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   From: john_rhyolite@tiscali.co.uk   
      
   "Steve Hayes"  wrote in message   
   news:3f9dd3c2.127069820@news.saix.net...   
   > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:21:10 GMT, "A Tsar Is Born"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >I missed the beginning of this thread, but the Fenris Wolf is one of   
   Loki's   
   > >children in the Eddas, and the word for dwarves in Tolkien is "Naugrim,"   
   > >which Lewis might well have misunderstood on hearing JRRT read it aloud   
   to   
   > >the Inklings.   
   >   
   > Yes, someone suggested that possibility, but in but Lewis and Tolkien,   
   > dwarfs/dwarves don't seem to be Gestapo/KGB material, and Maugrim is   
   > undoubtedly a Gestapo/KGB figure.   
   >   
   > Kay has given the name Maugrim to his evil god, it appears, but there   
   don't   
   > seem to be any references to a god called Maugrim in any ancient   
   mythology.   
   >   
   > The original question was why the US publishers of the Narnia stories   
   changed   
   > the name of the haad of the secret police from Maugrim to Fenris Ulf, and   
   > later changed it back again. The first change appears to have been that   
   they   
   > wanted a figure from ancient mythology, and the second appears to have   
   been to   
   > keep it more faithful to Lewis's original.   
   >   
   > So the wuestion now is whether there was a figure in ancient mythology   
   called   
   > Maugrim.   
   >   
   'Grim' was another name for Odin.   
      
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