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Puddleglum is a fictional character in the children's fantasy series ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' by C. S. Lewis. Puddleglum appears in ''The Silver Chair'', in which he is a principal character. He also appears briefly at the end of ''The Last Battle''. Puddleglum is an uncommonly cheerful marsh-wiggle; however, as marsh-wiggles are best known for their pessimism, he is still rather exceptionally gloomy, described by other characters as a "wet blanket". Lewis said that his gardener Fred Paxford served as a model for Puddleglum. ==Name== The name Puddleglum may be a typical Marsh-wiggle name (no other Marsh-wiggle is named in the series), but it can also be viewed as a concatenation of "Puddle" for the wetland area where Marsh-wiggles live and "glum" which describes their outlook on life. It likely derives from the poet John Studley, whose comical choices of words Lewis criticized: :() uses more often than his fellows that diction which... cannot now be read without a smile – "frostyface", "topsy turvy", and (for ''Tacitae Stygis''...) "Stygian puddle glum". The association is further strengthened by the fact that "Stygian" refers to the River Styx which was said to flow through the classical Underworld, and the three adventurers in ''The Silver Chair'' descend to the Narnian Underworld. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Puddleglum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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