Glome is the fictional land ruled by Queen Orual in C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces. Orual becomes its queen after the death of her father, the king.
Glome is an invented kingdom shaped by the atmosphere of the ancient Mediterranean world. Its religious practices, political tensions, and neighboring kingdom of Essur contribute to the novel’s retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth.
The name is easy to confuse with Narnia because both are imaginary settings created by Lewis. Glome belongs specifically to Till We Have Faces, which is a mythic adult novel rather than part of the Narnia sequence. The novel’s first-person narrative gives readers Orual’s account of life in Glome and her troubled relationship with the gods.