"Eggs, chickens"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus"@en . . . . . . . "Gnome King"@en . "Bad"@en . . . . . . . . . "King of the Nomes"@en . . . . "The Nome King is the primary villain in \"Return of Oz\". He is the King of the Nomes, a evil race of creatures with rock-like features. He found Dorothy's Ruby Slippers after they fall on his mountain. Using them, he conquered the Emerald City, turning its inhabitants into stone, with the exception of the Scarecrow, who he captured and took to his mountain. When Dorothy, Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Gump arrived at his mountain, the Nome King transformed the Scarecrow into an ornament. He told Dorothy that the emeralds were originally his and that the Scarecrow stole them from him, but she knew he was lying because the emeralds were there before the Scarecrow became king. The Nome King decided to have them all play a guessing game with each of his ornaments to see which one the Scarec"@en . . . . "The Nome King is the primary villain in \"Return of Oz\". He is the King of the Nomes, a evil race of creatures with rock-like features. He found Dorothy's Ruby Slippers after they fall on his mountain. Using them, he conquered the Emerald City, turning its inhabitants into stone, with the exception of the Scarecrow, who he captured and took to his mountain. When Dorothy, Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Gump arrived at his mountain, the Nome King transformed the Scarecrow into an ornament. He told Dorothy that the emeralds were originally his and that the Scarecrow stole them from him, but she knew he was lying because the emeralds were there before the Scarecrow became king. The Nome King decided to have them all play a guessing game with each of his ornaments to see which one the Scarecrow was, in which if they guessed right, the Scarecrow would be restored, but if they guessed wrong three times, they would be turned into ornaments. Whenever one was turned into an ornament, the Nome King became more human in appearance. If all of them were to guess wrong and become ornaments, the Nome King would be completely human. All of them were turned into ornaments except Dorothy, who was able to get the Scarecrow back and realized that people from Oz turned into green ornaments. Furious at this, the Nome King blamed Princess Mombi, who previously had Dorothy locked in her tower and was unable to prevent her escape, so he imprisoned her in a cage to punish her later and then turned into a giant form and attempted to eat them shortly after they found the Gump and Jack. He tried to eat the Gump, but only succeeded in eating the sofa part of him, as they were able to save his head. He then tried to eat Jack, but as he was holding him above his mouth, Billina, who was inside Jack's head since their arrival on the mountain, laid an egg, which fell down the Nome King's throat. As eggs are poisonous to Nomes, this killed him, leaving only a pile of rocks and the Ruby Slippers, which Dorothy then used to reverse the Nome King's evil doings. His mountain was destroyed afterwards. Nicol Williamson also played Dr. Worley. Interestingly enough, both have a ruby ring on their finger and are smoking a cigar. The Nome King's mountain collapsing, and he himself crumbling into a pile of rocks after being poisoned by an egg, mirrors Dr. Worley's clinic burning down and his subsequent death, much like Nurse Wilson and Mombi, who are both imprisoned at the film's end."@en . "Roquat the Red"@en . . . . . "Take over Oz."@en . . . "Bowen-Merrill"@en . . . "There was also a different kind of Nome King, spelled \"Gnome\", that appeared in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus By L. Frank Baum. This may be Roquat earlier in his life or possibly a different Nome entirely from another fantasy realm, as he is never identified by name. The Nome King lives in his very own rock mountain which also happens to neighbor the Land of Oz. His mountain and Oz are separated by the Deadly Desert, which is what keeps his turf and Oz divided into two. In the Mountain, deep underground, there the Nome King dwells with all of his loyal Nome subjects and servants. His Kingdom is a large and vast carven with hundreds of rooms and walkways, all with high domed ceilings which are always beautifully lite up by all of the glowing tourmaline rocks, diamonds, gems, stones and other countless treasures such as gold nuggets and silver. \"The Nome King took the King Scarecrow and all of the emeralds back to his mountain, and turned everyone else to stone...\" \u2015Mombi in Return to Oz (1985) The Nomes hide and greedily Pack-Rat sparkling jewels, pearls, stones and other rare and precious metals of the earth, and resent the \"Upstairs-People\", who are constantly digging deep down and making big tunnels in the Nome Kingdom to retrieve all those valuables to sell without the Nome Kings permission to do so. Which causes the Nome King to look at it as stealing. The Nome King also has a soft side despite his ways, as he loves to collect valuable antiques and attractive nic-nacs. In his underground Kingdom, the Nome King has an entire room dedicated to his collection, as the whole room is filled with nothing but beautiful decor and ornaments, such as china vases, porcelain plates, gold plated jeweled eggs, solid gold and silver furniture, polished marble statues, expensive paintings, pretty music boxes etc. \n* The Nome King's Nic-Nac collection was accurately portrayed in Walt Disney's 1985 cult classic film Return to Oz."@en . . "Changing size"@en . . "Shapeshifting"@en . "King Ruggedo of the Runaway Land"@en . . "Metal Monarch"@en . . . "Nome King"@en . . . . . "First Appearance"@en . . . "300"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "King and ruler of the Nomes"@en . . "Oz books"@en . . . . . "Roquat of the Rocks"@en . . . . . . "The Nome King is a villain from The Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum. The Nome King is the heartless, tyrannical, manipulative, and dictatorial ruler of the Nomes (sometimes spelled \"Gnomes\"). He is the only villain in the series to ever come close to being the main antagonist. He appeared in countless novels and the Disney film, Return to Oz. He also appears as the archnemesis to Dorothy Gale and the other heroes. The Nomes hide jewels and precious metals in the earth and the Nome King, like his people, resent the \"upstairs people\", who dig down for those valuables. The Nome King is also sometimes called the Metal Monarch, which is among his other names Roquat the Red (alias) and Ruggedo (original name)."@en . . . . . "Original Publisher"@en . . . . . . . . "The Nome King"@en . . "Return to Oz"@en . "Princess Mombi , Wheelers"@en . . . . "Tyrant / Monarch / Archenemy"@en . . "Real Name"@en . . . . "Monarch"@en . . "The Nome King is a villain from The Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum. The Nome King is the heartless, tyrannical, manipulative, and dictatorial ruler of the Nomes (sometimes spelled \"Gnomes\"). He is the only villain in the series to ever come close to being the main antagonist. He appeared in countless novels and the Disney film, Return to Oz. He also appears as the archnemesis to Dorothy Gale and the other heroes. The Nomes hide jewels and precious metals in the earth and the Nome King, like his people, resent the \"upstairs people\", who dig down for those valuables."@en . . . "Created by"@en . . . "The Nome King is the main antagonist of Return to Oz."@en . . . . . . "Swallows an egg and is destroyed after Billina laid it"@en . . "Evil, seemingly gentle, playful, cruel"@en . . . . . . . "Oz"@en . . . . . "Stone creatures, Mombi"@en . . . . "Ruggedo"@en . . . "Long ago, the Gnome King provided Santa Claus with steel runners for his sleigh, and sleigh-bells for his reindeer. In return, he received a collection of toys for his children. He was part of the Council of Immortals who bestowed upon Santa Claus the Mantle of Immortality and was the first to cast his vote. Roquat of the Rocks purchased the Royal Family of Ev from King Evoldo in exchange for a long life, and turned them into pieces of bric-a-brac to decorate his home. Princess Ozma of Oz, Dorothy Gale, and a party from the Emerald City freed the royal family from his enslavement and, for good measure, took away his Magic Belt."@en . . . . . . . . "Accumulating jewels."@en . . "Stone magic"@en . . "Nome King"@en . . "There was also a different kind of Nome King, spelled \"Gnome\", that appeared in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus By L. Frank Baum. This may be Roquat earlier in his life or possibly a different Nome entirely from another fantasy realm, as he is never identified by name. \"The Nome King took the King Scarecrow and all of the emeralds back to his mountain, and turned everyone else to stone...\" \u2015Mombi in Return to Oz (1985) \n* The Nome King's Nic-Nac collection was accurately portrayed in Walt Disney's 1985 cult classic film Return to Oz."@en . . . . . . . . "The Nome King is the main antagonist of Return to Oz."@en . "Long ago, the Gnome King provided Santa Claus with steel runners for his sleigh, and sleigh-bells for his reindeer. In return, he received a collection of toys for his children. He was part of the Council of Immortals who bestowed upon Santa Claus the Mantle of Immortality and was the first to cast his vote. Roquat of the Rocks purchased the Royal Family of Ev from King Evoldo in exchange for a long life, and turned them into pieces of bric-a-brac to decorate his home. Princess Ozma of Oz, Dorothy Gale, and a party from the Emerald City freed the royal family from his enslavement and, for good measure, took away his Magic Belt. Roquat became so angry that he plotted revenge. He had his subjects dig a tunnel under the Deadly Desert while his general, Guph, recruited a host of evil spirits to conquer Oz. Fortunately, at the moment of invasion Roquat tasted the Water of Oblivion and forgot everything, including his enmity and his name. He returned to the Nome Kingdom and chose a new name, Ruggedo. Using some personal magic, he enslaved the Shaggy Man's Brother, a miner from Colorado. The Shaggy Man, with the help of Betsy Bobbin, the Oogaboo army, and some of Dorothy's old friends came to his rescue, and Ruggedo dropped them down the Hollow Tube. Quox the Dragon conquered Ruggedo using an enchanted ribbon to deprive Ruggedo of all his magic knowledge and power. Ruggedo was forced him into exile, and his former chamberlain, Kaliko, was installed as the new king. However, Kaliko agreed to let Ruggedo stay as long as he behaved, which he agreed to. Nevertheless, he had been exiled again by the time he met Kiki Aru in the Land of Ev. He overheard the boy's wicked intentions and saw him transform. He made an alliance with the boy to conquer the Land of Oz by inspiring an army of beasts to attack the Emerald City and then transforming the beasts into humans and the humans into beasts. He was transformed into a nut by the Wizard of Oz, and then restored to his proper shape only to be made to drink from the Water of Oblivion again. Ozma of Oz decreed that he should be kept in the Land of Oz and educated there, so as not to return to his evil nature as he would among the nomes. He was given a cabin to live in near the Emerald City, but he couldn't stand life above ground; the sun was too bright and he couldn't stand the people's happy faces in Oz. He dug a tunnel underground from his cabin to a cavern under Ozma's palace, which had previously been dug out by someone else. There, Ruggedo spent most of his time, hoping to conquer Ozma. His memory slowly returned, and he began to write his own history on a series of rocks. During the days, he would wander the Emerald City and steal things from the people of Oz, only to return them to his cavern and give them to his rabbit friend, Wag. Ruggedo eventually found Glegg's Box of Mixed Magic and used it to enlarge Wag and Peg Amy, the doll who he had habitually abused. He also turned his hair to iron spikes by accident and caused himself to grow into a giant. When he grew, Ozma's palace became impaled on his iron hair spikes. He then ran away in confusion and terror, traveling to the Land of Ev and sitting atop a mountain. The people inside the palace threatened him to not move or else they'd unleash thousands of eggs, so he sat perfectly still. The Sand Man accidentally crashed into the palace and dropped sand on everyone, making them fall asleep, including Ruggedo. Much later, when everyone had woken up, Ozma dropped trick oil on Ruggedo's feet, which caused him to walk back to the Emerald City, then shrink. Ozma made him tell her the whole story, and he begged for mercy. Now believing he would never reform, she exiled him to become the King of the Runaway Land."@en . . . . . "L. Frank Baum"@en . . . . . "Manipulation"@en .