Spare oom
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Spare oom was thought by Mr. Tumnus in C.S. Lewis' novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to be the home country of Lucy Pevensie, containing the city of War Drobe. In reality it is the spare room of professor Digory Kirke, containing the wardrobe that is a portal to Narnia for the Pevensie children.
Paul F. Ford calls it a clever way for Lewis to show how words are really symbols. In another instance, the animals in The Magician's Nephew mishear Aslan's statement that an evil has entered Narnia, thinking that he said "A Neevil".
[edit] Primary source
Ford, Paul F. Companion to Narnia, Harper and Row, San Francisco, 1980.
[edit] Secondary source
Lewis, C.S. Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare, Selected Literary Essays, Cambridge University Press, London, 1969.
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