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Getting to Nome You
The physical appearance of the Nome King was something that came up recently in an online chat, and we have a pretty good description when he first appears in Ozma of Oz: “This important monarch of the Underground World was … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Characters, Gender, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged angelica shirley carpenter, dorothy gale, eggs, imps, kabumpo in oz, kaliko, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, magic belt, mardi gras, mary lenard, matriarchy, nome king, nome kingdom, nomes, ozma, ozma of oz, ozma sorceresses and suffrage, patriarchy, pirates in oz, polychrome, rinkitink in oz, santa claus, sexism, sherwood smith, the baum bugle, the characters of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the magic of oz, the nome king, the tik-tok man of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tik-tok and the nome king, tik-tok of oz |
Rustles and Flutters
It’s that time again, and here’s the 1997 Oziana. The cover shows an Oz shield that was made to be colored in, but I never did. Original illustrations are sparse this time, and many of them just repurposed John R. Neill … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Families, Fred Otto, Games, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a cozy castle in oz, a generic oz story, beenie in oz, big enough mountain, braided man, button-bright, computer virozes, computer viruses, danny wall, dave hardenbrook, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragons, eleanor kennedy, emerald city, forever in oz, frank joslyn baum, gili bar-hillel, glinda, imps, international wizard of oz club, jeremy steadman, john n. white, junk mail, karyl carlson, oziana, ozma, ozzy digest, patchwork girl, percy vere, percy's problematic poetry, prince pompadore, professor wogglebug, pyramid mountain, robin olderman, ruby imp, the abcs of oz, the braided man of oz, the dollmaker of oz, the forbidden cave of grapelandia, the haunted castle of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the lost princess of oz, the oz gazette, the seven blue mountains of oz, theresa hogue, tin woodman, transformation, tyler jones, ugu the shoemaker, wishes, wizard of oz, word find, zim greenleaf of oz |
Baum’s Birthday Blowout
Yesterday was L. Frank Baum’s birthday, and the day before that, Michael Booth set up a virtual event to celebrate. There weren’t that many attendees, but it included presentations, and I’m too disorganized and socially awkward to arrange something like … Continue reading →
Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Chris Dulabone, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aging, death, enilrul, hank and the scarecrow of oz, immortality, imps, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead and the sawhorse, little dorothy and toto, lurline, michael booth, ojo and the woozy, oz film manufacturing company, ozma and the little wizard, philip john lewin, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, robert pattrick, sky island, squirrel king, the lavender bear of oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the patchwork girl of oz, the three imps of oz, tim tucker, wizard of oz |
The Hammer and the Hood
I started playing Dragon Quest Builders recently, and there’s a place you visit early on that’s full of Hammerhoods, and even called Hammerhood Heights. These are a type of monster originally introduced in DQ5, small impish creatures who, well, wear … Continue reading →
Posted in British, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, German, Humor, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Scottish, Video Games | Tagged bodkin bowyers, brownies, clobberina, demons, dragon quest builders, dragon quest tact, dragon quest v, dragon quest viii, dragon quest x, dragonlord, elves, emcee hammerhood, fairies, final fantasy mystic quest, goblins, goldhammer, hammerhoods, hammers, imps, knockers, kobolds, mint mints, night clubbers, ogans, ogres, oni, redcaps, trolls |
Monster Masters
I might as well review the books related to the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series that I received for my birthday, since I’ve finished reading them. Dragon Quest Illustrations, by Akira Toriyama – This collects some of Toriyama’s drawings … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, chocobos, demons, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest illustrations, dragon quest iv, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragonlord, dragons, final fantasy lost stranger, final fantasy ultimania archive, grandmaster nimzo, greattree, hazuki minase, imps, itsuki kameya, king satan, kleo, manga, milly, mine yoshizaki, minotaur, moogles, murdaw, shogo sasaki, slib, slimes, square enix, terry, watabou, xenlon, yoshitaka amano, yuko sasaki, zoma |
I Like Birds
When I linked to my last Oz post on Facebook, people gave a few more examples of birds I hadn’t mentioned, including some people turned into birds and other birds from authors outside the Famous Forty. I believe the first … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, David Tai, Edward Einhorn, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, Hugh Pendexter, Jack Snow, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Marcus Mebes, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged barry klein, beak the parrot, becky klein, benny the gander, birds, borderbirds, bordermoor, bush-birds, canaries, chickens, corina, crows, cuckoo clocks, cuckoos, cyrune, david hulan, diplomatic immunity, dorothy gale, doves, ducks, eagles, falcons, faleero, ganders, geese, glinda of oz, golden witch, goldfinches, good witch of the north, grampa, grampa in oz, great grey gillikin swamp, hawks, imps, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kiki aru, little wizard stories of oz, magic belt, magpies, mimics, mogodore, mombi, mooj, nome king, ojo in oz, ostriches, owls, ozma, ozma and the little wizard, pajuka, paradox in oz, parrot island, parrots, patchwork girl, phanfasms, pirates, pirates in oz, pocotristi sostenuto, polychrome, prince bobo, queen coo-ee-oh, queen klurookuk, ravens, rinkitink in oz, seagulls, shaggy man, sir hokus of pokes, sky island, slyddwyn, snip, sparrows, swans, tempus the parrot-ox, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat in oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the glass cat of oz, the hidden prince of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the royal book of oz, the royal explorers of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, thorns and private files in oz, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tommy kwikstep and the magpie, transformation, trot griffiths, ugu the shoemaker, vultures, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer, yeksh |
Sorcerous Servitude
I don’t know where the idea of supernatural beings assisting magicians originated, but perhaps the most prominent example are the jinn that will serve anyone who releases them from bottles. King Solomon is said to have had a ring that … Continue reading →
Posted in Arabian, Atticus Gannaway, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adam nicolai, aladdin, alexander volkov, dearest mother, demon of electricity, demons, dinner bell, gayelette, ginger, gludwig and the red hair, golden cap, handy mandy in oz, himself the elf, imps, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jikki, jinn, johnny dooit, kabumpo, king solomon, opodock, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, silver hammer, the disenchanted princess of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the master key, the queen of quok, the road to oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the silver princess in oz, the silver sorceress of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, torpedo town, torpedodo, whistles, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches, wunchie, yankee in oz |
Monster Jam
When I discuss mythological beings, I usually like to mention when they appear in video games, with the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series being two of the main candidates. Then again, some of the video game monsters are true … Continue reading →
Posted in Dragon Quest, Focus on the Foes, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, archdemon, aswang, bag o' laughs, belial, bloody hand, bullwong, canniboxes, demonites, demons, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest vii, drolls, druins, final fantasy iv, gold golems, golems, goodybag, goopi, graboopi, gremlins, imps, kiling machines, lunaticks, mech hunters, mimics, mindemons, muddy hand, ozwargs, robots, torneko taloon, urnexpecteds, well demons, zarlox, zebbot |
Mission: Imp Ossible
Growing up with various fantasy universes in books, video games, and other media, I frequently came across names of magical beings that weren’t always consistently defined. I’ve already discussed many of these, but as of yet I haven’t said a … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, British, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Discworld, Eric Shanower, Etymology, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, Japanese, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged 8-bit theater, buddy holly, final fantasy vi, frank joslyn baum, garland, gau, goblins, ice imps, imp y celyn, imps, kappa, kimberly frodelius, little wizard stories of oz, milt youngren, ozma, ozma and the little wizard of oz, queen zixi of ix, ruby imp, soul music, sound imps, the enchanted island of yew, the ice king of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the three imps of oz, toto in oz, witches, wizard of oz |