Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27729149-20151204153148/@comment-27818776-20160116141325

Anyway, from the way it looks for the Novel!Nome King, he seems to be a qualifier, though, there are a few concerns. For one, him offering snacks for Dorothy and her friends, and putting Jack back down after he had accidentally ingested an egg from Billina (a chicken). It is true that the Nome King was faking sympathy for Dorothy in the novel version of RTO, and when he offered to send her back to Kansas if she were to betray her friends and forget all about Oz seems hollow considering that he enjoyed seeing her cry earlier. Once again, he states that he could send her back through the Ruby Slippers, but he is actually only offering that, thinking that Dorothy would willingly go back if it meant abandoning her friends to their fates as green ornaments. With the reason as to why he didn't choose to kill Jack Pumpkinhead towards the end, I interpreted it as being Pragmatic Villainy-- with him dying, he no longer felt any joy at the thought of killing Dorothy and her friends, thereby he saw no point in killing Jack.

As for a Freudian Excuse, the NK claims earlier that the people of Oz had stolen his precious gems, so he stole them back. Yeah, turning all of the Ozinians into stone, imprisoning the rulers of Oz in a mirror and green ornament respectively is completely legitimate. He is, by all means, a megalomaniac who craves power. When the Ruby Slippers fell back to Oz after Dorothy left, he used that opportunity to conquer the Emerald City, and only craved more power.

Of course, I'm still not finished reading the novel (school comes first, after all), but this is what I'm interpreting so far on the Nome King.