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The Unreal World

I’d seen this map, created by Dan Meth, a few times before. It just showed up on Tumblr, and I love all the commentary it’s generated. I appreciate that Meth included places from television, movies, and video games (well, one … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Castlevania, Chronicles of Narnia, Dick Martin, Discworld, Dr. Seuss, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jonathan Swift, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Mega Man, Metroid, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Once Upon a Time, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Punch-Out, Television, Terry Pratchett, Ursula K. LeGuin, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, avalon, bill willingham, blefuscu, bridge to terabithia, camelot, crossovers, dan meth, dinosaurs, dinotopia, dreamlands, earthsea, emerald city, fables, fritz leiber, game of thrones, george macdonald, gulliver's travels, h.p. lovecraft, heaven, hesperides, horton hatches the egg, horton hears a who, hyrule, jaro hess, jonathan swift, jungle of nool, king arthur, king hippo, king midas, kingdom of dreams, krull, land of the lost, lankhmar, lilliput, michael ende, middle-earth, narnia, nehwon, neverland, once-ler, peter and wendy, peter pan, phantastes, rip van winkle, sir lancelot du lac, sodor, spirit tracks, the dark crystal, the fantasy world map, the land of make-believe, the last battle, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, the lorax, the neverending story, the pied piper of hamelin, the princess bride, the wonderful world of oz, thomas and friends, thra, timelines, tol eressea, tom thumb, videoland, washington irving, westeros, where the wild things are, whoville, wonderland |

Right City, Wrong World

One interesting aspect to Philip Jose Farmer’s A Barnstormer in Oz is his indication that the human inhabitants of Oz are descended from people who arrived there from our world, mostly Goths but also Celts and Native Americans. This sort … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Donkey Kong, L. Frank Baum, Language, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Prejudice, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged a barnstormer in oz, brooklyn, corumbia, diana ross, dinohattan, gypsies, kiltoon, mario kart tour, mifkets, mount mern, mushroom kingdom, narnia, nes open tournament golf, new donk city, new york city, philip jose farmer, silver island, sir hokus of pokes, super mario odyssey, telmar, the koopas are coming! the koopas are coming!, the wiz, the wonderful wizard of oz, toto of oz, uptown, wizard of oz |

Where the Worlds Have No Name

One night last week, I had a fitful sleep with a bunch of weird dreams. I remember one of them had me ranting about how J.R.R. Tolkien was never clear on whether Middle-Earth was his entire imaginary world or just … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Maps, March Laumer, Mario, Mythology, Names, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged alefgard, Arda, calormen, continent of imagination, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy vii, gaia, galaxies, hyrule, jupiter, mars, middle-earth, midgard, moon, mushroom world, narnia, nonestic ocean, planets, professor wogglebug, saturn, sun, super mario bros. 3, the royal book of oz, world tree, yggdrasil |

Take Out the Tash

While The Last Battle might well be the weakest book in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, I was always struck by the appearance of Tash, the bloodthirsty god of Calormen. This nation, located to the south of Narnia, is largely … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Islam, Judaism, Religion | Tagged arabian nights, archenland, arslan tash, aslan, babylon, bible, calormen, canaan, daniel, hell, jadis the white witch, narnia, nebuchadnezzar, prince rabadash, rishda tarkaan, shift the ape, susan pevensie, tash, the last battle |

Calendar Clues

We don’t know a whole lot about how the Ozian calendar works, but it does appear that the months are the same as ours, as indicated with Jack Pumpkinhead’s tombstones in The Road to Oz. Ruth Plumly Thompson was particularly … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged henry blossom, jack pumpkinhead, jeremy steadman, lurline, narnia, nome king, ozzy digest, peter brown, pirates in oz, prince bobo, rinkitink in oz, robert pattrick, robin hess, the blue emperor of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the gnome king of oz, the magic mirror of oz, the road to oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tir na nog, toto and the cats of oz, travelers' trees, tyler jones, unexplored territory in oz, wam, zim greenleaf |

‘Tis Terribly Odd in the Land of Nod

As a follow-up to my post on the Kingdom of Dreams near Oz, I feel I should mention some other examples of dream countries in other series. These places are often surreal and disturbing, and things are subject to change … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Dreams, Final Fantasy, Kirby, Lewis Carroll, Mario, Oz, Television, The Simpsons, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bart vs. the space mutants, bible, c.s. lewis, cain, cobrats, dream land, eden, king morpheus, kingdom of dreams, land of nod, link's awakening, little nemo, lord rhoop, mouser, narnia, nintendo power, piers anthony, pop star, simpsons arcade game, subcon, the wizard of oz, through the looking-glass, toad, wind fish, windsor mccay, xanth |