In the fiction book The Lord of the Rings, a series of beacons connects Gondor to Rhohan.

* Bill the Pony, a pony appearing in The Lord of the Rings novel

Tom Shippey in The Road to Middle-earth says how “ Boethian ” much of the treatment of evil is in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

It was used to animate the face of Gollum in the movie Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Such ABS mail coats were made for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, in addition to many metal coats.

A smaller-scale cavalry charge can be seen in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ); although the finished scene has substantial computer-generated imagery, raw footage and reactions of the riders are shown in the Extended Version DVD Appendices.

In The Hobbit, the Anglo-Saxon futhorc was used in the publication with few changes ; in The Lord of the Rings a new system of runes, the Cirth, was devised.

Some examples of Cirth writings are the inscription on Balin's tomb in Moria and the inscriptions on the top of the title pages for The Lord of the Rings.

Three modes for Cirth are described in detail in Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings, and others are known to exist or have been developed by enthusiasts.

Gygax maintained that he was influenced very little by The Lord of the Rings, stating that he included these elements as a marketing move to draw on the popularity of the work.

The Nynorsk translation of The Lord of the Rings used the term for both ring-wraiths and the dead men of Dunharrow.

An example is Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Then Wollheim changed everything when he brought out an unauthorized paperback edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in three volumes — the first mass-market paperback edition of Tolkien's epic.

He called Professor Tolkien in 1964 and asked if he could publish Lord of the Rings as Ace paperbacks.

Tolkien said he would never allow Lord of the Rings, his great work, to appear in ' so degenerate a form ’ as the paperback book.

Eventually, he supported paperback editions of The Lord of the Rings and several of his other texts, but it is difficult to say whether he was persuaded to do so by the manifest economic wisdom evident in sales of the Ace editions.

This technique was used by, among many others, Billy Boyd and Viggo Mortensen in The Lord of the Rings.

In 2001 Enya recorded " May It Be ", which was featured in the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring, and was her second consecutive single to enter the German charts at number one.

It includes most of her hits from 1988 to 2008 including a new version of " Aníron ", a song created for " The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring " in 2001.

Enya has performed several songs relating to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's " Lothlórien " ( instrumental ), and 2001's " May It Be " ( sung in English and Quenya ), and " Aníron " ( in Sindarin )— the latter two, which she composed, appearing in Peter Jackson's movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and its soundtrack album.

Jacob Grimm in his Deutsches Wörterbuch deplored the " unhochdeutsch " form Elf, borrowed " unthinkingly " from the English, and Tolkien was inspired by Grimm to recommend reviving the genuinely German form in his Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings ( 1967 ) and Elb, Elben was consequently reintroduced in the 1972 German translation of The Lord of the Rings.

Four of the top seven highest-grossing films worldwide of all time have some British historical, cultural or creative dimensions: Titanic, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

* Oscar winners: Gladiator ( 2000 ), A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ), Chicago ( 2002 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ), Crash ( 2005 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ), Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), The Hurt Locker ( 2009 )

* The 20 highest-grossing films of the decade are ( in order from highest to lowest grossing ): Avatar, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Spider-Man 3, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Finding Nemo, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Shrek the Third.

In Peter Jackson's films The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ) Bilbo is played by Ian Holm, who had played Frodo in the BBC radio series 20 years earlier.

He appears in the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings ( The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers ), and is mentioned in the last volume, The Return of the King.

The third volume of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, is concerned with the events in Gondor during the War of the Ring and with the following restoration of the realm.

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win in this category, for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

In 1959, Wyler directed Ben-Hur, which won 11 Oscars ( a feat equalled only by Titanic in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003 ).

In the Peter Jackson movies The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 ) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Sam was played by Sean Astin.

As a consequence of eliminating the Battle of Bywater, Saruman is killed by Wormtongue much earlier ( at the beginning of the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ) and the palantír of Orthanc is transferred to Gandalf by means of Pippin retrieving it from Saruman's corpse instead of Wormtongue throwing it from the tower window.

Aragorn also reveals himself to Sauron after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in the extended version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

The Return of the King was in the end published as the third and final part of The Lord of the Rings, on October 20, 1955.

Auden praised The Return of the King and found The Lord of the Rings a " masterpiece of the genre ".

* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003 Academy Award winning theatrical film directed by Peter Jackson.

* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Tolkien's Gwaihir was recreated digitally in the Academy Award-winning film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

* 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King-Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

Astin's daughter, Alexandra, can be seen in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

The original editor of The Hobbit " corrected " Tolkien's plural dwarves to dwarfs, as did the Puffin paperbound edition of The Lord of the Rings.

Jim Hacker, Lord Hacker of Islington KG PC BSc ( Paul Eddington ) was the editor of a newspaper, Reform, before entering government.

* Lt. Col. Robert Eden ( 1836 – 1907 ), a grandson of the 1st Lord Henley, fought in the American Civil War with the 37th Wisconsin Volunteers, was editor of the Northwestern newspaper, and became senior engineer with the Edison Light Co.

* The Abdication of King Edward VIII by Lord Beaverbrook, ( editor ) 1966.

In 1929, a lay Catholic, Martin Quigley, editor of the Motion Picture Herald, a prominent trade paper, and Jesuit priest Father Daniel A. Lord, created a code of standards ( which Hays liked immensely ), and submitted it to the studios.

* Balfour Paul, Sir James, Lord Lyon King of Arms, editor, The Scots Peerage, Edinburgh, 1905, under ' Lauderdale '.

The general editor was Lord Simonds.

According to Hugh Chisholm, editor of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica: " Lord Acton has left too little completed original work to rank among the great historians ; his very learning seems to have stood in his way ; he knew too much and his literary conscience was too acute for him to write easily, and his copiousness of information overloads his literary style.

Lord Hervey published an attack on the Craftsman, and Pulteney, either openly or behind the person of Amhurst, its editor, replied to the attack.

A noted beauty ( an admirer, Lord d ' Abernon, said that there was " more of the panther than of the woman in her look " ) Jennie Jerome worked as a magazine editor in early life.

" Archbishop Manning in the chair was flanked by two Protestant bishops right and left ; on my right was Hutton, editor of the Spectator, an Arian ; then came Father Dalgairns, a very able Roman Catholic priest ; opposite him Lord A. Russell, a Deist ; then two Scotch metaphysical writers, Freethinkers ; then Knowles, the very broad editor of the Contemporary ; then, dressed as a layman and looking like a country squire, was Ward, formerly Rev.

He left the BUF in 1938, disillusioned, but continued to be active in far-right politics by joining the Nordic League and serving as editor of Lord Lymington's right-wing journal, the New Pioneer.

He was also, from 1874 to 1896, editor of a religious periodical, The Sunday Magazine, in which he published several of his own hymns, among which is " Now let us see thy beauty, Lord ", which has appeared in several editions of the Methodist Hymn Book, in Congregational Praise and in the Australian Hymnbook, though not in its successor, Sing Alleluia.

In 2009, the approximately fifty employees of the Sword of the Lord Foundation included editor Shelton Smith ; his son, Marlon, executive vice president ; and Shelton Smith's son-in-law, Guy King, vice president of publishing.

John Richard Rice ( December 11, 1895-December 29, 1980 ) was a Baptist evangelist and pastor and the founding editor of The Sword of the Lord, an influential fundamentalist newspaper.

On Langdon Bonython's retirement, his son Sir John Lavington Bonython, also Mayor and later Lord Mayor of Adelaide, became editor.

For several months in 1929, Martin Quigley, Joseph Breen, Father Daniel A. Lord S. J., Father FitzGeorge Dinneen S. J., and Father Wilfred Parsons ( editor of Catholic publication America ) discussed the desirability of a new and more stringent code of behavior for the movies.

In 1911, Astor was approached by J. L. Garvin, the editor of The Observer, about purchasing the newspaper from its owner, the press baron Lord Northcliffe.

Gordon Creighton, editor of the magazine Flying Saucer Review, alleged the information was given to Kilgallen by Lord Mountbatten of Burma at a cocktail party, but attempts to verify this were unsuccessful.

Broadus writes that the choice of Austin for poet-laureate had much to do with Austin's friendship with Lord Salisbury, his position as an editor and leader writer, and his willingness to use his poetry to support the government.

Her stepfather is Sir Nicholas Lloyd, former editor of the Daily Express, and her half-sister, from her father's second marriage, to children's author Cindy Black, is actress Sophie Winkleman, wife of Lord Frederick Windsor.

* RHS Plant Finder 2008 – 2009, Tony Lord ( editor ), Dorling Kindersley ( 2008 ) ISBN 978-1-4053-3190-6

Kelly was a journalist in the pay of Lord North, and therefore hated by the supporters of the radical journalist and politician John Wilkes, especially as being the editor of The Public Ledger.

John Bryant was never officially editor of the Daily Telegraph, a much-coveted office previously held by the likes of Lord Deedes and Max Hastings.