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Topic: Moomintroll


  
  Little Gems - The Moomins by Tove Jansson
Moomintroll is the son of Moominmamma and Moominpappa.
Moominmamma is married to Moominpappa and is Moomintroll's mum.
Moominpappa is married to Moominmamma and is Moomintroll's father.
www.thechestnut.com /moomins.htm   (1482 words)

  
 moomintrolls
They are small, and fat and smooth -unlike their cousins, the common trolls, who are hairy- and Moomintrolls like sunshine, whereas other trolls are only active in the nighttime.
Moomintrolls have tails, but they should not be confused with snorks or snorkmaidens, who change colors with their emotions, and who also have tufts of hair on their foreheads.
Moomintroll goes off to find adventure, but he's much more obedient and family-orientated; more of a home-body than Snufkin, who disappears every Autumn to travel to parts unknown.
www.angelfire.com /punk2/walktheplank/moomintrolls.html   (1263 words)

  
 Unofficial Moomin Character Guide
Moomintroll is the son of Moominmamma and Moominpappa, and is best friends with Snufkin.
Moomintroll appears in Comet in Moominland, Finn Family Moomintroll, The Exploits of Moominpappa, Moominsummer Madness, Moominland Midwinter, and Moominpappa at sea.
Moominmamma is married to Moominpappa and is Moomintroll's mother.
www.geocities.com /lindashippert/moomin/moominnf.html   (1792 words)

  
 Moomin Land
Moomintroll put his hands in front of his eyes and cried: 'Mamma!' and then he waited to be eaten.
Moomintroll, his mother and the small creature were so agitated and surprised that for a long time they were unable to say anything.
Moomintroll lay close to his mother, listening to the song of the frogs out on the marsh.
groups.msn.com /MoominLand/trolls1.msnw   (1464 words)

  
 Nordic Culture > Tove Jansson, Finnish author and creator of the Moomin trolls - Scandinavica.com
They are Moominmamma, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and their friends, and they all live happy in Moomin valley.
Tove Jansson is mainly known for her famous Moomintrolls, but she was also an artist who painted and wrote adult fiction and short stories.
Moomintroll's friends are Snork and his sister Snorkmaiden, the vagabond Snufkin, and many other strange characters who appear in the Moomin valley from time to time.
www.scandinavica.com /culture/famous/jansson.htm   (1207 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Finn Family Moomintroll: 2 (Puffin Books): Books: Tove Jansson,Elizabeth Portch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Moomintroll wakes up in the middle of winter whislt all the rest of the family are still hibernating.
Finn Family Moomintroll is a collection of several of the Moomin funny and silly little adventures following the discovery of the hat.
Moomintroll is free from any restraints and lives the blissfully happy life we all long for.
www.amazon.co.uk /Finn-Family-Moomintroll-Puffin-Books/dp/014030150X   (1367 words)

  
 Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It's a story about Moomintroll and his friends' expedition to the Observatory in the Misty Mountains and about the arrival of the great comet that intrudes the Little Trolls' peaceful life.
Moomintroll gazed at the beach stretching until far away and at the empty bottom of the sea.
It's a story about the Moomintrolls who really appear only in the recollections and tales of the characters visiting their house while Moomintrolls themselves dwell on the Island.
www.yellowfrog.pl /muminki/english/biblio.htm   (2872 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Finn Family Moomintroll: Books: Tove Jansson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
At one point in the book Moomintroll meets two little friends that make him be a judge for a trail against a funny mysterious creature.
Moomintroll is the main character he is white and looks kind of like a hippo that stands on two legs with no big teeth and a long tail with fur at the end of it.
Finn Family Moomintroll is probably the best introduction to the Moomin Family, and a great book to read by yourself, to give to that special child in your life, or better yet, to share with him/her by reading it aloud.
www.amazon.ca /Finn-Family-Moomintroll-Tove-Jansson/dp/014030150X   (1427 words)

  
 Memories of Finland
When Moomintroll learns that a comet will be passing by, heand his friend Sniff travel to the observatory on the Lonely Mountains to consult the Professors.
Moomintroll and his friends Snufkin and Sniff find the Hobgoblin's top hat, all shiny and new and just waiting to be taken home.
Moomintroll is angry: whoever Winter is, she has some nerve.
www.memoriesoffinland.com /catalog.asp?category=273   (566 words)

  
 Orange Splot: Moomintroll and Friends
Moomintrolls are cute little creatures who live in Finland.
Moomintroll lives with Moominmama and Moominpapa, his friend Sniff (who looks kind of like a small kangaroo), and occasionally the Hemulen.
Moomintroll has a crush on the Snork Maiden, who looks like a moomintroll but changes colors when her emotions change.
www.orangesplot.com /2005/06/moomintroll-and-friends.htm   (300 words)

  
 Untitled
When Moomintroll, the small creature and Tulippa got there, Moominmamma was standing in the midst of the Hattifatteners (who only came up to her waist), talking and asking questions and waving her arms, and very excited.
Moomintroll took a steady hold of his mother, and the small creature was so excited that it did not manage to do anything at all.
Moomintroll ran as fast as he could on his short legs, and far away he saw the marabou stork poking about in the water.
www.halldor.demon.co.uk /MOOMIN1.htm   (6590 words)

  
 The Moomin World and its creator — Virtual Finland
Somewhere at the top of any list would be Tove Jansson (1914-2001) of Finland, creator of the world of the moomintrolls and their friends, a world which is both strange and a little dangerous, while being pleasant and familiar at the same time.
Moomintroll, that chubby, cheerful being, came into existence as a family joke when Tove Jansson was a young girl.
The first Moomintroll story is about how he and his mother venture out into the world to look for his missing father.
virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/moomieng.html   (1357 words)

  
 Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first Moomintroll ceramics appeared already in the late 1950s with a three-part children’s set of the Kilta series by Kaj Franck.
However, the Moomintroll craze faded at Arabia for three decades, until a new series was introduced in 1990.
An animated Moomintroll television series was being produced in Japan in 1991, and with it came a Moomintroll boom in Japan and elsewhere.
www.hs.fi /english/print/1101979903777   (440 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
While she was doing this, Moomintroll, the Sniff and Snufkin were lying on the riverside, looking at the clouds.
Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden had their eyes turned on each other instead.
Moomintroll let the Snork in and asked what was the matter.
www.helsinki.fi /~palaste/fanfic/Moomin.txt   (1548 words)

  
 Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter
In Moominland Midwinter, Moomintroll is separated from most of his loving family and friends by the simple accident of waking up in the middle of hibernation time.
Moomintroll has to deal with problems bereft of the parental support and praise he is used to; while Too-Ticky, a carefree philosopher who lives in the Moomin's bathing-house during winter, serves as a wise adult figure, she's not particularly supportive.
Moomintroll and Little My are perfect foils for each other — Little My teaching Moomintroll to loosen up and enjoy the moment, and Moomintroll trying to teach Little My about responsibility and compassion.
www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_jansson_midwinter.html   (387 words)

  
 Books | The Moomintrolls
I think it is Finn Family Moomintroll, which starts with the unlikely narrative device of everybody falling asleep for the winter.
There are Hemulens (they wear dresses and collect things obsessively); the Hattifatteners (they look like tiny asparagus with faces, and become electrified during thunder storms), Little My; Misabel; the Creep; the philosopher Muskrat, who knows all there is to know about why everything is useless.
It is permeated by a constant sense of expectation (the comet approaching, the sea drying up, the flood, etc) shot through with profound Scandinavian melancholy.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5000879-102011,00.html   (187 words)

  
 The Fir Tree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Moomintroll went into the house and collected all the candles he could find.
He placed them in the snow around the tree and lit them, one by one, until they were all shining to placate the darkness and the Christmas.
But the thing that Moomintroll wrapped was so precious and so private that nobody else got to see it.
nea.pp.se /firtree.html   (1846 words)

  
 Moomintroll
Moomintroll was born on the day Queen released Bohemian Rhapsody.
Moomintroll's favourite activity (that can be discussed in public anyway) is Aikido.
Moomintroll is currently in the process of setting up the university gothsoc, with his Mancgoff friends.
www.grimoire.8k.com /netgoth/people/moomin.html   (286 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Finn Family Moomintroll (Moomintrolls): Books: Tove Jansson,Elizabeth Portch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The stories focus on the Moominfamily (Moominpapa, Moominmama, and Moomintroll) and their extended family of guests who came to live with them and never left, Sniff, Snuffkin and the Muskrat (the philosopher).
"Finn Family Moomintroll" is a set of loosely connected stories; you can read one at a time without having to remember what happened last, or caring what will happen next (now, your child WILL insist that you keep on reading when you finish a story, you can be sure of that!).
Moomintroll, a young moomin, is always getting into trouble with his friends, the Snork Maiden, Sniff, and many...
www.amazon.com /Finn-Family-Moomintroll-Moomintrolls-Jansson/dp/0374423075   (1406 words)

  
 ::moomintroll::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Each character in MoominValley has their own attitudes and styles, and therefore it is important that we get to know the 'real' character.
MoominTroll was always my favourite character, even in the days when I absolutely despised everything Moomin-like in appearance.
If MoominTroll was here right now, he would instantly become my best friend in the world.
website.lineone.net /~simon.adams/moomintroll.html   (191 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Comet in Moominland (Moomintrolls): Books: Tove Jansson,Elizabeth Portch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Some of the Moomintroll books are more pastoral in nature, featuring the Moomin family just lounging around and talking to each other and various other denizens of the neighbourhood.
Just read the bit in the beginning where Moomintroll finds the hidden cave, or the part where Sniff and Moomintroll are travelling downriver - there's an air of adventure and beauty to that that seems to have died a lonely death in children's literature sometime in recent history.
Friends Moomintroll and Sniff go out on an adventure to find out about a comet and meet up with a traveler named Snufkin and then later with a Snork Maiden and her brother, as well as many other imaginative characters.
www.amazon.com /Comet-Moominland-Moomintrolls-Tove-Jansson/dp/0374413312   (1697 words)

  
 Moomin Light: Moomintroll books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Moomintroll books are a lovely series by the Finnish author Tove Jansson.
Moominmamma is the mother of Moomintroll, the main character.
"They [Moomintroll and Moominmamma] sat side by side in the moss and watched the schooner sail across the pond and land at the other shore beside a large leaf...
mlight.typepad.com /moomin_light/2005/10/the_moomintroll.html   (275 words)

  
 Moomins, Momintroll, Moomincharacters & Tove Jansson
Moomintroll was created long ago by the artist Tove Jansson.
Moomintroll admires Snufkin and loves to sit and fish with him.
Moomintroll is in love with Snorkmaiden and at times slightly jealous of her attentions.
www.muumimaailma.fi /englanti/muumit.html   (922 words)

  
 Moomin, Tove Jansson, Moomintroll, Mummintrollet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Swedish-speaking and writing Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) created the world of the Moomintrolls and their friends out of whole cloth.
A Moomintroll, small and shy, chubby but cheerful, came into existence in the mid-1940s.
The very first Moomintroll tale tells of how he and his Moominmamma set out into the dense forests of Finland (soon to be renamed Moominvalley) to look for his missing Moominpappa.
www.therussianshop.com /russhop/christmas/mar.htm   (142 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Finn Family Moomintroll: English Books: Tove Jansson,Elizabeth Portch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I remember my dad reading the Moomintroll books to me when I was very young.
this is the very first of the moomintroll series by tove jansson.
it is full of moomintroll and his friends adventures, in their beautiful fantasy land.
www.amazon.de /Finn-Family-Moomintroll-Tove-Jansson/dp/0374423075   (860 words)

  
 Moomintrolls Galore
In Finn Family Moomintroll, for example, Moominmamma, in scratchy English, writes an enchanting letter to the "Dear Children" that will be reading the tales about her family soon.
On the "adult" side of the roster, the Muskrat's dry pessimism is a delightful counterpoint to the rambling adventures of Moomintroll and his friends.
It's all quite spooky and adventurous, especially when Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden get separated from the rest of the family and have to fend for themselves, not knowing if they will ever see their friends and family again.
www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_jansson_moomin_omni.html   (2394 words)

  
 WonderBlog: Moomintroll memories
While looking in the library for the original Doctor Doolittle series (which, believe me, is a whole nother story) I remembered another series of books I loved as a child: Moomintrolls.
It is fun to go back to the books you read as a child and see what you think of them when you are grown up.
Moomintroll is the perfect introspective child, and Little My is the best bratty little sister.
www.murphyhorner.com /archives/000265.html   (443 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - Moomintroll, moomin, tove jansson, Children's Books items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Finn Family Moomintroll ~ Tove Jansson *Moomins 1979 VG
Tove Jansson Finn Family Moomintroll vgc Puffin pb
MNA Moomintroll Snork Maiden Car Seat Belt Cover Pad
search.ebay.co.uk /Moomintroll_W0QQfclZ4QQfnuZ1   (166 words)

  
 Finn Family Moomintroll / Tove Jansson (Illustrator) - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
She was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1914 and lived until 2001.
Jansson wrote her first brief Moomintroll tale in 1945, “Comet in Moominland”.
Tove Jansson also drew the Moomin comic strip for the Evening News, a London newspaper of the time, from 1953 to 1959 and was then succeeded by her brother Lars Jansson,...
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/finn-family-moomintroll-tove-jansson-illustrator   (330 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Moomin Valley
She is very sweet and a little nervous, and moomintroll and snork maiden appear to have a small romance going on, although this is never really confirmed it the books..
However, everybody inexplicably loves her, and (according to the anime series of 'The Moomintrolls'), 'The Little Mys of this world are virtually indestructible'........
He has various projects - collecting first stamps and then wild flowers, he is absentminded and a bit petty and on a moomin family trip to the Island, he managed to upset the Hattifnatners (see later) which was not a wise move.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A639010   (1195 words)

  
 Education World® - *Arts & Humanities : Literature : Children's Literature : Series Books : Moomintroll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Finn Family Moomintroll Character descriptions from the books, along with pictures and a few links.
Moomi Madness Provides a history of Moomintrolls and a few links.
Moomintrolls, a Traveling Exhibition Description of the Moomins from a traveling exhibition of the Finnish series of children's books held in the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=12457   (423 words)

  
 Allakhazam's World of Warcraft Character Profiles
Speak with the spirit of Joseph Redpath when he appears at the town square, then speak with Pamela at her home.
Prove your allegiance to the Circle, Moomintroll, and I will make you a powerful weapon from the finest Qiraji materials.
To free Thunderaan the Windseeker from his prison, you must present the right and left halves of the Bindings of the Windseeker, 10 bars of Elementium, and the Essence of the Firelord to Highlord Demitrian in Silithus.
wow.allakhazam.com /profile.html?90223   (2774 words)

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