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Visitors won’t experience any flashing lights, dancing elves or blaring carols.

Elina, an elf working in Santa's post office, also worries about the future of Lapland's winters: "I'm wondering if heatwaves are now the new normal."

When the topic turns to her bookshelf, Thurman admits she’s become a fan of stories of orcs and elves in love.

He credits living in The Netherlands as the inspiration behind the dolls and told Hypbeast "I liked to read storybooks and was influenced by ancient European elf legends".

"Kids came in, I told them Santa's hat was missing as a naughty elf had stolen it and they needed to raise Christmas spirit and find it," Mrs Miller, of Darlington, said.