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.

Two days after Bloody Sunday, the Westminster Parliament adopted a resolution for a tribunal into the events of the day, resulting in Prime Minister Edward Heath commissioning the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery to undertake it.

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

As the scion of the leading mercantile dynasty of later centuries, Mercers, Becket was very much regarded as a Londoner by the citizens and was adopted as the London's co-patron saint with St Paul: both their images appeared on the seals of the city and of the Lord Mayor.

This was adopted by the government but there was a public storm when the Conservatives, with covert support from the First Sea Lord Admiral Jackie Fisher, campaigned for more with the slogan " We want eight and we won't wait ".

Monophysitism was condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 ( the " Fourth Ecumenical Council "), which among other things adopted the Definition of Chalcedon ( often known as the " Chalcedonian Creed ") stating that Christ is the eternal Son of God " made known in two natures without confusion mixture, without change, without division, without separation, the difference of the natures being by no means removed because of the union, but the property of each nature being preserved and coalescing in one prosopon and one hupostasis -- not parted or divided into two prosopa, but one and the same Son, only-begotten, divine Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The story as given in puranas says, Lord Brahma had manasaputra ( sons born out of mind or adopted son ) Kashyap, he had son Atri and Atri ( Rishi ) had a son, Soma.

This course was adopted, even though the King's army had to be weakened by leaving a detachment ( including 3, 000 cavalry ) under Lord Goring, the Lieutenant General of Horse, to hold the West Country and maintain the Siege of Taunton, in Somerset.

In 1900 during the Second Boer War, by a proclamation issued at Pretoria ( June 19 ), Lord Roberts adopted the plan for a similar reason, but shortly afterwards ( July 29 ) it was abandoned ( see The Times History of the War in S. Africa, iv.

Palmerston forced the measure through in part by declaring in a letter to the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, that he would resign from the ministry if his policy were not adopted.

Lord Kitchener applied scorched earth policy during the later part of the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) when the Boers, not conforming to classic military defeat when the their two capital cities where captured, but never on the battlefield, adopted the first modern form of what we know today as guerrilla warfare, in order to rid their republics of the British.

Its first director general, Lord Reith introduced many of the concepts that would later define PSB in the UK when he adopted the mission to " inform, educate and entertain ".

In 1834 he was raised to the bench, and on taking his seat as a Judge in the Court of Session he adopted the title of Lord Cockburn as a Scottish Law Lord of Session.

Keyes impressed First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill by the daring of his plan, which was adopted but not without changes.

Court lady: Empress Dowager Shomeimon-in ( 承明門院 ) Minamoto no Zaishi / Ariko ( 源在子 ) ( 1171 – 1257 ), adopted daughter of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Minamoto no Michichika ( 内大臣源通親 ) ( daughter of priest Nōen, 能円 )

Because Damodar Rao was adopted, the British East India Company, under Governor-General Lord Dalhousie, applied the Doctrine of Lapse, rejecting Damodar Rao's claim to the throne and annexing the state to its territories.

Ironically, in 1782 the war began to turn in Britain's favour again, through naval victories, owing largely to policies adopted by Lord North and the Earl of Sandwich.

The current name of Raglan was adopted in 1858 in honour of Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, who was the commander of British forces in the Crimean War at the time.

An " adopted " ( actually natural ) daughter, Stephanie Caroline Anne Syms, called Pamela, had been married to Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Tournai in the preceding 27 December.

MCC is generally understood to have been founded in 1787 when Thomas Lord opened the ground he bought on the site now occupied by Dorset Square which the club adopted as its home venue.

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?

His literary executor, and for all intents and purposes his heir, was his private secretary, Lord Rowton.

Abbadie's income as dean of Killaloe was so small that he could not afford a literary amanuensis ; and Hugh Boulter, archbishop of Armagh, having appealed in vain to Lord Carteret, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on Abbadie's behalf, gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, and Abbadie left Ireland.

However, Sayers ' first reference to Le Fanu appears in an earlier Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Nine Tailors ( 1934 ), where he is quoted directly ( from Wylder's Hand, in the opening to the seventh " part " of Chapter II and again in the opening to the second " part " of Chapter III ) and a mysterious letter is referred to ( first by Wimsey's valet, Mervyn Bunter ) as " written by a person of no inconsiderable literary ability, who had studied the works of Sheridan Lefanu and was, if I may be permitted the expression, bats in the belfry, my lord.

It reviews his own literary career and includes the famous portraits of Lord Hervey (" Sporus ") and Addison (" Atticus ").

In 1659, the royalist Anglican theologian ( later Bishop of Rochester ) Thomas Sprat made his witty and literary reputation with his satirical poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, clearly mocking Cromwell's legal status.

They appear in his books The Hobbit ( 1937 ), The Lord of the Rings ( 1954 – 55 ), and the posthumously published The Silmarillion ( 1977 ), Unfinished Tales ( 1980 ), and The History of Middle-earth series ( 1983 – 96 ), the last three edited by his son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Influenced by such literary works as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies, it describes the adventures of a young Englishman in search of and on a legendary, idyllic beach untouched by tourism.

The literary vampire first appeared in 18th century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori's The Vampyre ( 1819 ), which was inspired by the life and legend of Lord Byron.

Lord reacted to Kirk's and Parry's essays with " Homer as Oral Poet ", published in 1968, which reaffirmed Lord's belief in the relevance of Yugoslav poetry and its similarities to Homer and downplayed the intellectual and literary role of the reciters of Homeric epic.

Referring to more recent events, Edward Chaney suggested that Pandosto ( and therefore Winter's Tale ) at least echoed the Earl of Oxford's suspicions about the paternity of his daughter ( grand-daughter of Lord Burghley ) and that a Sicilian connection ( which is at least a literary one ) would have rendered a conscious echo more likely.

After the publication of his first book about the American Civil War, Lord's literary agent suggested that he write about the Titanic since he knew Lord had researched the subject for his amusement.

* Memoirs of Lord Byron-destroyed by his literary executors led by John Murray on 17 May 1824.

After the fall of Melbourne's government in 1841 Macaulay devoted more time to literary work, but returned to office as Paymaster-General in 1846 in Lord John Russell's administration.

The town also has strong literary associations, as Geoffrey of Monmouth makes Caerleon one of the most important cities in Britain in his Historia Regum Britanniæ, and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote Idylls of the King while staying there.

Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn ( ; Cockpen, Midlothian, 26 October 1779 – Bonaly, Midlothian, 26 April / 18 July 1854 ) was a Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure.

The extent of Cockburn's literary ability only became known after he had passed his seventieth year, on the publication of his biography of lifelong friend Lord Jeffrey in 1852, and from his chief literary work, the Memorials of his Time, which appeared posthumously in 1856.

Hordern had already starred as another great literary wizard, Tolkien's Gandalf, in the BBC's 1981 radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.

A familiar modern literary quest is Frodo Baggins's quest to destroy the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings.

The MacCarthys ' daughter Rachel married the literary historian Lord David Cecil ; their son was the actor Jonathan Cecil.