Maugrim

This article is about the character in C. S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". For the character in BioWare's roleplaying game Neverwinter Nights, see List of Neverwinter Nights characters § Maugrim Korothir. For the character Rakoth Maugrim in Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry, see The Fionavar Tapestry. For the monstrous wolf in Norse mythology, see Fenrir.
Maugrim
Narnia character
Maugrim as depicted by Leo and Diane Dillon
In-universe information
RaceTalking Grey wolf
GenderMale
TitleCaptain of the Secret Police
NationalityNarnian
Maugrim sculpture (by Maurice Harron (2016), CS Lewis Square, Belfast)

Maugrim is a fictional character in the 1950 novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. A Narnian wolf, he is the Captain of the White Witch's Secret Police. In early American editions of the book, Lewis changed the name to Fenris Ulf (a reference to Fenrisúlfr, a wolf from Norse mythology),[1][2][3] but when HarperCollins took over the books they took out Lewis' revisions,[4] and the name Maugrim has been used in all editions since 1994.[3][5]

Maugrim is one of the few Talking Animals who sided with the Witch during the Hundred-Year Winter. Nikabrik in Prince Caspian indicates that Narnian wolves have no loyalty to the lion Aslan.[6]

  1. ^ Duriez, Colin (2013). The A-Z of C.S Lewis: An encyclopaedia of his life, thought, and writings. Lion Books. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-7459-5586-5 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Duriez, Colin (2004). A Field Guide to Narnia. InterVarsity Press. p. 195. ISBN 0-8308-3207-6 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Lodbell, Jared (2016). Eight Children in Narnia. Open Court Publishing Company. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8126-9901-2 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Peter J. Schakel, The Way Into Narnia, Williams B. Eerdmans, 2005, p. 14.
  5. ^ IMDB
  6. ^ Lewis, C.S. (1998). The Complete Chronicles of Narnia. Collins. p. 268. ISBN 0-00-185713-4.