W elcome to the castel beyond the Goblin City, a place where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems. Have you ever heard of the tale of the Goblin King? Say your right words and the goblins will come take your child away, though do be wary of your words because whats said is said, and words hold power here within the Labyrinth. Should you wish to get your child back, you must run the Labyrinth in which you have 13 hours to do so. Should you win, the child is yours and should you fail...the child will stay with us, and perhaps it shall be turned into a goblin. But don't worry, it's only forever, not long at all.
Join us in the odd world of Jim Henson and Brian Froud; A world of dwarves, goblins, monsters, faries, and other creatures you thought existed only in your dreams.
Over 1300 years prior to the events of the film, Jareth met the sorceress Mizumi at a ball and they formed a relationship. They went from world to world, whiling away their time together. Jareth eventually tired of Mizumi, considering her dull and superficial. When they came across a few goblins living in a swamp, Jareth found them amusing while Mizumi was disdainful of their presence. Ignoring her wish to leave, Jareth chose to remain with the goblins and establish himself as their King. He created the Labyrinth as the centrepiece of his new Kingdom, and told Mizumi he would only allow her to remain with him if she could find his heart, which he claimed to have hidden inside the Labyrinth. Although she tried searching the Labyrinth to find Jareth's heart, Mizumi failed and Jareth left her permanently.
Jareth ruled over the goblins alone, alternately amused and frustrated by their idiocy. Jareth took it upon himself to answer the call of those who invoked the goblins when wishing a child away, challenging those who chose to recover the wished away child to run his Labyrinth. Such summons were frequent early in Jareth's reign as King of the Goblins, however they dwindled as the years passed. Eventually it became rare for Jareth to be summoned to earth to take a child, and he grew despondent, increasingly aware of the passing of time and his inability to find a suitable successor.
Long into his reign as King of the Goblins, Jareth was summoned by Sarah to take her infant brother, Jareth took the baby, and told Sarah she had to journey through his Labyrinth to rescue her brother from his castle. Jareth fell in love with Sarah as he followed her progress through his Labyrinth, and was both unsettled and amazed by the fact she was able to overcome his Labyrinth and prove herself his equal. Jareth was shocked by Sarah's ultimate defeat of him, and, although barred from going to her in his human form, watched her through her bedroom window in his owl-form after she returned to her own world.
In the wake of Sarah's defeat of him, Jareth started to lose his powers and lost control of his Labyrinth. Jareth blamed Sarah for his failing powers, and decided that the only way for him to recover would be to have Sarah by his side in some form. Unable to have the real Sarah, Jareth asked Mizumi to make an ablation out of Sarah's dreams that he could keep with him as a companion, in exchange for a promise that Mizumi would have the Labyrinth and its King if he failed to make the ablation love him. Mizumi created Moppet for Jareth, and Jareth took Moppet back to his Kingdom. For a time, his powers returned however they soon started to falter once again.
Unable to make Moppet love him, Jareth abandoned her and refocused his energies on how he could escape his debt to Mizumi and reach Sarah. He decided to abdicate, making Toby his heir. This freed him to travel to earth, where he found Sarah. Jareth manipulated Sarah into returning with him, will Sarah be able to save the Labyrinth once more?
