Nikabrik
Also known as Nikabrik the Dwarf
A Black Dwarf allied with Caspian but increasingly willing to use dark powers against the Telmarines. His despair culminates in an attempt to summon the White Witch.
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In the chronicles
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Prince Caspian10 cited passages⌄
- Chapter V · paragraph 48
…imed the third voice. "Of course we're not going to murder it. For shame, Nikabrik. What do you say, Trufflehunter? What shall we do with it?"
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 50
…r and beard were black, and thick and hard like horse-hair). His name was Nikabrik. The other Dwarf was a Red Dwarf with hair rather like a Fox's and he was called Trumpkin.
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 5
…re noble--mail shirts and helmets and swords for Caspian and Trumpkin and Nikabrik. The Badger could have had the same if he had liked, but he said he was a beast, he was, and if his claws and t…
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 8
…ot, indeed," said Trufflehunter. "We want none of that sort on our side." Nikabrik disagreed with this, but Trumpkin and the Badger overruled him. It gave Caspian a shock to realise that the hor…
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 15
"Pah!" said Nikabrik. "A renegade Dwarf. A half-and-halfer! Shall I pass my sword through its throat?"
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 16
"Be quiet, Nikabrik," said Trumpkin. "The creature can't help its ancestry."
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 24
…n tiptoes to do so) and he muttered to himself, "It would never do to let Nikabrik see this; never." They found easily enough a mail shirt for him, a sword, a helmet, a shield, a bow and quiverf…
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 12
…arfs bore the brunt of the attack and one in five of them fell." ("That's Nikabrik," whispered Trumpkin.)
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 14
"Tell that tale your own way for all I care," answered Nikabrik. "But whether it was that the Horn was blown too late, or whether there was no magic in it, no help has come. Y…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 1
…pen mouths and could not speak. Some of the Black Dwarfs, who had been of Nikabrik's party, began to edge away. But all the Talking Beasts surged round the Lion, with purrs and grunts and squeak…
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