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 Chronicles of Narnia Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Horse and His Boy", were already complete, they were not released immediately at that time, but instead appeared (along with "The Silver Chair") one at a time in each of the subsequent years (1951–1954). The last two books ("The Magician's Nephew" and "The Last Battle") were published in the United Kingdom originally by The Bodley Head in 1955 and 1956. In the United States, the publication rights were first owned by Macmillan Publishers, and later by HarperCollins. The two issued both hardcover and paperback editions of the series during their tenure