![]() Children's daemons can change forms at will, but when they reach adulthood, the daemon's flesh becomes fixed and reflects the personality of its human: A servant might have a dog, a sailor might have a dolphin, and an Arctic adventurer might have a snow leopard. ![]() Humans in The Golden Compass have an externalized soul in the form of a talking animal. ![]() Then there is the notion of "daemons," one of Pullman's great literary inventions. ![]() In the wake of the success of the Lord of the Rings and Narnia franchises, it might seem like a no-brainer to use His Dark Materials as the basis for another series of epic fantasy movies - but this franchise comes with so many extra degrees of difficulty, it seems unbelievable that it ever even got a green light.įirst is the sheer scope of the book: The action shifts from Oxford to London to the frozen northern wastelands of "Norroway" to a hole ripped in the sky underneath the Aurora Borealis, a portal to other worlds. ![]()
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