Mr Tumnus
Also known as Tumnus, Mr. Tumnus
The Faun who meets Lucy at the Lamp-post. Though charged with betraying human visitors to the White Witch, he chooses friendship and becomes a trusted figure at Cair Paravel.
This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.
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In the chronicles
These links are generated from exact-name appearances in the supplied novels. Each opens the cited paragraph in the local reader.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe15 cited passages⌄
- Chapter II · paragraph 8
…ighted, delighted," he went on. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus."
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"I am very pleased to meet you, Mr. Tumnus," said Lucy.
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 42
…r how flushed and strange his face was. "I've been having lunch with dear Mr. Tumnus, the Faun, and he's very well and the White Witch has done nothing to him for letting me go, so he thinks she c…
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 47
"Mr. Tumnus, the Faun," said Lucy.
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 29
"What about going to see Mr. Tumnus?" said Lucy. "He's the nice Faun I told you about."
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 30
… became uneven and into the little valley and at last to the very door of Mr. Tumnus' cave. But there a terrible surprise awaited them.
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 32
…y Lucy said, "Oh, of course. It's my handkerchief--the one I gave to poor Mr. Tumnus."
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 36
"And what about Mr. Tumnus," said Lucy; "where is he?"
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 1
"And now," said Lucy, "do please tell us what's happened to Mr. Tumnus."
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 15
…He'll settle the White Queen all right. It is he, not you, that will save Mr. Tumnus."
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 25
It wasn't nearly such a nice cave as Mr. Tumnus's, Lucy thought--just a hole in the ground but dry and earthy. It was very small so that when they all lay down…
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 14
"Aslan! Aslan! I've found Mr. Tumnus. Oh, do come quick."
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 16
…ted statues surged back into the courtyard. And it was then that someone (Tumnus, I think) first said,
Open passage → - Chapter XVII · paragraph 19
…to their hands and they gave rewards and honours to all their friends, to Tumnus the Faun, and to the Beavers, and Giant Rumblebuffin, to the leopards, and the good centaurs and the good dwarf…
Open passage → - Chapter XVII · paragraph 22
…world it was only as one remembers a dream. And one year it fell out that Tumnus (who was a middle-aged Faun by now and beginning to be stout) came down river and brought them news that the Wh…
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The Horse and His Boy3 cited passages⌄
- Chapter IV · paragraph 40
…, and the Wardrobe you may like to know that this was the very same Faun, Tumnus by name, whom Queen Susan's sister Lucy had met on the very first day when she found her way into Narnia. But h…
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 7
"Yes," said Tumnus. "And when I supped with the Grand Vizier last night, it was the same. He asked me how I liked Tashbaan. And I …
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 24
…courage," said Edmund. "Remember--but what is the matter with you, Master Tumnus?" For the Faun was holding both his horns with his hands as if he were trying to keep his head on by them and w…
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Prince Caspian1 cited passage⌄
The Last Battle2 cited passages⌄
- Chapter XVI · paragraph 30
…irian--there came from further away in the past, the two good Beavers and Tumnus the Faun. And there was greeting and kissing and handshaking and old jokes revived, (you've no idea how good an…
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 31
…ere--Lucy stood with her dear friend, her oldest Narnian friend, the Faun Tumnus, looking down over the wall of that garden, and seeing all Narnia spread out below. But when you looked down yo…
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