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The Offbeat Officials of Oz

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Nathan

The Oz books have a lot of small royal courts with unusually-titled officials. This is something we see much more often in Ruth Plumly Thompson, but L. Frank Baum did have a few examples. In John Dough and the Cherub, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aladdin, alibabble, baffleburg, bamboula, blufferroo, captain salt in oz, chick the cherub, chief chow chow, chief dipper, chief scarer, chief scorner, chief scrapper, chinda, dwarves, giants, gilbert and sullivan, grampa in oz, grand advizier, grand bozzywoz, grand chew chew, grand counter of the imperial spoons, hah hoh, handy mandy in oz, head booleywag, high coco-lorum, high qui-questioner, hippolorum, imperial persuader, jack pumpkinhead of oz, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kabumpo in oz, kimbaloo, king cheeriobed, king rinkitink, king sizzeroo, lord high humpus, lord high this and that, lord high upper dupper, mogodore, nox the ox, octagon isle, ojo in oz, out keeper, ozma, pat the prime patter, patch, perhaps city, peter brown, pirates in oz, pokes, preservatory, prime moneyster, prime piecer, prime preserve, prime pumper, pumperdink, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, royal scribbler, samandra, sapphire city, sauce box, scare city, sevenanone, silver island, silver mountain, sky island, smerker, snorpus, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, supposyville, supposyville goes toboganning, swing city, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the horse and his boy, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the mikado, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the yellow knight of oz, thi, tighty, toddledy, town crier, town laugher, umbrella island, unicorners, unicorns, vizier | Leave a comment

Automa-Tons of Fun

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Nathan

During a discussion of Ozma of Oz at the most recent OzCon International, Lee Speth proposed that, while Tik-Tok was not the first mechanical man in modern literature, he was perhaps the first artificial intelligence. L. Frank Baum himself had … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged aa the salt sorcerer, artificial intelligence, auto-dragons, captain battery batt, cast-iron man, clank, clocker, clockwise, dot and tot of merryland, entropy, fred meyer, giant with the hammer, henry blossom, hundred-year alarm clock, jack breton, kadj the conjurer, king scowleyow, ku-klip, larry breton, little pink bear, mooj, mr. split, ozma of oz, ozwoz, pirates in oz, r.k. lionel, red jinn, robert pattrick, robots, smith and tinker, the braided man of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the master crafters of oz, the ork in oz, the purple prince of oz, the runaway in oz, the salt sorcerer of oz, the wicked witch of oz, thi, tik-tok, wizard of oz | 2 Comments

Use Your Illusion

Posted on September 16, 2017 by Nathan

There’s a fair amount of magic in the Oz series based on illusion, although exactly what that indicates is a little ambiguous. An illusion is a distortion of sensory input, different from a hallucination in that that actually is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Discworld, Edward Einhorn, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged delusion, glinda of oz, guardian of the muffin tree, hallucination, illusion, invisibility, mombi, mount phantastico, phanfasms, queen of the field-mice, queen zixi of ix, scarecrow, shadow mountain, the emerald city of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the living house of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, thi, tin woodman, transformation, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

You Will Be Assimilated

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Nathan

It’s become a cliché in the Oz series that the magical land is full of insular themed communities where the inhabitants either want to turn visitors into beings like them, or sometimes just keep them as slaves. In Ruth Plumly … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged benny, blankenburg, bookville, bunbury, cave city, chimneyville, china country, clockwise, crystal city, david perry, delves, dogs, double up, gapers, good children, headland, hummingbirds, icetown, jack pott, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo, monday mountain, ojo, patch, patchwork girl, peter brown, play, pokes, preservatory, rith metic, round-abouties, scare city, scarecrow, sir hokus of pokes, spiders, stair way, suds, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the wicked witch of oz, thi, tidy town, tin woodman, turn town, view-halloo, wyndups | 3 Comments

Walking in a Winkie Wonderland

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Nathan

The geography of Oz is pretty complicated, with new communities often seeming to appear out of nowhere. You’d think it would have been thoroughly explored by now, but apparently not. L. Frank Baum did make a map of the nation, … Continue reading →

Posted in John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged emerald city, fix city, grampa in oz, herku, lucky bucky in oz, maybe mountains, monday mountain, oogaboo, patch, perhaps city, pokes, roads, suds, the emerald city of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, thi, winkie river, winkies, yellow brick road | 2 Comments

The Wonderful Whistles of Oz

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Nathan

I mentioned in my post on the warp whistles in Super Mario Bros. 3 that there were some magic whistles in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, although as far as I know none of them summoned the tornado. One is … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mario, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games | Tagged badmannah, bandbox, box wood, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, field-mice, gayelette, gili bar-hillel, glinda, high coco-lorum, jack pumpkinhead, king randywell, magical musical snuffbox, man-eating plants, nome king, number nine, ojo in oz, opodock, orchestra and glee club, ozma of oz, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, pokes, queen of the field-mice, red jinn, silver whistle, singra, sir hokus of pokes, sun top mountain, super mario bros. 3, the fairy's silver trumpet, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway in oz, the silver princess in oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's tale, the yellow knight of oz, thi, tin woodman, tune town, warp whistles, wicked witch of the west, witches, yankee in oz | 6 Comments

How to Succeed in Ozian Politics

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Nathan

When Benny, the living statue from Boston in Ruth Plumly Thompson’s The Giant Horse of Oz, arrives in Oz, he asks the Scarecrow if the country is a republic. The straw man replies, “Indeed not! We are a magic monarchy … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged american fairy tales, aurex, awgwas, benny, blue country, book of royalty, bookville, boolooroo of the blues, bunnybury, dorothy gale, giants, glinda, gloria, high coco-lorum, james haff, jenny jump, jinxland, king bal loon, king gugu, king timothy of noland, krewl, land o' patch, loonville, macvelt, nandywog, nickadoodle, noland, ozlection, ozma, patch, patchwork girl, pink country, polychrome, professor wogglebug, queen coo-ee-oh, scarecrow, septentria, skeezers, sky island, skyle of un, susan smiggs, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the queen of quok, the scarecrow of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonder city of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, thi, tin woodman, tripedalia, trot griffiths, whimsies, wicked witch of the west, winkies, wizard of oz | 6 Comments

Thi Master

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Nathan

One of the odd communities that seem to show up whenever an Oz book needs a bit of padding is the city of Thi, which appears in The Lost Princess of Oz. Located in the wild part of the Winkie … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Oz, Oz Authors, Places | Tagged a refugee in oz, david hulan, dragons, high cockalorum, high coco-lorum, kim mcfarland, rinkitink in oz, the bouncy bunnies in oz, the glass cat of oz, the lost princess of oz, thi, thists | 8 Comments

Woodn’t It Bee Gneiss?

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Nathan

Knot Gneiss, by Piers Anthony – This is the thirty-fourth book in the Xanth series, and really, there’s not much new here. The fact that Anthony acknowledges his plots are formulaic doesn’t change the fact that they ARE formulaic. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Xanth | Tagged knot gneiss, the bouncy bunnies in oz, thi, thists, thora sunnydee, thornton etchasketch | 3 Comments

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The Offbeat Officials of Oz

Automa-Tons of Fun

Use Your Illusion

You Will Be Assimilated

Walking in a Winkie Wonderland

The Wonderful Whistles of Oz

How to Succeed in Ozian Politics

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