In his book The Lost Ark of the Covenant ( 2008 ), Parfitt also suggests that the Ark was taken to Arabia following the events depicted in the Second Book of Maccabees, and cites Arabic sources which maintain it was brought in distant times to Yemen.

Mentions in the Lost Book of Zhou ( Yizhoushu ) and the Shanhaijing indicate the Donghu were also active during the Shang dynasty ( 1600-1046 BC ).

* J. R. R. Tolkien begins writing The Book of Lost Tales ( the first version of The Silmarillion ); thus Middle-earth is first chronicled this year.

The title of the series, His Dark Materials, comes from seventeenth century poet John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 2:

Loud and J. W. Cox, " The ' Lost ' Autobiographical Chapter of William of Tyre's Chronicle ( Book XIX. 12 ).

Lost Horizon subsequently became a huge popular success and in 1939 was published in paperback form, as Pocket Book # 1.

* In John Milton's Paradise Lost ( Book 1 ), Satan is hurled " to bottomless perdition, there to dwell in adamantine chains and penal fire ".

In The Book of Lost Tales the very few Dwarves who appear are portrayed as evil beings, employers of Orc mercenaries and in conflict with the Elves — who are the imagined ' authors ' of the myths, and are therefore biased against Dwarves.

The most Dwarf-centric story from The Book of Lost Tales, " The Nauglafring ", was not redrafted to fit with the later positive portrayal of the dwarves from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, nor other events in the Silmarillion, leading Christopher Tolkien significantly to rewrite it with input from Guy Gavriel Kay in preparation for publication.

There is a poem by Tolkien dated to 1914 entitled " The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star " ( published in The Book of Lost Tales 2 267 – 269 ).

Although sequential descriptions of the Valar can be found in The Book of Lost Tales ( first begun as far back as 1916-7, but published in 1983 as volume 1 of The History of Middle-earth ), the earliest Valar-list that can be measured against Valaquenta is found in the text called Quenta Noldorinwa ( probably written in 1930, but first published in 1986 as part of The Shaping of Middle-earth, volume 4 of The History of Middle-earth ).

The Book of Lost Tales – Vol 1, “ One was very great and deep and beautiful, but it was mingled with an unquenchable sorrow, while the other was now grown to unity and a system of its own, but was loud and vain and arrogant, braying triumphantly against the other as it thought to drown it, yet ever, as it essayed to clash most fearsomely, finding itself but in some manner supplementing or harmonizing with its rival .” p 54. also compare The Lost Road and Other Writings | The Lost Road “ The other had grown now to a unity and system, yet an imperfect one, save insofar as derived still from the eldest theme of Ilúvatar …” p 158.

In The Book of Lost Tales Nienna was named Fui or Qalmë-Tári and was married to Vefántur ( Mandos ), to whom she was not related in that context.

Dragons are already present in The Book of Lost Tales, the earliest Middle-earth-related narratives written by Tolkien, starting in 1917.

The Book of Lost Tales was eventually posthumously published in two volumes as part of The History of Middle-earth series, which was edited and includes commentary by his son Christopher.

Beleriand also appears in the works The Book of Lost Tales, The Children of Húrin, and in the epic poems of The Lays of Beleriand.

* John Milton, " Paradise Lost ", Book I

* John Milton, " Paradise Lost ", Book I

In the invocation to Book 7 of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, the poet invokes Urania to aid his narration of the creation of the cosmos, though he cautions that it is " he meaning, not the name I call " ( 7. 5 ).

Astraea is also referenced in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, in Book IV between lines 990 and 1000.

This will be recounted in Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Hero.

* Amphigorey Too, 1975 ( ISBN 0-399-50420-6 ) — contains The Beastly Baby, The Nursery Frieze, The Pious Infant, The Evil Garden, The Inanimate Tragedy, The Gilded Bat, The Iron Tonic, The Osbick Bird, The Chinese Obelisks ( bis ), The Deranged Cousins, The Eleventh Episode, Untitled Book, The Lavender Leotard, The Disrespectful Summons, The Abandoned Sock, The Lost Lions, Story for Sara Alphonse Allais, The Salt Herring Charles Cros, Leaves from a Mislaid Album, and A Limerick

In John Milton's epic Paradise Lost it is given a more fitting neighbour:

* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.

* 1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £ 10.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis's ideas: John Wallace Spencer ( Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr.

* Limbo Of The Lost, John Wallace Spencer ( ISBN 0-686-10658-X )

The red-headed Mumy came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, most notably as Will Robinson, the youngest of the three children of Prof. John and Dr. Maureen Robinson ( played by Guy Williams and June Lockhart respectively ) and friend of the nefarious and pompous Dr. Zachary Smith ( played by Jonathan Harris ), in the 1960s CBS sci-fi television series Lost in Space.

Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the " critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday's trash.

An example is John Milton's Paradise Lost, an " epic elaboration of the Judeo-Christian mythology " and also a " veritable encyclopedia of myths from the Greek and Roman tradition ".

John Mark Byers, the adoptive father of victim Christopher Byers, gave a knife to cameraman Doug Cooper, who was working with documentary makers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky while they were filming the first Paradise Lost feature.

John Mark Byers agreed to, and subsequently passed, a polygraph test during the filming of Paradise Lost 2: Revelations in regard to the murders, but the documentary indicated that Byers was under the influence of several psychoactive prescription medications that could have affected the test results.

** Paradise Lost by John Milton ( 1667 )

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

The two most famous descriptions of Heaven are given in Dante Alighieri's Pardiso ( of the Divine Comedy ) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Examples of hubris are often found in fiction, most famously in Paradise Lost, John Milton's depiction of the biblical Lucifer.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of short stories that are often read as a postmodernist Künstlerroman.

William Blake's illustration of Lucifer as presented in John Milton's Paradise Lost

As a result, " Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan in the Church and in popular literature ", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

He received his first two Oscar nominations for John Ford's 1934 film The Lost Patrol, and the same year for The Gay Divorcee.

* Iambic pentameter ( John Milton in Paradise Lost, William Shakespeare in his Sonnets )

The Romantics drew comparisons between Prometheus and the spirit of the French Revolution, Christ, the Satan of John Milton's Paradise Lost, and the divinely inspired poet or artist.

John Milton wrote Samson Agonistes as verse drama, and indeed had at an early stage contemplated writing Paradise Lost in that form.

The poet John Milton, aware of the association of Proteus with the Hermetic art of alchemy, wrote in Paradise Lost of alchemists who sought the philosopher's stone: