—La llamada de los gnomos

»Es war einmal ein Land
in dem das Denken verboten
Nur ein kleiner Wicht
befolgte die Gebote nicht
Er wurde bedrängt, er wurde bedroht
Denn auf das Denken stand der Tod«
—Hölderlin, Requiem für einen Wicht

»Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
It's off to work we go
We keep on singing all day long
Heigh-ho«
Tom Waits – Heigh Ho (The Dwarfs Marching Song)

»Ferryboat Bill, won’t you please come home?
You know your wife has married a midget’s son.
You know your wife has married a midget’s son?
And that's the short and long of it.«
—The Velvet Underground – Ferryboat Bill

't was in the darkest dephts of Mordor
I met a girl so fair
But Gollum
And the evil one
Crept up
And slipped away with her.

—Led Zeppelin, Ramble On

Kickin’ stones on an old dirt road
Feelin’ d-dejected and all alone
When I looked up ahead thought my mind I’d blown
On a giant toadstool sat a teeny tiny gnome

— Soft Cell: Sex Dwarf

Gnome, Gnome…
Radio Gnome…
Radio Gnome, Radio Gnome Invisible

»Camembert Electrique contained the first signs of the band’s mythology of the peaceful Planet Gong populated by Radio Gnomes, Pothead Pixies, and Octave Doctors. These characters along with Zero the Hero are the focus of Gong’s next three albums, the Radio Gnome Trilogy, consisting of Flying Teapot (1973), Angel’s Egg (1974), and You (1975). On these albums, protagonist Zero the Hero is a space traveler from Earth who gets lost and finds the Planet Gong, is taught the ways of that world by the gnomes, pixies, and Octave Doctors and is sent back to Earth to spread the word about this mystical planet.« (Quelle)

Vader Abraham: »Sagt mal, von wo kommt ihr denn her?«
Chor der Schlümpfe: »Aus Schlumpfhausen, bitte sehr.«

»Vader Abraham hat zahlreiche Preise erhalten. Er erhielt 128 Goldene Schallplatten als Komponist und 57 Goldene und Diamantene Schallplatten mit seinen Schlümpfen.« (Quelle)

»Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, appears from a deep chasm and tries to woo them. Struck by his ugliness, the Rhinemaidens mock his advances, and Alberich grows angry.«
—Wikipedia: Das Rheingold

David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

Ian Faith: I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it.

Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.

—Spinal Tap – Stonehenge, the Aftermath, Pt. 3 of 3

»Justus war so klein, daß man ihn nicht sah
Doch vertu dich nicht, denn er war doch immer da«


—EA80: Justus (einer von Jenen)

—Chantal Goya: David le gnome