Why? Was this from the book?
I see why water might be fatal to a dirty witch, but I fail to see the connection between a gnome king and eggs?
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The Nome King is terribly afraid of eggs in the book as well, but unlike the movie, they don't kill him. The Scarecrow pelts him with eggs and they cause him no harm. The only thing damaged is his ego.
Don't eva let nobody tell you you ain't strong enough
They removed their powers in the books,
shareI thought it was hilarious when the egg entered the Gnome king, and it turned out to be poison to him .. .LOL
Very funny.. they finally tied in the Hen from Dorothy's farm home.. :)
It's never clear in the books how an egg would poison a Nome. The Nome King (who's more like an imp rather than a rock elemental) says eggs are poison, but he's hit with a couple and comes to no harm. Just "egg on his face."
A later book has this...
If by chance the inside of an egg touches one of these underground people, he withers up and blows away and that is the end of him—unless he manages quickly to speak a magical word which only a few of the nomes know. Therefore Ruggedo and his followers had very good cause to shudder at the mere mention of eggs.
What we see and what we seem are but a dream. A dream within a dream.share
Thanx for shedding some light on this.
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THIS DRIVES ME NUTS TOO! I talked about in my review of the movie here: https://youtu.be/MEHKha39Xqo
shareI saw, fun watch. jad1986 puts some light on this above.
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I always thought the egg thing was funny, kind of like the David and Goliath thing. That part of the show is so cool when the Nome King is dying and all the other Nomes disappear saying "poison" and he's slowly being eaten away. Those scenes were incredible for a 1985 movie.
shareIndeed and in good spirit with the 1938 prequel where mere water was enough. But David uses a sharp stone after all, and so I just wondered if there was some "logic" to the egg. And there was some, as jad1986 explains above.
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