Telmar

Telmar is a country in the fictional world of Narnia created by the British author C. S. Lewis for his series of books which compose The Chronicles of Narnia. The Telmarines are prominent in the book Prince Caspian, the second book published in the series. The name may have been inspired by the Greek tele-, meaning far, and the Latin mare, sea, since the Telmarines arrived from a distant sea. Another potential explanation suggests that the name Telmar is the product of Spanish del mar, meaning from/of the sea. This would coincide with the Telmarines' origin as pirates from a sea in our world. It is also possible that, as Lewis was a classicist, Telmar blends Tellus, Latin for Earth, and mare; the Telmarines were once comfortable with the sea and shore but fear the woods.