Maugrim

"Be still, stranger, or you'll never move again!"

- Maugrim, threatening Edmund.

Maugrim (known by some records as Fenris Ulf) was a ferocious talking wolf in Narnia, and the head captain of the White Witch's Secret Police at the very end of the Long Winter. He was one of those most loyal to the White Witch.

Biography
Maugrim led the raid on Tumnus' Cave, where the Faun Tumnus lived and was captured, and left his home left in tatters. Maugrim also left a message there, to warn and intimidate others passing by, making an example of Tumnus.



Maugrim encountered the human boy Edmund Pevensie while guarding the White Witch's Castle courtyard, after Edmund mistook him to be a stone wolf. Maugrim first attacked the boy, demanding who he was, only to release him and take him to the Witch after Edmund explained that Jadis had sent for him.

After Edmund told the Witch where his siblings were, she sent Maugrim and his wolves after them, at the Beaver's Dam. They tracked them there, but lost them, as they had already left.

Eventually, Maugrim was able to track them all to Aslan's Camp, and attempted to attack Susan and Lucy Pevensie. With the sound of Susan's Horn, her eldest sibling, Peter, ran to her and Lucy's rescue by withdrawing his sword and meeting Maugrim in battle, while this sisters fled into a tree. Although Peter at first missed Maugrim with his blade, while the wolf howled formidably, he successfully impaled him through the heart. The wolf captain died a few moments later, never ceasing in his struggle.

Film Adaptations
He appeared in the BBC version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where he was portrayed by Canadian Actor, Martin Stone.

He also appeared in the 2005 Disney adaptation with an expanded role: -

After being sent after the children at the Beaver's Dam, he and his Secret Police (portrayed to have a lot more members) found and attempted to intimidate a Fox into revealing the children's location. The fox misled them, though, sending them on a wild goose chase, away from the Pevensies who were safely hiding in a tree above them.

Before the children and the Beavers had reached Aslan's Camp, Maugrim tracked them to a frozen river and waterfall, where he attempted to convince Peter to just take his siblings and go home, without having to fight in the war. He also told him to put his sword away, as someone could get hurt with it, indicating he didn't think too much of Peter's skills at the time. Maugrim was thwarted, though, when the ice broke, and the children escaped with the flow of the river, and he was apparently taken in by the river, too. He survived, though.

After he escaped the river, he, and another wolf named Vardan, tracked them to Aslan's Camp, and threatened Susan and Lucy, despite being very tired at the time, which he told them. When he and Peter fought, his death, although still by Peter's hand, was noteably different in the film. After taunting Peter about him being a coward (referring back to the river, where Peter was unwilling to deliver a killing blow without risking his friends and family), he jumps right onto Peter's sword-tip while it was extended at him. This indicates that he either became extremely arrogant, to the point that even the sword was of little concern to him, or he was attempting suicide.

Trivia

 * When given the opportunity to make changes to the texts for publishing the book in US territories, Lewis (amongst other revisions in the book) changed his name to Fenris Ulf (and therefore also Peter's title to "Fenris Bane"), after which these changes were reflected in American editions of the books. Even though Lewis may have had a good reason to change the name, the current Narnia publisher, HarperCollins, in 1994, decided to use Lewis' earlier, unrevised texts to publish today (and also re-order the books so they reflect internal chronology; a change which is also disputed), which refer to him as "Maugrim". This decision has led to the character now being most widely known as "Maugrim", even though many consider his canonical name to be Fenris Ulf.
 * Maugrim's name is supposedly derived from the words "maw" (mouth) and "grim" or possibly "morgue grim".
 * Maugrim appears in the 2005 motion picture The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in which he is voiced by American actor Michael Madsen.

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