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dreams, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, alice liddell, alice's adventures in wonderland, amazing stories, birds, bucketheads in oz, bungle the glass cat, bzzzantium, cats, chapter three, dorothy gale, doves, fess, flittermouse, frogman, hungry tiger, in a season of calm weather, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, kalidahs, kericot the considerate kalidah, maybe the miffin, merry go round in oz, nine tiny piglets, nome king, oziana, Pablo Picasso, percy the personality kid, peter pan, professor wogglebug, rats, ray bradbury, robin brown, russet meagle, terrence oldshell, the fabulous frogman and the faith of freakish friends, the final fate of the frogman, the guardian dove, the salt sorcerer of oz and other stories, the wicked witch of oz, the wonder city of oz, thorns and private files in oz, troth, truth pond, virginia woolf, wendy darling, woot the wanderer | 3 Comments

Fiefdoms of the Fay

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Nathan

I wrote years ago about how, largely due to Shakespeare’s influence, Oberon and Titania are often regarded as the rulers of the fairies, appearing in a lot of different media. I mentioned a few other fairy queens in the post, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, British, Celtic, Characters, Christianity, Dreams, Fairy Tales, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Mythology, Names, Neil Gaiman, Norse, Oz, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, aesir, bebo, cuchulainn, daione sidhe, edmund spenser, elves, faerie queene, fairies, gloriana, iubdan, j.m. barrie, kenna, kensington garden, king ailill mac mata, king fergus mac leda, king finvarra, king henry viii, lurline, mercutio, oberon, peter pan, peter pan in kensington gardens, prose edda, queen elizabeth i, queen mab, queen medb, queen oona, romeo and juliet, snorri sturluson, stardust, tain bo cuailinge, tanaquill, thomas tickell, titania | 2 Comments

Magnoflex, Monster Masters, and Metroids

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Nathan

Just a few book and comic reviews this time, all stuff related to Oz or video games. Helda the Witch of Oz, by James Fuller – This is a series of five books, each one with a different color in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Comics, Dragon Quest, Humor, Magic, Metroid, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games | Tagged bini aru, dai no daibouken, deadtree, dino, dragon quest ii, dragon quest monsters, emblem of roto, erdrick, helda the blue witch of oz, helda the green witch of oz, helda the purple witch from oz, helda the red witch of oz, helda the witch of oz, helda the yellow witch of oz, james fuller, kandar, kraid, loran, mari yoshimura #2, marumo, mine yoshizaki, monster masters, nome king, pazuzu, peter pan, ridley, robbin' hood, samus aran, scalawagons, secret of evolution, tamkichi sakura, terry, the shape of happiness, winged monkeys, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Nonsense That Makes Sense

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Nathan

This Tor article presented the idea of mapping fantasy lands along two axes, nonsense vs. logic and virtue vs. wickedness. Obviously there’s a lot of opinion involved here, but the first thing I thought was kind of weird was Neverland … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged absurdism, alice in wonderland, his dark materials, imagination, james barrie, kingdom of wisdom, logic, metaphor, neverland, nonsense, norton juster, peter pan, philip pullman, puns, spirituality, The Phantom Tollbooth | 5 Comments

You’re a Crook, Captain Hook

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Nathan

The Annotated Peter Pan – I had read the book before without the annotations, but apparently didn’t have much to say about it. The annotated version, with notes by Maria Tatar, gives more details on how James Barrie developed the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged arthur rackham, captain james hook, fairies, james barrie, maria tatar, peter and wendy, peter pan, peter pan in kensington gardens, pirates, sylvia llewyllen davies, the annotated peter pan | Leave a comment

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

Just Another Day in Fairyland

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Nathan

The three books I’m reviewing this time all have to do with magical lands I’ve read about before. Board Stiff, by Piers Anthony – There’s really nothing new in this latest installment in the Xanth series, but hey, I’m a … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Chris Dulabone, Dave Barry, Marcus Mebes, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Xanth | Tagged board stiff, captain james hook, colorful corniness in oz, com pewter, fwiirp, j.m. barrie, peter and the starcatchers, peter pan, ridley pearson, skeezik and the mys-tree of oz, skeeziques | 2 Comments

Pan Theism

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Nathan

I’ve been planning for a little while to write a post on the association of Satan with goats, and the god Pan plays pretty heavily into this. Before I get to that, though, I think Pan deserves his own post, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Greek Mythology, Heroes of Olympus, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan | Tagged apollo, fauns, faunus, hermes, j.m. barrie, kenneth grahame, king midas, nymphs, pan, panes, peter pan, plutarch, satyrs, syrinx, the wind in the willows | 5 Comments

Pan-demonium

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Nathan

I had actually never seen the Disney version of Peter Pan before, although I had read the book and seen the teleplay with Mary Martin as Peter. Now that I’ve seen it, I have to say that I was surprised … Continue reading →

Posted in Fairy Tales, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged captain james hook, fairies, peter pan, tinker bell | 8 Comments

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Flittering Away

Fiefdoms of the Fay

Magnoflex, Monster Masters, and Metroids

Nonsense That Makes Sense

You’re a Crook, Captain Hook

Know Your Gnomes

Just Another Day in Fairyland

Pan Theism

Pan-demonium

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