![]() ![]() They dwell underground in the English countryside of AD 802,701, maintaining ancient machines that they may or may not remember how to build. Later, the Morlocks are made the story's antagonists. The Morlocks are at first a mysterious presence in the book, in so far as the protagonist initially believes the Eloi are the sole descendants of humanity. Alternatively, he may have also been inspired by the Morlachs, an ethnic group in the Balkans which attracted attention from Western travellers as a perceived archetype of barbarism and backwardness. In choosing the name "Morlocks", Wells may have been inspired by Moloch, the Caananite god of child sacrifice, with the Eloi analogous to children. Wells, the Morlocks have appeared in many other works such as sequels, films, television shows, and works by other authors, many of which have deviated from the original description. Wells for his 1895 novel, The Time Machine. Morlocks are a fictional species created by H. Morlock carrying an Eloi, by Virgil Finlay (1950) ![]()
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