Iorek byrnison

Iorek Byrnison was a panserbjørn and the king of Svalbard. He was a great friend and comrade to both Lyra Silvertongue and Lee Scoresby. Iorek was the heir to the throne of Svalbard. He fought against Hjalmur Hjalmurson in a ritual of dominance to win over a female bear. However, the other bear had been drugged and would not back down when he was defeated. This led to Byrnison killing the bear, which was strictly forbidden, and he was condemned to exile.[1] On 15 April 1962, Byrnison met Lee…

Iorek Byrnison is the deuteragonist of the book trilogy His Dark Materials. He is a panserbjørn (species of giant polar bear) and the rightful king of Svalbard as well as a great comrade to both Lyra Silvertongue and Lee Scoresby. In the 2007 film adaptation, he was voiced by Ian McKellen, who also played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, Zebedee in The Magic Roundabout, Cogsworth in the 2017 adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and Older Magneto in the X-Men movies…

The epic bear vs. bear showdown in His Dark Materials wasn't what book fans expected, but one actor explained what the change meant.