Editing Puddleglum (section)

==Name==
The name Puddleglum can be viewed as a concatenation of "Puddle" for Puddleglum's association with water and wetlands, and "glum" which describes his outlook on life.<ref name="Ford">{{cite book |title=Companion to Narnia: Revised Edition |url=https://archive.org/details/pocketcompaniont00ford |url-access=registration |last=Ford |first=Paul |year=2005 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pocketcompaniont00ford/page/357 357] |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |location=[[San Francisco]] |isbn=978-0-06-079127-8 }}</ref> It likely derives from the translator [[John Studley]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Downing|first=David C.|year=2005|title=Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles|page=132|publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=978-0-7879-7890-7}}</ref> whose comical choices of words Lewis criticized:
:[Studley] uses more often than his fellows that diction which... cannot now be read without a smile – "frostyface", "topsy turvy", and (for ''Tacitae Stygis''...) "Stygian puddle glum".<ref>{{cite book |last=Lewis |first=C.S. |year=1954 |title=English Literature in the Sixteenth Century|url=https://archive.org/details/englishliteratur00lewi |url-access=registration | page=[https://archive.org/details/englishliteratur00lewi/page/256 256] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> The association is further strengthened by the fact that "Stygian" refers to the [[River Styx]] which was said to flow through the classical Underworld, and the three adventurers in ''The Silver Chair'' descend to the Narnian Underworld.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}