Trumpkin returns from Underland where the Lady of the Green Kirtle has been holding him captive. Trumpkin is known for using alliterative exclamations such as "Tubs and tortoise-shells!", "Beards and bedsteads!", and "Crows and crockery!" Trumpkin Trumpkin is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis' fantasy novel series "The Chronicles of Narnia". Trumpkin is an intensely practical and skeptical dwarf who lives during the reigns of King Miraz and King Caspian X. He is a major character in "Prince Caspian", briefly mentioned in "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", and is a minor character in "The Silver Chair". Trumpkin the dwarf
The Magician's Nephew six-year period between 1949 and 1954. He started in the summer of 1949 after finishing "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", but came to a halt after producing 26 pages of manuscript and did not resume work until two years later. This may be as a result of the autobiographical aspects of the novel, as it reflects a number of incidents and parallels very close to his own experiences. He returned to "The Magician's Nephew" late in 1950, after completing "The Silver Chair". He managed to finish close to three-quarters of the novel, and then halted work once again