{"id":2530,"date":"2005-10-27T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/10\/mr-tumnus-stuck-in-the-middle-with-mr-blonde\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:39:00","slug":"mr-tumnus-stuck-in-the-middle-with-mr-blonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/10\/mr-tumnus-stuck-in-the-middle-with-mr-blonde.html","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Tumnus, stuck in the middle with Mr. Blonde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Heh. From The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/a><\/i>, when Mr. Tumnus tells Lucy Pevensie what will happen to him if he does not turn her over to the White Witch:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if I don\u2019t,\u201d said he, beginning to cry again, \u201cshe\u2019s sure to find out. And she\u2019ll have my tail cut off, and my horns sawn off, and my beard plucked out, and she\u2019ll wave her wand over my beautiful cloven hoofs and turn them into horrid solid hoofs like a wretched horse\u2019s. . . .\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So who\u2019s providing the voice of the wolf (named Maugrim in the film, but Fenris Ulf in my 1970 Collier edition<\/a> of the book) who leads the White Witch\u2019s secret police and arrests Mr. Tumnus? Michael Madsen<\/a>, the guy who did that psycho ear-slicing thing in Reservoir Dogs<\/a><\/i> (1992; my comments<\/a>). Seems fitting, no?<\/p>\n

Thanks to Jeffrey Overstreet<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heh. From The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, when Mr. Tumnus tells Lucy Pevensie what will happen to him if he does not turn her over to the White Witch: \u201cAnd if I don\u2019t,\u201d said he, beginning to cry again, \u201cshe\u2019s sure to find out. And she\u2019ll have my tail cut off, and my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMr. Tumnus, stuck in the middle with Mr. Blonde<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Heh. 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