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Nascent Drama

Scandinavian folklore often depicts their gnomes and nisser in grey clothing.
 
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).
 
Ered Mithrin, the Grey Mountains. Tolkien chose grey from folklore tradition mentioned above.
 
The Noldor and the Dúnedain typically have grey eyes.
 
Rand al'Thor of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time is described as having grey eyes.
 
In the series The T*Witches, those of magical power are described as having grey eyes.
 
In Michael Ende's Momo, the men in grey are malicious spirits who prey on people's time and trick them into "saving" it.
 
In Don DeLillo's 1985 novel White Noise, the inventor of Dylar is at first only referred to as Mr. Gray.
 
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two seminal sword-and-sorcery fantasy heroes created by Fritz Leiber.
 
The Brenin Llwyd, the eponymous antagonist of The Grey King, by Susan Cooper.
 
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
 
Gray Lady Down, an action film about a stranded submarine.
 
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."
 
A song from The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies album is titled Here Come the People in Grey.
 
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