creature
Nomes
Rock-like supernatural beings that labor in the underground kingdom for the Nome King.
First named in Ozma of Oz, ch. 9
25 of 28 citations here quote the sentence they rest on. All of them are checked against the book on every build. The other 3 rest on the name appearing in the chapter cited.
As the books describe them
They were strangely formed creatures, rather round and not very tall. Their toes were curly and their ears broad and flat. The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 4
Appears in
- Ozma of Oz, ch. 11
The Nomes started to laugh again; but a low growl came from the mountain, and in a flash they had all vanished from sight and were silent.
- Ozma of Oz, ch. 19
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 26
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 28
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 29
- Rinkitink in Oz, ch. 17
- The Magic of Oz, ch. 23
Mentioned in
- Ozma of Oz, ch. 9
Under his rule are many thousands of the Nomes, who are queerly shaped but powerful sprites that labor at the furnaces and forges of their king, making gold and silver and other metals which they conceal in the crevices of the rocks, so that those living upon the earth's surface can only find them with great difficulty.
- Ozma of Oz, ch. 14
- Ozma of Oz, ch. 15
- Ozma of Oz, ch. 17
- Ozma of Oz, ch. 18
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 1
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 4
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 6
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 8
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 11
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 13
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 18
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 24
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 25
- The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 27
- Little Wizard Stories of Oz, ch. 3
- The Magic of Oz, ch. 14
Named in these chapters without being in them.
Connections
- servant of Roquat, in Ozma of Oz, ch. 11
- servant of Roquat the Red, in The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 4
- servant of King Roquat the Red, in The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 8
- servant of Nome King, in The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 24
Connections from others
- Nome King rules Nomes, in The Emerald City of Oz, ch. 25
Seen alongside
- Dorothy Gale 6
- Ozma 6
- The Scarecrow 5
- The Tin Woodman 5
- Aunt Em 2
- Chief of the Whimsies 2
- First and Foremost 2
- Foremost 2
- Guph 2
- Jack Pumpkinhead 2
- Omby Amby 2
- Ruler of Oz 2
- The Shaggy Man 2
- Billina 1
People, creatures and things that are in the same chapters — not merely named in them. A trail to follow, not a claim about the story.
Seen in
From the chapters set there, and from sentences that put the two together with a word of place. Being named in the same chapter is not enough.