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   On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:38:45 +0100, "Nicholas Young"  wrote:   
      
   >"Christian Rendel"  wrote in message   
   >news:bmln96$7q5$03$1@news.t-online.com...   
   >   
   >> In *Companion to Narnia*, Paul Ford quotes from a letter from T. W.   
   >> Craik: "... 'grim' carries its sinister adjectival sense; 'mau' *might*   
   >> be associated with 'maw', but I think it more likely to connect with all   
   >> Spenser's evil names beginning with Mal."   
   >   
   >And more simply with the Latin root "mal", meaning "bad", "wrong", as in   
   >malcontent, malformed, maladjusted, which is of course where Spencer, Lewis   
   >and Rowling all ultimately got it from.   
      
   But the name is Maugrim, not Malgrim.   
      
      
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