Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27729149-20151204153148/@comment-27818776-20160114050529

I see; anyone, it concerns the novel version of the Nome King from Return to Oz. I'm sure that you know what this film is about, but if you don't, in Return to Oz, Dorothy is taken to a mental hospital after she had spoken about Oz one to many times, and just when she was about to get electroshock therapy, a girl (presumably one of the patients) rescues her, and she returns to Oz when she was being swept away in the flooded river. When she revisits Oz, she sees that the Yellow Brick Road had been destroyed, the inhabitants had been turned to stone, clown-like entities on wheels simply known as the Wheelers haunt the streets, etc. Now, in the film, the Nome King has a few "Pet the Dog" moments towards Dorothy such as when he was comforting her when she was crying over the Scarecrow, and offered to return her to her home. In the novel, however, the Nome King merely fakes sympathy for Dorothy, and proposes a game to further thrust the knife. The objective of the game was to find the Scarecrow, who was trapped in one of the ornaments in his collection room. The thing is, that the Nome King uses magic to transform Dorothy's companions into green ornaments, and he becomes more human-like in appearance. He is draining the characters of their life essences, and the reason as to why he wants to become human is because he would be the most powerful person in Oz. The Oz books explain that a magic user is powerful because of the knowledge of that trade, so the Nome King would still retain his mind when he became fully human. The Nome King is essentially draining the lives of all of the inhabitants of Oz that he had turned into stone.