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Tag Archives: royal timeline of oz
The Need for Speedy
The 1996 Oziana is unusual in that it contains only one story, Umbrella Island in Oz, by Ruth Waara. As such, it’s kind of weird that the cover picture has nothing to do with it, instead being a Dick Martin … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Dick Martin, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Television
Tagged agree filtre, chameleons, cinderbutton the witch, dinosaurs, dorothy gale, international wizard of oz club, ivan montebank, joe bongiorno, ken cope, king sizzeroo, magic belt, oziana, pigasus, pirates in oz, princess gureeda, robin olderman, royal timeline of oz, ruth waara, speedy, speedy in oz, terrybubble, the magic cryptogram of oz, the wishing horse of oz, umbrella island, umbrella island in oz, waddy, witches, wizards
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Pearls Before Nomes
I was thinking about doing an Oziana reread, as I know there were aspects of some of the stories I wanted to explore further. Last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the journal, and the International Wizard of Oz Club … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, March Laumer, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged bill eubank, button-bright of oz, cowardly lion, crinklink, dr. watson, eric gjovaag, foxville, giants, harry mcnaught, harry mongold, heartless: the story of the tin man, hungry tiger, international wizard of oz club, joe bongiorno, johnny dooit, kaliko, lions, little golden books, nome king, nomes, owls, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, royal timeline of oz, ruth berman, sherlock holmes, sherlock holmes in oz, sir arthur conan doyle, sir hokus of pokes, steampunk, the cowardly lion changes his name, the patchwork girl and the giant, the red desert of oz, the road to oz, the sawhorse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok takes a trip, tin woodman, wizard of oz
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Gnomic Utterances
I recently read Ruth Berman’s Dunkiton Pamphlet on Gnome Matters, including a history of gnomes, touching on their use in the Oz books. I’ve written about this topic before, like how the name might well have originated with Paracelsus, who … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Dulabone, Eric Shanower, Fairy Tales, German, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged bucketheads in oz, delves, demons, dunkiton press, edward r. blanchard, elementals, enilrul, eva katharine gibson, fairies, fire fairies, frank joslyn baum, gnome king, gnome matters, gnomes, gnomides, goblins, gold panners, goldemar, greg hunter, isabel johnston, j. l. bell, jimmy bulber of oz, joe bongiorno, julia brown, kaliko, knarls, margaret berg, nome king, nomes, number-nip, nymphs, paracelsus, polychrome, quar, royal timeline of oz, rubezahl, ruth berman, sherwood smith, the emerald city mirror, the enchanted gnome of oz, the gnome king and the good fairy of the silver mine, the hidden prince of oz, the jeweled toad, the life and adventures of santa claus, the purple prince of oz, the reading tree of oz, the three threads, the tik-tok man of oz, the witch queen of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, w. w. denslow, william brough, zauberlinda the wise witch
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Magical Law Enforcement
As per The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Ozma has banned the practice of magic for everyone in the Land of Oz aside from Glinda and her student, the Wizard of Oz. It’s interesting that this doesn’t include the Good Witch … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Edward Einhorn, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized
Tagged dorothy gale, dr. pipt, faleero, fanny the weather witch, glinda, glinda of oz, gloma, good witch of the north, herku, jenny jump, lucky bucky in oz, mooj, mrs. yoop, number nine, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, ozwoz, paul dana, pumperdink, reera the red, royal timeline of oz, spiders, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the law of oz, the living house of oz, the lost princess of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the runaway in oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, witches, wizard of oz, wumbo, yookoohoos
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Zeebee and ze Bee
The Spelling Bee of Oz, by Robin Hess – The follow-up to Toto and the Cats of Oz has two new visitors to the fairyland. Elizabeth Warren from California, or Zeebee for short, is captured by the Nome King Korph, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors
Tagged alexander volkov, crows, dorothy and old king crow, dorothy and the seven-leaf clover, dorothy haas, hip-po-gy-raf, joe bongiorno, kalidahs, magic land, ozma, robin hess, royal timeline of oz, scarecrow, spelling bee, the spelling bee of oz, toto, toto and the cats of oz
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I Want to Ragnarok All Night
I just recently finished reading the Eternals Saga from Marvel’s The Mighty Thor, which originally ran from 1979 through 1980. Comics Recommended gives a good overview of the saga in three parts, but I’m going to say a bit about … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Jeff Rester, Magnus Chase, Marcus Mebes, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Science
Tagged as the rainbow follows the rain, asgard, astrology, athena, axial precession, baldur, bible, brunhilda, celestials, doctor strange, eternals, eternals saga, hela, hermes, jesus, joe bongiorno, krishna, loki, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, midgard, mjolnir, odin, oziana, ragnarok, revelation, richard wanger, ring cycle, royal timeline of oz, shiva, siegfried, siegmund, sif, the mighty thor, the sword of summer, thor, valkyries, zeus, zodiac
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I Wanted Eternal Youth, But Not THAT Much Youth!
I remembered having read this Oz story before, but I forgot where I’d seen it. It’s an interesting take on the issue of aging in Oz, which I’ve tackled in the past without any definite conclusions. L. Frank Baum says … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Edward Einhorn, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged aging, babies, david hulan, death, dorothy and the wizard in oz, fat babies, glinda, hungry tiger, immortality, immortals, joe bongiorno, kabumpo in oz, lurline, michael patrick hearn, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, paradox in oz, paul dana, pregnancy, royal timeline of oz, the annotated wizard of oz, the lost king of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the temptation of the hungry tiger, the tin woodman of oz, the witch queen of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, time travelers of oz, tin woodman, wizard of oz
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Everything But the Kitchen Sink in Oz
It often seems to be the case that people who read Oz books by authors other than L. Frank Baum when they were young accept them as official, while those who read them later are a little more wary of … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged continuity, famous forty, fanfiction, james thurber, joe bongiorno, maud gage baum, mrs. yoop, nome king, oz vs authors, patrick maund, robert pattrick, royal timeline of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway in oz, the rundelstone of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, unexplored territory in oz
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