With the help of Alfur, Hilda goes in search of the Elf King, who has the authority to save her house. Meanwhile, she finds her house is being visited by a giant the likes of which hasn't been seen in many years.
Tropes:
- Adaptation Expansion: The episode adapts the second half of "Hilda and the Midnight Giant", but adds two new scenes that were not in the graphic novel: Johanna and Hilda going on a daytrip to Trolberg, and Johanna and Hilda packing their car for the move to Trolberg, while the Woodman comes to say goodbye.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the Graphic Novels, David and Frida first appear in Hilda and the Black Hound. Here, they make their first appearance when Hilda meets them at the school playground.
- Adipose Rex: The King is pretty big... for an elf.
- All There in the Manual: All the giants in Wood Man's book have names and backgrounds that are elaborated upon in the graphic novel this episode was adapted from. The female giant remains unnamed in this episode however, but Hilda's Book of Beasts and Spirits identifies her as Illus.
- Behind the Black: Somehow, nobody notices the mountain sized Jorgen until he catches Hilda when she falls off the female giant.
- Big Fancy Castle: Inverted. The King lives in a large and opulent castle for an elf. Which still makes it small enough for Hilda to pick up and run with.
- Bittersweet Ending: Despite managing to reunite Jorgen with his lost love and having the Elf King allow her family to stay, Jorgen accidentally destroys Hilda's house, prompting Hilda and Johanna to move to Trolberg.
- Cave Mouth: What Hilda thinks is a cave turns out to be a giant's ear.
- Colossus Climb: Hilda climbs Jorgen by hanging to the hair that covers his body. Later, the mountain she climbed to get to the Elf King is also revealed to be a giant.
- Deep Sleep: The Giantess has been asleep for thousands of years, to the point that she has become part of the landscape!
- Early-Bird Cameo: On her trip to Trolberg, Hilda runs into Frida and David, who would come to be her best friends and fellow Sparrow Scouts. In the same scene, Trevor and one of his friends can be briefly seen. Both will be properly introduced in the following episode.
- Gentle Giant: Jorgen and his girlfriend are both examples of this. Jorgen even saves Hilda's life. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean they don't cause damage by mistake.
- Giant Woman: Jorgen alludes to one in his conversation with Hilda, and it turns out she was waiting for him the whole time.
- Hair-Trigger Avalanche: Hilda causes and narrowly avoids one in front of the Elf King's castle.
- Hearing Voices: The Giantess at first believes that Hilda is this, as she can clearly hear someone talking to her, but can't see anyone.
- History Repeats: At a certain point, it becomes undeniable that just like the giants, the world has become too small for Hilda and her mother, and it would be best for everyone if they leave.
- Hope Spot: The elf King and Hilda sign a treaty that no longer makes her a threat to the elf kingdom, and Hilda joyously tells her mother that they don’t have to move. But then her and Johanna’s house is immediately smooshed, which makes their treaty pointless.
- In a Single Bound: Once Jorgen and his girlfriend have found each other, they follow the other giants and jump into space, as Wood Man speculated they did.
- I Will Wait for You: Both Jorgen and his girlfriend display this trope: Jorgen when he returns night after night even when his girlfriend seems to have forgotten him, and his girlfriend when she sits in the valley for thousands of years, waiting for him to return from his post.
- Multi-Part Episode: Picks up where "The Hidden People" left off. The episode starts after Hilda returns home after Alfur decides to take her to the Elf King to set things right. This is also the second part of the "Welcome to Trolberg" trilogy.
- No Name Given: The Giantess never gets her own name.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: Jorgen, the titular giant that appears outside Hilda's house every night at midnight, and his girlfriend.
- Rule of Symbolism: As Johanna says looks down on her destroyed house, she muses how the giants didn't even realize what they've done... While she obliviously has her foot in the middle of some elf's home. note
- Tempting Fate: When Hilda is telling her mother that they don’t have to move, their house is then just destroyed without repair.
- That's No Moon: The mountain on which the Elf King has built his castle is actually a sleeping giantess.
