Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
Character

Trumpkin

Also known as Trumpkin the Dwarf, D.L.F.

A skeptical Red Dwarf and loyal supporter of Caspian. He brings the Pevensies from Cair Paravel to the Old Narnian refuge and comes to trust Aslan through experience.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

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Primary sources

In the chronicles

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Prince Caspian22 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter V · paragraph 50…her Dwarf was a Red Dwarf with hair rather like a Fox's and he was called Trumpkin.Open passage →
  2. Chapter V · paragraph 52"Bulbs and bolsters! Nikabrik," said Trumpkin. "Why need you talk so unhandsomely? It isn't the creature's fault that it bashed its head against a tree outsi…Open passage →
  3. Chapter VI · paragraph 2"We will go first to the Three Bulgy Bears," said Trumpkin.Open passage →
  4. Chapter VI · paragraph 4… three nights ahead. "And you'd better tell the three Bulgies too," added Trumpkin. "We forgot to mention it to them."Open passage →
  5. Chapter VII · paragraph 16"Be quiet, Nikabrik," said Trumpkin. "The creature can't help its ancestry."Open passage →
  6. Chapter VII · paragraph 27"Battle if need be," said Trumpkin. "But we are hardly ready for it yet, and this is no very defensible place."Open passage →
  7. Chapter VIII · paragraph 1"and so," said Trumpkin (for, as you have realised, it was he who had been telling all this story to the four children, sitting on the …Open passage →
  8. Chapter VIII · paragraph 3"Between nine and ten of the clock," said Trumpkin.Open passage →
  9. Chapter IX · paragraph 1…'s head ached from the long hours of sun and the glare on the water. Even Trumpkin longed for the voyage to be over. The seat on which he sat to steer had been made for men, not Dwarfs, and his …Open passage →
  10. Chapter IX · paragraph 12"Apples, heigh-ho," said Trumpkin with a rueful grin. "I must say you ancient kings and queens don't overfeed your courtiers!"Open passage →
  11. Chapter X · paragraph 3…n, jewel-like dragon flies, sometimes a hawk overhead and once (Peter and Trumpkin both thought) an eagle. But of course what the children and the Dwarf wanted to see as soon as possible was the…Open passage →
  12. Chapter X · paragraph 6…n to wonder if raw meat was really as nasty as they had always been told. Trumpkin assured them it was.Open passage →
  13. Chapter XI · paragraph 7…be invisible to us? He never used to be. It's not like him. What does the D.L.F. say?"Open passage →
  14. Chapter XI · paragraph 14"Obey the High King, your Majesty," said Trumpkin, "and let's be off. If I'm not to be allowed to sleep, I'd as soon march as stand here talking."Open passage →
  15. Chapter XII · paragraph 1Meanwhile Trumpkin and the two boys arrived at the dark little stone archway which led into the inside of the Mound, and two senti…Open passage →
  16. Chapter XII · paragraph 2"Trumpkin," said the Dwarf. "Bringing the High King of Narnia out of the far past."Open passage →
  17. Chapter XIII · paragraph 18"Upon my word," said Trumpkin, "if you want someone who can kill with looks, Reepicheep would be the best."Open passage →
  18. Chapter XIII · paragraph 65"Don't let him," whispered Trumpkin to Peter. "He's a good creature, but he'll shame us all. He'll go to sleep and he will suck his paws. In front …Open passage →
  19. Chapter XIV · paragraph 1A little before two o'clock Trumpkin and the Badger sat with the rest of the creatures at the wood's edge looking across at the gleaming line of Mir…Open passage →
  20. Chapter XIV · paragraph 2"I wish Aslan had turned up before it came to this," said Trumpkin.Open passage →
  21. Chapter XV · paragraph 20…ian, as soon as he was knighted, himself bestowed it on Trufflehunter and Trumpkin and Reepicheep, and made Doctor Cornelius his Lord Chancellor, and confirmed the Bulgy Bear in his hereditary o…Open passage →
  22. Chapter XV · paragraph 27…is right and Caspian on his left. Grouped round them were Susan and Lucy, Trumpkin and Trufflehunter, the Lord Cornelius, Glenstorm, Reepicheep and others. The children and the Dwarfs had made g…Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader6 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter II · paragraph 9…ute now. And I had an excellent person to leave as Regent while I'm away--Trumpkin, the Dwarf. You remember him?"Open passage →
  2. Chapter II · paragraph 10"Dear Trumpkin," said Lucy, "of course I do. You couldn't have made a better choice."Open passage →
  3. Chapter III · paragraph 78…rn of Narnia, Queen Susan's Horn: he had left that at home for his regent Trumpkin to use if any great need fell upon the land in the King's absence.) Drinian, who was on the look-out for a sign…Open passage →
  4. Chapter XI · paragraph 7…fore your people are ripe for that. And to-day before sunset I must visit Trumpkin the Dwarf where he sits in the castle of Cair Paravel counting the days till his master Caspian comes home. I will tell h…Open passage →
  5. Chapter XVI · paragraph 23…ot to land on the Island of Deathwater. And instruct my regent, the Dwarf Trumpkin, to give to all these, my shipmates, the rewards I promised them. They have been earned well. And if I come not…Open passage →
  6. Chapter XVI · paragraph 38…ng of Narnia. You break faith with all your subjects, and especially with Trumpkin, if you do not return. You shall not please yourself with adventures as if you were a private person. And if yo…Open passage →
The Silver Chair7 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter III · paragraph 30…Regent at once," it said. "That's him, over there in the donkey carriage; Trumpkin the Dwarf." The bird turned and began leading the way, muttering to itself, "Whoo! Tu-whoo! What a to-do! I can't think c…Open passage →
  2. Chapter IV · paragraph 30"It's only this," said Glimfeather. "That if the Lord Regent, the Dwarf Trumpkin, hears you are going to look for the lost Prince, he won't let you start. He'd keep you under lock and key soon…Open passage →
  3. Chapter IV · paragraph 31"Great Scott!" said Scrubb. "You don't mean that Trumpkin is a traitor? I used to hear a lot about him in the old days, at sea. Caspian--the King, I mean--trusted him ab…Open passage →
  4. Chapter V · paragraph 38…ff for foreign parts; and he had a nasty cough when he left. Then there's Trumpkin. He's failing fast. And you'll find there'll have been a bad harvest after this terrible dry summer. And I shou…Open passage →
  5. Chapter XV · paragraph 34…en doing, Puddleglum?--there've been search-parties out for you--the Lord Trumpkin has been putting up notices--there's a reward offered!" But all this died away, all in one moment, into dead si…Open passage →
  6. Chapter XVI · paragraph 29…se to the water's edge, bare-headed, to receive his father; and the Dwarf Trumpkin sat beside him in his little donkey-chair. The children saw there would be no chance of reaching the Prince thr…Open passage →
  7. Chapter XVI · paragraph 31…hitch. A Lord with a pale face came ashore and knelt to the Prince and to Trumpkin. The three were talking with their heads close together for a few minutes, but no-one could hear what they said…Open passage →
The Last Battle1 cited passage⌄
  1. Chapter XVI · paragraph 30…imself. And close beside him were the Lord Drinian and the Lord Berne and Trumpkin the Dwarf and Trufflehunter, the Good Badger, with Glenstorm the Centaur and a hundred other heroes of the great War of D…Open passage →
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CharacterCaspian X

The Telmarine heir who restores the Old Narnians and becomes Caspian the Navigator.

→CharacterTrufflehunter

A Talking Badger who protects the young Caspian.

→PlaceAslan’s How

The mound raised over the broken Stone Table.

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