Engywook is a character in Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story. Engywook is a gnome who lives with his wife, Urgl, near the Southern Oracle. Engywook has spent his life studying the Southern Oracle and her three gates, although he has never entered any of them. Engywook has an observatory where he can observe the Sphinxes of the Riddle Gate. In Chapter 5 of the novel, he shows them to Atreyu, who has to lie on his stomach in order to look through the telescope. In the first film, Engywook