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Woman, What Have You Done with the King?

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Nathan

The Lost King of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – I first read this in junior high, along with many of the other post-Baum Oz books. Here are my thoughts on my most recent reread, and it does include SPOILERS. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, Dreams, Food, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged back woods, benny, bill the weather-cock, blankenburg, cats, catty corners, dorothy gale, elephants, fairies, geese, glinda, grampa in oz, humpy the dummy, kabumpo, kimbaloo, lurline, magic picture, mombi, ozma, pajuka, pastoria, professor wogglebug, scooters, snip the button boy, the giant horse of oz, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, witches, wizard of oz | 7 Comments

All Together Again

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Nathan

It’s interesting that the Land of Oz seems to become more unified over the course of the series, and in fact over the first few books. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz doesn’t even make it entirely clear where the main … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged boq, donald abbott, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, emerald city, glinda, gloma, good witch of the north, hammer-heads, how the wizard came to oz, jinjur, kimbaloo, mombi, ozma, ozma of oz, pastoria, paul dana, queen orin, scarecrow, seebania, singra, the magic umbrella of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, tippetarius, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, winged monkeys, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

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

I’d Turn Back If I Were You

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Nathan

There was a second Virtual OzCon yesterday, this one with a Halloween theme, which means it addressed some of the potentially darker aspects of the series. There are some SPOILERS in here for several Oz books and the film Return … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Dreams, Edward Einhorn, Eric Shanower, Halloween, Holidays, Hugh Pendexter, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television | Tagged buddy ebsen, capital punishment, cinar, dina schiff massachi, dorothy and the magic belt, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, erica olivera, good witch of the north, his majesty the scarecrow of oz, jack and larry brenton, jack pumpkinhead, journey back to oz, kiki ebsen, kimbaloo, mombi, oz and the three witches, ozcon international, ozma, paradox in oz, pastoria, paul dana, return to oz, susan saunders, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ork in oz, the wizard of oz (1939), tik-tok, tippetarius, walter murch, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

$ave! $ave! $ave!

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Nathan

Maybe it’s because of role-playing video games where you have to buy a bunch of stuff for your quest, but I tend to associate fantasy lands with wandering merchants. That sounds so much classier than traveling salesmen, even though I … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Dick Martin, Economics, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, William Shakespeare | Tagged bitty bit, braided man, button-bright of oz, carter green, charming cheetah, chauncey chance, chuck sabatos, doorways, harry mongold, jandar, jandy, kimbaloo, levimeyerabloch, lin carter, matiah, merchants, merry go round in oz, miss annabelinda, money, nimmie amee, oziana, packer, peddlers, roundabout, shylock, skampavia, the cowardly lion of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic mirror of oz, the merchant of oz, the merchant of venice, the merry mountaineer of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the tired tailor of oz, the wishing horse of oz, till orangespiegel, tin woodman, uncle henry and aunt em of oz, wam | 2 Comments

Gillikin Geography

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Nathan

I’ve already written about the other three (four, if you count the Emerald City territory) segments of Oz, and even though I haven’t gotten much if any response to them, I’ve had fun writing them. So here’s the last of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged abra kadabra of oz, adventures in oz, bordermoor, forest of gugu, general quakes, gillikins, glinda of oz, gugu and the kalidahs, handy mandy in oz, hugh pendexter, james e. haff, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kalidahs, kimbaloo, king gugu, oziana, pumperdink, regalia, the blue witch of oz, the crocheted cat of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the giant horse of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the silver princess in oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, toto of oz, uptown | 5 Comments

Don’t Pester the Jester

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Nathan

Continuing with the April Fools’ theme, I thought I’d look at some court fools in the Oz series. There’s some overlap here with the poets and rhymers. For instance, the Rhyming Dictionary was the Book of Royalty’s jester until he … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Chris Dulabone, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bamboula, book of royalty, bunnybury, china country, clowns, corumbia, dorothy of oz, emerald city, fools, gayelette, grampa in oz, hah hoh, happy toko, jesters, kimbaloo, king capers, king cheeriobed, martin hopwell, melody grandy, monday mountain, mr. joker, palumbo, patchwork girl, peter pun, play, queen celestia, rhyming dictionary, rimmers, roger baum, sapphire city, scarecrow, silver island, speedy in oz, summer saltin, the emerald city of oz, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the lost king of oz, the royal book of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tippetarius in oz, town crier, umbrella island, wicked witch of the west | 3 Comments

Mystery, Ancient and Modern

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Nathan

I remember someone on the old Nonestica mailing list asking why it seems that no Ozites knew the history of their country, and it’s definitely a valid point. In The Lost King of Oz, we read, “Snip knew the names … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged dorothy and the wizard in oz, fairies, glinda, handy mandy in oz, keretaria, kimbaloo, lurline, mombi, nox the ox, ozma, pastoria, paul dana, professor wogglebug, snip the button boy, the emerald city of oz, the lost king of oz, time travelers of oz, water of oblivion, witches, wizard of oz | 20 Comments

No Money, Mo’ Problems

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Nathan

As I said back in this post, whether or not Oz uses some form of money is no more consistent than many other aspects of the series. Certainly the earlier books show money in use, with children paying for green … Continue reading →

Posted in Communism, Dick Martin, Economics, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Socialism | Tagged bill the weather-cock, david hulan, down town, emerald city, general quakes, glinda of oz, gold, grampa, grampa in oz, halidom, j. l. bell, jinxland, kiki aru, kimbaloo, king kinda jolly, king pompus, little wizard stories of oz, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, money, mooj, nome kingdom, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, ozma of oz, ozure isles, prince tatters of ragbad, pumperdink, quok, ragbad, rash, regalia, scarecrow, seebania, the emerald city of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the giant horse of oz, the hungry tiger of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the queen of quok, the road to oz, the scarecrow of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok and the nome king, tin woodman, tippetarius, troth | 4 Comments

Forever Young

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Nathan

It’s pretty common in various media that characters don’t grow any older unless they have some narrative reason to do so. Bart Simpson has been ten years old for twenty-five years now, and he’s actually one of the newer ones. … Continue reading →

Posted in John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aging, childhood, dorothy gale, kimbaloo, number nine, ozma, sister six, the lost king of oz | 3 Comments

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Woman, What Have You Done with the King?

All Together Again

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

I’d Turn Back If I Were You

$ave! $ave! $ave!

Gillikin Geography

Don’t Pester the Jester

Mystery, Ancient and Modern

No Money, Mo’ Problems

Forever Young

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