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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.
Lyra Belacqua (/ ˈ l aɪ r ə b ə ˈ l ɑː k w ə / LY-rə bə-LAH-kwə), later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the heroine of Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. In His Dark Materials Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a universe parallel to our own. Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself ...
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 ...
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 ...
His Dark Materials paid a touching tribute to the late Helen McCrory, who passed away in 2021; the actress voiced Stelmaria on the BBC show.
Pullman conceived The Book of Dust before the publication of Lyra's Oxford in 2003 [4] [5] and in 2005 he confirmed the book was "under way". [6] Early on he described it as being a longer book than he had initially imagined [7] [8] and later that he was considering writing two volumes, one set before His Dark Materials and the other set afterwards. [9]