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A dæmon (/ ˈ d iː m ən /) is a type of fictional being in the Philip Pullman fantasy trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.Dæmons are the external physical manifestation of a person's "inner-self" that takes the form of an animal.
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.
This is a list of characters from the two Philip Pullman trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. Introduced in Northern Lights Lyra Belacqua Main article: Lyra Belacqua Lyra Belacqua, later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the central character of His Dark Materials and a key character in The Book of Dust. Together with her dæmon Pantalaimon, she is introduced in La Belle Sauvage ...
Fans of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, Lin-Manuel Miranda included, have known all along that Lee Scoresby was sailing his balloon towards certain death. In Monday night’s ...
Emma Fielding played Mrs. Coulter in the BBC Radio 4 version of His Dark Materials. Alison Dowling played her in the Chivers Children's Audio Books version, which author Philip Pullman narrated. Patricia Hodge played Marisa Coulter in the first run of the National Theatre stage adaptation in London, and Lesley Manville played her in the second ...
So it was with “His Dark Materials,” the lavish new series that has just bowed […] Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
Season 1 of His Dark Materials was not perfect. The HBO drama — which follows a girl named Lyra (Dafne Keen) who must free herself from the magic-hating Magisterium — dragged at times due to ...
Anne-Marie Bird links Pullman's concept of "Dust" to "a conventional metaphor for human physicality inspired by God's judgment on humanity." [1] Writing in Children's Literature in Education, she suggests that the first trilogy develops John Milton's metaphor of "dark materials" from Paradise Lost "into a ‘substance’ in which good and evil, and spirit and matter – conceptual opposites ...