What cartoon movie from the 70's or 80's was it that the trolls and goblins turned to stone or wood when the sun came up ? And I am not meaning LOTR/Hobbit. I am thinking Gnomes or some such... Because they came back to live in the dark again...
I thought of that...
David the Gnome it is :), I did like Gargoyls though :)
I just watched the first episode of David the Gnome on youtube. Anybody else think it was a little weird that a naked bathing gnome would invite people in to his bathroom to watch him bath? And what is up with stripping down to the long-johns to do surgery? Maybe it is the difference between Spain and the U.S., it just struck me as kind of weird.
I just watched the first episode of David the Gnome on youtube. Anybody else think it was a little weird that a naked bathing gnome would invite people in to his bathroom to watch him bath? And what is up with stripping down to the long-johns to do surgery? Maybe it is the difference between Spain and the U.S., it just struck me as kind of weird.
Because the series was based on this book, which depicts the gnome as Scandinavian/European (i.e. much more relaxed with nudity than Americans).
Also, performing surgery on an animal 100x bigger than yourself is going to be messy business, and ms. gnome gets tired of washing mr. gnome bloodstained clothes over and over again; so they strip (actually they are depicted as naked in the book when performing surgery).
But never mind Tolkien and the World of David the Gnome, wasn't "tuning to stone when exposed to sunlight" a trait of the Scandinavian trolls from mythology, or was it one of those Romantic Victorian additions to fairy-lore?
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The turning to stone thing is odd, as much as I am a master of the european folk lore, that one is not as much in my mind... I really want to say it is a christianized thing from early on in the Roman days... Just like ringing chirchbells drives away fairies... but really, why would it :)