Talk:Morlock

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138.243.228.52 17:54, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I seem to remember a Sliders episode (The Last of Eden) that dealt with Morlocks, or at least a very similar concept. Kelvingreen 10:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

State of Alaska More recently, the resource room staff for the State of Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development are known as Morlocks. This is attributed to their averion to sunlight, affinity for ALEXsys, lack of alternate work weeks and a myriad of other eccentricities. Currently, these Morlocks on the first floor are to be differentiated from the much more enlightened Eloi on the second floor of the Gambell Job Center and Public Assistance Office. These Morlocks are easily distracted, however, by the implementation of a fishing pole and chocolate. Labor Morlocks commonly utilize unsightly forms of transportation. As a result, many of the Employment Security Specialist Morlocks despise the Elite Security Specialist Eloi who enjoy such luxuries. They are jaded, disenchanted beings who are often at the butt of a joke or scheming to foil the plans of the Elite Security Specialists; when it is the Morlocks themselves who are traditionally foiled. A Morlock's personality and success rate are reflected in their clients' sapped and impurified essences. Their likeness can be described as gaunt and pale. This description does not apply if one has worked at the Anchorage Midtown Job Center during the debut of ALEXsys. Finally, they are not to be trusted.

not exactly on topic so I deleted it... funny though canoman(^_^)

...And added to WP:BJAODN. Synergism 05:23, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone provide some etymology? --Oop 11:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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-The Power Rangers thing comes up three times. Can someone fix that? - Big Bang Theory is also mentioned in both television shows and popular culture references. This page goes through the episode twice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thepiranha (talk • contribs) 23:58, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure Tolkien wrote a poem about Morlocks? He wrote one called The Mewlips... possibly these have been mixed up. Please either supply a reference or delete. Jeffgwatts (talk) 05:13, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A year has passed and no citation is forthcoming, so I've deleted the reference. Jeffgwatts (talk) 22:39, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What would the Morlocks (& for that matter the Eloi) species classification be like? And what would they be called, as in Homo Sapiens ... & whatever the latin is for subterranean or cannibal, or both ? 80.254.146.140 (talk) 11:58, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WHY isnt there anything about the morlocks in the marvel universe? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.59.188.10 (talk) 21:24, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"(B)ecause of the Morlocks' adaptations to darkness, the Eloi have an incredible fear of the dark and are terrified of being underground." The Eloi are afraid of the dark because of the Morlocks' adaptations to the dark? Is this the reason the book gives for the fear of the Eloi? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 17:37, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I found this idea fascinating:

"In choosing the name "Morlocks", Wells may have been inspired by the Morlachs - an ethnic group in the Balkans which attracted the attention of Western and Central European travelers and writers, including famous ones such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and who were described and depicted in various writings as an archetype of "primitive people", "backwardness", "barbarism" and the like."

I want to ask the author for whatever links they have connecting Herder and Goethe and other European writers to a perception of the Morlachs as primitive, backward barbarians. So far, all I've seen from Herder has been positive, promoting some of the folk poetry. I've done some research on this in connection to my grandmother's village re: The Sjenicak Revolt. I've read some of Gojka Nikolas' account and he described the perception of the villagers on those terms. "They may as well have been living on the Amazon" for all anyone knew about them and thought of their lifestyle. His description of Ballatin is evocative of a furry, hulking ape of a man who was the scandal of Europe ca. 1895. It was as an event on a par with Treyvon Martin in terms of longevity of newsworthiness and social debate. I want to research the popular literature of the time in the germanic nations. This is the same population recently driven into cultural extinction by Operation Storm. Those of us following this history have seen a pattern of historic contempt that was never widely acknowledged, including the sadistic extermination of hundreds of thousands of them during World War II by Croatian fascists.

Current Croatian revisionism is frequently referring to the minority Serb population, now removed, as 'really just Vlach and Morlach.'

The fifties version of "The Cat People," demonstrates the American perception of the period as Serbs being primitives immersed in backward superstitions and black magic. Karris828 (talk) 03:20, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]