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47-704: Ozma may refer to: Fictional characters [ edit ] Princess Ozma , ruler of the fictional land of Oz Ozma Lee , in Macross Frontier Ozma, a superboss in Final Fantasy IX and Final Fantasy XIV Ozma, the Ra-seru of thunder in Legend of Legaia Ozma, a character in RWBY Music [ edit ] Ozma (band) ,

94-732: A 2012 Japanese anime television series See also [ edit ] Osma , municipality in Soria, Castile-León, Spain Ausma (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ozma . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ozma&oldid=1180532143 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Short description

141-592: A chambermaid named Jellia Jamb as herself (which fails), but manages to elude them as they search for her in the Emerald City. Just as their time runs out, the Tin Woodman plucks a rose to wear in his lapel, unaware that this is the transformed Mombi. Glinda discovers the deception right away and leads the pursuit of Mombi, who is finally caught as she tries to cross the Deadly Desert in the form of

188-533: A collected volume was published by Hungry Tiger Press in 2001. In addition to being part of the basis for Baum's The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays , Land of Oz is the final 1910 Selig Polyscope Oz film , and has been brought to the screen several additional times. The Land of Oz, a Sequel to the Wizard of Oz is a two-reel production by the Meglin Kiddies made in 1931 and released in 1932. The film

235-402: A fast and long-running griffin . Under pressure from Glinda, Mombi confesses that the Wizard brought her the infant Ozma, whom she transformed into... the boy Tip. At first, Tip is utterly shocked and appalled to learn this, but Glinda and his friends help him to accept his duty and Mombi performs her last spell to undo the curse, turning him back into the fairy princess Ozma. The restored Ozma

282-520: A girl but was magically transformed into a boy named Tip while an infant to hide her from Glinda the Good. Tip was raised as a boy until his early teens, at which point, after the adventures detailed in The Marvelous Land of Oz , Tip is informed that he was born a girl. After some trepidation, Tip agreed to be transformed back into a girl and assumes rule of The Land of Oz as Princess Ozma. In

329-686: A large amount of paper money, with which the Scarecrow can be re-stuffed. Using Wishing Pills they discover in the container holding the Powder of Life, Tip and his friends escape and journey to the palace of Glinda the Good Witch in Oz's southern quadrant, the Quadling Country . They learn from Glinda that after the fall of Oz's mortal king Pastoria decades ago, a long lost princess named Ozma

376-447: A major influence on the Oz stories. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been transformed into a stage play in 1902, and several elements of the sequel book were clearly incorporated with an eye to it also being adapted for the stage. The Marvelous Land of Oz was dedicated to David C. Montgomery and Fred Stone , the comedians "whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children throughout

423-468: A one-hour program, The Land of Oz , broadcast on September 18, 1960, with a notable cast including Shirley Temple as Tip and Ozma, Agnes Moorehead as Mombi the witch, Sterling Holloway as Jack Pumpkinhead, Ben Blue as the Scarecrow, Gil Lamb as the Tin Woodman, and Mel Blanc as the voice of the Saw-Horse. Although the adaptation was faithful overall, much of the plot had to be sacrificed to fit

470-608: A rock band from Pasadena, California DJ Ozma , Japanese pop singer Ozma (album) , a 1989 album by the Melvins Other uses [ edit ] Project Ozma , a pioneering experiment in the 1960s in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence The Ozma problem, a philosophical problem posed in The Ambidextrous Universe by Martin Gardner Ozuma ( オズマ , stylized as OZMA ) ,

517-541: A slender jeweled circlet confining them at the brow." As originally illustrated by John R. Neill , she fit this description; however, in most subsequent Oz books , Ozma's hair became darker. Ozma is the daughter of the former King Pastoria of Oz . As an infant, she was given to the witch Mombi of the North by the Wizard of Oz . Mombi transformed Ozma into a boy and called him "Tip" (short for Tippetarius) in order to prevent

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564-561: Is an ageless fairy who has ruled Oz for centuries. Ozma frequently encounters difficulties while ruling her kingdom. In The Lost Princess of Oz , for instance, the Fairy Princess is kidnapped, although her dearest friend Dorothy comes to her rescue with a search party. Both Dorothy and Ozma are captured by the wicked Queen Coo-ee-oh in Glinda of Oz , while trying to stop a war between two races, but Glinda manages to save them with

611-420: Is assembled from two sofas, palm tree leaves, a broom, and tied together with clotheslines and ropes. Then they fly off, with no control over their direction, out of Oz. They land in a nest of jackdaws, which is full of all of the birds' stolen goods. The flying Gump's wings are damaged in the landing. The jackdaws return to their nest and attack the travelers, carrying off the Scarecrow's straw. The nest contains

658-527: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Princess Ozma She is the rightful ruler of Oz, and Baum indicated that she would reign in the fairyland forever, being immortal. Baum described her physical appearance in detail, in The Marvelous Land of Oz : "Her eyes sparkled as two diamonds, and her lips were tinted like a tourmaline . All adown her back floated tresses of ruddy gold, with

705-476: Is essentially an uncredited retelling of The Marvelous Land of Oz , replacing the army of revolt with green elephants and Tip with Dorothy, voiced by Judy Garland 's daughter, Liza Minnelli . Elements from this novel and the following one, Ozma of Oz , were incorporated into the 1985 film Return to Oz featuring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy. The story was dramatized on the TV series The Shirley Temple Show in

752-735: Is established on the throne after defeating Jinjur and her army. The Tin Woodman invites the Scarecrow to return with him to the Winkie Country along with Jack Pumpkinhead. The Gump is disassembled at his request (though his head was a hunting trophy that can still speak), Glinda returns to her palace in Quadling Country, the Wogglebug remains as Ozma's advisor, and the Sawhorse becomes Ozma's personal steed. The forgotten prophecy

799-399: Is finally fulfilled and Oz is politically whole once more, with Ozma in her rightful position as the child Queen of Oz. Women's rights is a primary theme of the book. The kingdom that Princess Ozma and Glinda establish is a fictional manifestation of the " matriarchate " that is described in the written works of activist Matilda Joslyn Gage (Baum's mother-in-law), who has also been cited as

846-412: Is not fooled by this trick, and she takes this opportunity to demonstrate the new magical "Powder of Life" that she had just obtained from another sorcerer. Mombi tells Tip that she intends to transform him into a marble statue to punish him for his mischievous ways. To avoid being turned into a marble statue, Tip runs away with Jack that very same night and steals the Powder of Life. He uses it to animate

893-507: The interactive fiction adaptation of the Oz books by Windham Classics , Tip is made monarch of Oz and no reference at all is made to Ozma. Jack Snow , Melody Grandy, and Scott Andrew Hutchins have all made divergent attempts to bring Tip back alongside Ozma. Snow's device, which Hutchins followed as if canon, was that Tip seized his life from Ozma, but that Glinda and the Wizard were able to restore them both and make them siblings. Grandy made

940-508: The Emerald City with his help. On their way back, they are diverted by the magic of Mombi (whom Jinjur recruited to help her apprehend them). They are joined by the "Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated" Woggle-Bug , and aided by the loyal field mice and their Mouse Queen. The Queen of the Field Mice allows the Scarecrow to take twelve mice concealed in his straw. When the party reaches the Emerald City, Jinjur and her soldiers imprison

987-607: The Princess has possessed the Throne of Oz (although many realms within Oz remained unaware of her authority). In some of his last Oz books, namely The Tin Woodman of Oz and Glinda of Oz , L. Frank Baum indicated that Ozma has the appearance of a fourteen-year-old and is therefore older than Dorothy Gale . By that point in time, Baum had also established that the inhabitants of Oz cease to age, suggesting that Ozma would always appear to be an extremely beautiful young girl. Baum

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1034-730: The Royal Family of Ev from the clutches of the Nome King , demonstrating that her kindness and concern extends far beyond her own kingdom. When the Nome King tried to conquer and destroy Oz in revenge, Ozma insisted on maintaining a pacifist disposition, which led to the Scarecrow 's suggestion that Ozma's enemies be made to forget about their wicked intentions by drinking from the Fountain of Oblivion. Furthermore, Ozma discontinued

1081-594: The Scarecrow and Tin Woodman for the second show, but the two refused, fearing typecasting, and the characters were omitted completely from the play. Instead, Baum adapted the book for the stage as The Woggle-Bug , produced in Chicago the summer of 1905. The musical score was composed by Frederic Chapin , and Fred Mace played the Woggle-Bug. The play was not successful and has not been published, though it has been preserved on microfilm . Its songs were published, and

1128-640: The Scarecrow. Jinjur and her crew invade the Emerald City, terrorize the citizens, and loot the city, causing great havoc and chaos. Tip joins Jack and the Scarecrow in the palace and they escape on the Sawhorse's back. The companions arrive at the tin castle of the Tin Woodman (who now rules the Winkie Kingdom following the Wicked Witch of the West 's demise in the first book) and plan to retake

1175-604: The characters totally unrelated through the use of a "Switcheroo Spell", with Ozma unrelated to Tippetarius and therefore suitable as a possible love interest . Snow's story, "A Murder in Oz" (1956) was rejected by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and published in The Baum Bugle . Grandy's The Disenchanted Princess of Oz has been published by Tails of the Cowardly Lion and Friends. Hutchins's Tip of Oz , heavily mulling over ideas such as Pastoria -as-tailor and

1222-795: The execution of Mombi in The Lost King of Oz and similar material in The Giant Horse of Oz , received a one-paragraph citation in Eldred v. Ashcroft , and remains unpublished under the Copyright Term Extension Act . Ozma was a direct influence on the design of the protagonist Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy . In a 2022 interview with Star Wars Insider , concept artist Iain McCaig related

1269-404: The group and lock them away. However, the female soldiers are scared by the field mice and leave the city's palace. However, they still occupy the grounds of the city and the palace is surrounded. The travelers are imprisoned in the palace. The Scarecrow proposes manufacturing a clever flying machine with a Gump 's stuffed head to direct it. Tip uses the Powder of Life to animate this machine, which

1316-541: The guardianship of a cruel Wicked Witch named Mombi and lives in the northern quadrant of Oz called Gillikin Country . Mombi has always been extremely mean and abusive to Tip. As Mombi is returning home one day, Tip plans to get revenge and frighten her with a simulacrum that he has made with a large Jack-o'-lantern he carves for a head, tree branches for a body, pegs for joints, and old clothes from Mombi's chest. Tip then named him Jack Pumpkinhead . To Tip's dismay, Mombi

1363-482: The help of the Three Adepts at Sorcery. In order to circumvent trouble, Ozma prohibits anyone other than the Wizard of Oz and Glinda from practicing magic in Oz unless they have a permit. L. Frank Baum portrayed Ozma as an exceedingly benevolent and compassionate ruler, who never resorts to violence and who does not believe in destroying even her worst enemies. In Ozma of Oz , she even left Oz in order to rescue

1410-478: The instructions that Lucasfilm provided its artists to visualize characters, saying, "Amidala was described as 'Kind of like Ozma' from The Wizard of Oz ." According to McCaig, he chose actress Natalie Portman as a model for his designs because he felt evoked the Oz character, saying, "She had Ozma's aura of vulnerability and strength." After producer/director George Lucas spoke with McCaig about this inspiration, Lucas cast Portman to play her. The band Ozma

1457-416: The land..." in the popular stage adaptation. Following the Tin Woodman's and the Scarecrow's importance to the play, a similar importance is given to them in the second novel, where neither Dorothy nor the Cowardly Lion appear. The Marvelous Land of Oz was also influenced by the story and vaudevillian tone of the stage play. The character of the Wizard was in the book a good man though a bad wizard but in

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1504-400: The palace, and Ozma declares her an official princess of Oz and her "constant companion". In The Lost Princess of Oz the first page mentions that Ozma loves Dorothy very much and by page two says that Dorothy is the only one privileged to enter Ozma's rooms without an invitation. In turn, Dorothy often represents Ozma when some task takes the latter away from the Emerald City. Ozma was born

1551-536: The play, the villain of the piece; this is reflected by the evil part he is described as having played in the backstory of The Marvelous Land of Oz . The two armies of women, both Jinjur's and Glinda's, were so clearly intended as future chorus girls that even reviews of the book noted the similarity. One early reviewer of The Marvelous Land of Oz noted that some details in the book clearly appeared to be designed for stage production—in particular, " General Jinjur and her soldiers are only shapely chorus girls." Since

1598-495: The rightful ruler of Oz from ascending to the throne. Ozma spent her entire childhood with Mombi in the form of the boy Tip and had no memory of ever having been a girl. During this time, Tip had managed to create Jack Pumpkinhead who was brought to life by Mombi's Powder of Life. In The Marvelous Land of Oz , Glinda the Good Sorceress discovered what had happened and forced Mombi to turn Tip back into Ozma. Since then,

1645-513: The stage adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been a huge hit, with two companies still touring the country as the second book was published, the reviewer's suspicion was both natural and accurate. It has also been suggested that the twist of Tip being the Princess Ozma also reflects stage traditions, as Tip would have likely been played by a woman in drag. Baum had wanted Fred Stone and David Montgomery to reprise their roles as

1692-483: The story into a one-hour time slot, and Dr. Nikidik was added to the storyline and refashioned into a lord (played by Jonathan Winters ). The 1983 stop-motion cartoon W krainie czarnoksiężnika Oza ( In the Land of the Wizard of Oz ) combined the adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz in 13 episodes. The novel was adapted in the 1986 TV series Ozu no Mahōtsukai . The Land of Oz

1739-460: The timeline of The Road to Oz , Ozma's birthday falls on August 21. When Ozma first meets Dorothy, Oz's greatest heroine, in Ozma of Oz , they immediately like each other and become best friends; in the canonical Oz books by Baum, Dorothy and Ozma are each other's closest relationship . In The Emerald City of Oz Ozma arranges, at Dorothy's request, for Dorothy and her family to move into

1786-403: The use of money in Oz, and took systematic measures to ensure that all the citizens of Oz receive the land's resources in equal measure, without having to work harder than necessary. Ozma invited several people from the outside world to come live in the Land of Oz, most notably Dorothy, The Wizard, Aunt Em , Uncle Henry , Betsy Bobbin , Trot , Button Bright and Cap'n Bill . According to

1833-420: The wooden Sawhorse for Jack to ride. The Sawhorse runs so quickly that Tip is left behind. Walking alone, he meets General Jinjur 's all-girl Army of Revolt which is planning to overthrow the Scarecrow (who has ruled the Emerald City since the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz after the Wizard of Oz left). Meanwhile, Jack and the Sawhorse arrive at the Emerald City and make the acquaintance of His Majesty

1880-542: Was also adapted as two episodes of the 2000 Russian animated series Adventures of the Emerald City : The intrigues of old Mombi and Princess Ozma . Elements of the 2007 Sci Fi miniseries Tin Man also borrow from this book as much as it did The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The protagonist, like Tip/Ozma, is a lost princess sent away from The O.Z. and magically altered to forget much of her previous existence. Ray Bolger recorded an audio adaptation of The Land of Oz . This

1927-548: Was followed by Ozma of Oz (1907). The story features the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodsman , and introduces Princess Ozma and Jack Pumpkinhead to the Oz mythos. The events are set shortly after the events in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and after Dorothy Gale's departure back to Kansas . The protagonist of the novel is an orphan boy called Tip . For as long as he can remember, Tip has been under

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1974-485: Was hidden away in secrecy when the Wizard of Oz took the throne. She also informs them that Ozma is the rightful ruler of the Emerald City and all of Oz in general, not the Scarecrow (who did not really want the job anyway). Glinda therefore accompanies Tip, Jack, the Sawhorse, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Wogglebug, and the Gump back to the Emerald City to see Mombi. The crooked woman tries to deceive them by disguising

2021-640: Was in fact a member of the Fairy Queen Lurline 's band when Lurline enchanted Oz and turned it into a fairyland. Jack Snow attempted to reconcile Baum's disparate accounts in The Shaggy Man of Oz , which explains that the Fairy Queen Lurline had left the infant Ozma in the care of King Pastoria, making the Princess the adopted daughter of the last King of Oz. This does not gel with the version of Ozma's story which says she

2068-552: Was named after her. The Marvelous Land of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman , commonly shortened to The Land of Oz , published in July 1904, is the second book in L. Frank Baum 's Oz series , and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). This and the following 34 books in the series were illustrated by John R. Neill . It

2115-683: Was not inclined to worry about strict continuity in his series, however, and so there were discrepancies in the origins and very nature of Ozma. In her initial appearances, she was portrayed as no more than a human princess, born shortly before the Wizard 's arrival in Oz. Later in the series, Baum revealed that Ozma is actually a fairy , descending from "a long line of fairy queens" as stated in The Scarecrow of Oz . In The Magic of Oz , Glinda tells Dorothy that no one knows how old Ozma really is. And in Baum's final book, Ozma herself explains that she

2162-594: Was recovered, but the soundtrack of the second reel is missing. The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969) is a studio-bound production from independent filmmaker Barry Mahon and stars his son, Channy, as Tip. Mahon had previously produced nudie films; however, those films were made in New York, while Oz was made in Florida, and neither Caroline Berner (as General Jinjur ) nor the rest of her army were drawn from his former casts. Filmation 's Journey Back to Oz (1972)

2209-626: Was the third in a series of four audiotapes, The Oz Audio Collection , recorded by Bolger and issued by Caedmon Audio from 1976-1983. The story was also adapted in comic book form by Marvel Comics ; once in 1975 in the Marvel Treasury of Oz series, and again in an eight issue series with the first issue being released in November 2009. In 1985, the Windham Classics text adventure game The Wizard of Oz adapted much of

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