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Unnaceptable American English

These book are wholly British. In British English, titles are not stylised with full stops at the end of them. Wikipedia is supposed to be follow UK English for UK topics. American editors bastardizing UK English because they are so short-sighted to the point where they think their English is the only English is pure linguistic corruption. This needs to be moved to simply "Mr Tumnus", which is even how it is said in the original British copies. 2A00:23C7:ED18:A301:589D:7B9A:B97:2783 (talk) 12:54, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Allegorical signficance

This is likely to be a controversial topic, so I want to start by discussing. Is Tumnus more representative of the "natural" man or "virtuous" pagan of Romans 2, whose conscience either "accuses" or "excuses" or, perhaps, the moral standing of the Jews (or a faction of them such as the Herodians or the Sadducees) in the time before Christ? Ellsworth 21:06, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

After little reflection I have opted for the Romans 2 interpretation and will note the article accordingly. Ellsworth 22:02, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

characters template

can we put a character templates in narnia character articles? i've seen harry potter and others, and maybe narnia deserve to have it as well. HoneyBee 23:28, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Page location

Following a copy&paste move of this article between Mr. Tumnus and Tumnus, I've merged the article's history back here. Is there any consensus as to whether the correct article title should be Mr. Tumnus or Tumnus? _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 21:51, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed the copy and paste move, restoring the relevant page history. Teke^(talk) 05:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely think the period should be there. "Mr. Tumnus" is how it is in the books.

Daniel says yes to "Mr. Tumnus" with a dot, too...thedrtaylor 02:35, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Family Guy reference

Should there be reference to Peter Griffin's "experience" with Mr. Tumnus from family guy? Seem's silly, but it is a cultural reference. --70.71.186.110 09:53, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe rename this "In popular culture"?? Then I think it would be fine. Capt. Phœbus ^(talk) 18:36, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tumnus, not Mr. Tumnus

Tumnus introduces himself to Lucy by his name, Tumnus; Lucy, being a well-brought-up little English girl, assumes that if an adult introduces himself by one name, that name must be the adult's surname, and accordingly addresses him and refers to him respectfully as Mr. Tumnus. That is Lucy's mistake, however; Tumnus is not his surname, but his only name, and the honorific Mr. Tumnus is in error

And the correct punctuation would be ‘Mr’ not ‘Mr.’

Congrats, someone with respect for the correct British language. Unlike Americans. 2A00:23C7:ED18:A301:589D:7B9A:B97:2783 (talk) 12:55, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Some Americans recognize that dialect differences exist, and may even affect foreign usages. —Tamfang (talk) 19:43, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Name origin

Where does his name come from? Can it be from Vertumnus, the oman god of plant growth (very associated with Nature and forests, just like fauns.)? --Midasminus (talk) 15:11, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

16 years only age boundary

The article makes mention of the fact that Mr. Tumnus was only expected to hand over sons of Adam or Eve younger than 16 years, where - sourcing the original work - '"I had orders from the White Witch that if ever I saw a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve in the wood, I was to catch them and hand them over to her.' without any mention of this age boundary. For now I will take the freedom to remove this mention. I have checked both the lion, the with and the wardrobe and the horse and his boy for any mention of 'sixteen' and 16 with no results. David Mulder - GreatSlovakia (talk) 16:04, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

British English

This character is British; a full stop after "mr" is American English and this isn't found in the original text either. RedSorcery16 (talk) 15:44, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]