Lost His Marbles Peter Pan

Being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles.

Lost his marbles peter pan.

Tootles is one of the lost boys appearing in almost all peter pan related material. Wendy is the eldest of the darling children and the supreme authority on peter pan and his marvelous adventures. From the film hook. Darling liddel davies bennett.

Q from mike pataky. Can you tell me the origin of the expression he has lost his marbles meaning gone mad or lost his reason or done something really stupid being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles. Tootles appears in almost all peter pan related material. Upon finding his marbles he became more spontaneous and joyful over the fact that he hadn t really lost his marbles and he was a whole functioning person as he believed he once was.

He is described as the most humble of the lost boys because of his terrible luck with adventures. 10 how does. 4 which lost boy wears a skunk costume. His shadow his marbles his hat tinker bell.

When peter returns them to him by the end of the movie they prove to be the cure to his. Because of this he has become accepting of his lot in life and is much sweeter for it. Tootles is the peter pan character who is seen searching for something on the floor and explains i ve lost my marbles in the movie hook. As soon as tootles goes away to complete a chore or somesuch bloody battles and thrilling adventures take place.

He is described as the most humble of the lost boys because of his terrible luck with adventures. In this clip we see peter restoring the lost marbles. With several hidden entrances that peter and the lost boys use to enter and exit their hideout. Is this the origin a there s no mention of marbles in j m barrie s original 1904 play peter pan.

As soon as tootles goes away to complete a chore or some such bloody battles and thrilling adventures take place. The marbles represented at least to him a source balance or logic in his life without which he came to see himself as a bumbling idiot. Tootles the lost boy first encountered as an elderly man in wendy s home has literally lost his marbles.