He is one of the Istari or Wizards who were sent by the angelic Valar to aid the Elves and Men of Middle-earth in their struggle against the Dark Lord Sauron.

* The history of Dark Men of Middle-earth

: They are proud and wilful, but they are true-hearted, generous in thought and deed ; bold but not cruel ; wise but unlearned, writing no books but singing many songs, after the manner of the children of Men before the Dark Years.

After the downfall of the Dark Lord Morgoth at the end of the First Age ( which is described in the Quenta Silmarillion ) the Edain, those Men who had aided the Elves in their war against Melkor were given Númenor, a new small continent of their own, free from the evil and sadness of Middle-earth.

During the Third Age, recognizing that an outright confrontation with Sauron ( Melkor's beloved Maia ) would be disastrous, the Valar sent the Istari to Middle-earth with the intent of giving counsel to Men in their resistance to the growing power of the Dark Lord.

* The Wild Hunt appears frequently in modern fantasy fiction, as in Alan Garner ( in The Moon of Gomrath ), Peter Beagle ( in Tamsin ), Penelope Lively in The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy, Uladzimir Karatkievich ( in The Wild Hunt of King Stakh ), Susan Cooper in The Dark is Rising, Guy Gavriel Kay's trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry, Raymond E. Feist's ' Faerie Tale ', Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ( as the Dead Men of Dunharrow ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( Novel Child of the Hunt ), Andrzej Sapkowski's Geralt of Rivia cicle and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, among many others.

; Men in Dark Times

Her collection of essays Men in Dark Times presents intellectual biographies of some creative and moral figures of the 20th century, such as Walter Benjamin, Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Hermann Broch, Pope John XXIII, and Isak Dinesen.

Under the seemingly benevolent guidance and instruction of the unexpected Vanya visitor " Annatar ", the " Lord of Gifts ", of the fairest race of elves, who claimed he had been sent by the Valar to share his wisdom and skills in ring and jewel making for the benefit of all Middle-earth but who was in fact the Dark Lord Sauron in fair disguise, Celebrimbor led the smiths of Eregion into making sixteen Great rings for the peoples of Middle-earth — seven to the Dwarven lords and nine to Men.

Historical novels ( Gone with the Wind ), contemporary affairs ( Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Of Mice and Men ), love stories, classic novels ( Wuthering Heights ), a fantasy-musical ( The Wizard of Oz ), a tragedy ( Dark Victory ), a story of the Old West ( Stagecoach ), and a comedy ( Ninotchka ).

" Future noir films such as Blade Runner, Twelve Monkeys, Dark City, and Children of Men use a protagonist who is "... increasingly dubious, alienated and fragmented ", at once " dark and playful like the characters in Gibson ’ s Neuromancer ", yet still with the "... shadow of Philip Marlowe ..."

* The term can-toi ( that is, ' children of the desert ') is used in the Dark Tower series to describe the Low Men in Yellow Coats, which are strange animal-human hybrids.

Sutherland has appeared in more than 70 films, most notably Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, A Few Good Men, Flatliners, Young Guns, The Vanishing, The Three Musketeers, Eye for an Eye, Dark City, A Time To Kill, and The Sentinel.

Rhûn was the domain of the Easterlings, Men of Darkness who were ready to follow both the Dark Lords and fought as their allies in war.

* Three Men in the Dark ( after Max Brand )

Impressed with the script, Home asked Davies to write the second episode, and when Tony Robinson decided to take a break from producing Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, a slot opened up in the Children's BBC schedules for late 1991 and Home decided to use Dark Season to fill it, commissioning Davies to write the remaining episodes of the serial.

Manning's remaining adaptations, not reprinted by Dark Horse, were " Tarzan and the Golden Lion " Tarzan and the Ant Men and Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle.

Several of King's other stories, most notably Low Men in Yellow Coats and The Dark Tower, feature malevolent creatures called Can-toi, which bear a strong resemblance to the ' batmen ' of ' The Ten O ' Clock People '.

The Next Men saw their official debut in a four-part storyline in Dark Horse Presents # 54-57 ( later reprinted, in color, as John Byrne's Next Men # 0 ).

As Shadow, she wears a mask to hide her " ugliness " and transforms ordinary citizens into Dark Men, misshapen cloaked minions with weaker versions of her own powers.

After she was defeated and unmasked by Freedom Force, the Dark Men swarmed over Shadow and pummelled her in a rage over her beauty.

* " Dancing Men ", Glen Hirshberg ( The Dark, edited by Ellen Datlow, Tor )

* Ceremonies in Dark Old Men ( 1975 ) ( TV ) .... Adele

Christopher left the New York stage for Hollywood to attempt to gain work in television, where he guest-starred in several well-known series, including: The Andy Griffith Show ( he portrayed a new, young doctor scheduling Opie Taylor for a tonsillectomy ) and also as an IRS agent who came to collect taxes due from Aunt Bee ( who had won some prizes on a TV show ), Death Valley Days, The Patty Duke Show, The Men from Shiloh and Good Times ( he portrayed the military doctor examining J. J. Evans ).

* The New York Times, April 15, 1957, " 12 Angry Men ", review by A. H. Weiler

However in a September 15, 2011 article of the New York Times, Sorkin was quoted saying, “ The character of Dan Kaffee in ‘ A Few Good Men ’ is entirely fictional and was not inspired by any particular individual .”

Philadelphia Daily News described Culture Club as a hot new rock act, while William K Knoedelseder Jr from Los Angeles Times said about the group, " Boy George of Culture Club, a rock group MTV helped make popular ", adding that, " There's some debate in the record industry about MTV's ability to directly increase record sales across the board but there's no doubt that the channel has been responsible for exposing such rock artists as Def Leppard, Duran Duran and Men at Work to a national audience ...".

* Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury-Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times ( aka " Shaftesbury's Characteristics ")

Two national UK newspapers ran features on love-shyness in 2009 ; The Sunday Times ran one under the headline, " Love Shyness: the ' Condition ' Crippling Men ", and the Daily Express ran one entitled " The Hopeless Romantic ".

The New York Times television critic earlier had echoed the same sentiment in his review of Mad Men.

The unadulterated 1972 Italian edition of Men Among the Ruins ends with an appendix entitled " Appendix on the Myths of our Time ," of which number 4 is " Taboos of our Times " ( Gli uomini e le rovine, Rome, 1953, revised 1967, with the new appendix, 1972 ).

Robert Bly ( born December 23, 1926 ) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement, most famous for his Iron John: A Book About Men ( 1990 ), which spent 62 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list.

Her work includes articles for magazines and newspapers around the world ( e. g., Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Independent ( UK ), The Irish Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The LA Times, La Jornada ( Mexico ), The Review of the International Red Cross, Columbia University ’ s Journal of Politics and Society ) and chapters to numerous books ( e. g., This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman book is the result of the “ This I Believe ” series on National Public Radio ; The Satanic Bible By Caesar 999 ; A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer, edited by Eve Ensler ; Lessons from our Fathers, by Keith McDermott ; Girls Like Us: 40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry and Song, by Gina Misiroglu ; The Way We Will be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World ’ s Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century, edited by Mike Wallace ).

The Glory of Their Times: The Story Of The Early Days Of Baseball Told By The Men Who Played It is a book, edited by Lawrence Ritter, telling the stories of early 20th century baseball.

Coren's other books include The Dog It Was That Died ( 1965 ), The Sanity Inspector ( 1974 ), All Except The Bastard ( 1978 ), The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions ( 1978 ), Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz ( 1979 ), Tissues for Men ( 1981 ), Bumf ( 1984 ), Seems Like Old Times: a Year in the Life of Alan Coren ( 1989 ), More Like Old Times ( 1990 ), A Year in Cricklewood ( 1991 ), Toujours Cricklewood?

Guards !, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, Interesting Times, Soul Music, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, The Last Hero, Going Postal, Thud !, Making Money and Unseen Academicals.

Guards !, Men at Arms and Interesting Times )

In his revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire portrays a very different version of the Land of Oz.

In 1711, the Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times appeared in three volumes, also without any name or initials on the title-page, and without even the name of a printer.

A review by New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins of Jon Krakauer's book Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman noted that the book did well to compile the facts and " nauseating " details regarding the cover-up of Tillman's death.

* Goodrich, Samuel G. Famous Men of Modern Times.

( 2006 ), The Washington Times, “ Men hold key to their wives ’ calm ”, A10.

It was discontinued and replaced by Men and Women, which was further replaced by the current supplement Times Life.