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Scandinavian folklore often depicts their gnomes and nisser in grey clothing.

 

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This is partly because of their association with dusk, partly because these races, including elves (see below), often are outside moral standards (black or white).

 

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Literature / Film / Music

 

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In J. R. R. Tolkien's works:

 

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Gandalf is called the Grey Pilgrim.

 

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The Grey Havens

 

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The Grey Elves

 

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Ered Mithrin, the Grey Mountains. Tolkien chose grey from folklore tradition mentioned above.

 

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The Noldor and the Dúnedain typically have grey eyes.

 

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Rand al'Thor of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time is described as having grey eyes.

 

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In the series The T*Witches, those of magical power are described as having grey eyes.

 

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In Michael Ende's Momo, the men in grey are malicious spirits who prey on people's time and trick them into "saving" it.

 

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In Don DeLillo's 1985 novel White Noise, the inventor of Dylar is at first only referred to as Mr. Gray.

 

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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two seminal sword-and-sorcery fantasy heroes created by Fritz Leiber.

 

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The Brenin Llwyd, the eponymous antagonist of The Grey King, by Susan Cooper.

 

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The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

 

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Gray Lady Down, an action film about a stranded submarine.

 

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A purposely nonsensical line in Paul Simon's song "I Do It For Your Love": "We were married / On a rainy day / The sky was yellow / And the grass was gray."

 

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A song from The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies album is titled Here Come the People in Grey.

 

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Television