* The following samples presumably predate the Lord of the Rings, but they were not explicitly dated: DTS 16, DTS 17, DTS 18 – Elvish Script Sample I, II, III, with parts of the English poems Errantry and Bombadil, first published in the Silmarillion Calendar 1978, later in Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien, as well as DTS 23 – So Lúthien, a page of the English Lay of Leithan text facsimiled in The Lays of Beleriand: 299.

In The Spell of Gróa ( Grógaldr ), the first part of The Lay of Svipdagr ( Svipdagsmál ), the hero Svipdag summons his dead mother, Gróa, to cast spells for him.

* Madison R. Lay ( 1864 – 1930 ), an Ashland native and the father of the educators Orie Lay and Dovie Lillias Lay Dupree, was among the first class of students enrolled in the Louisiana Normal School, located in Natchitoches, in its inaugural year of 1885.

Osterberg was first inspired to form the Stooges after meeting blues drummer Sam Lay during a visit to Chicago.

The band replaced As I Lay Dying on the first five shows of the No Fear Energy Music Tour with Lamb of God.

In April 2011 Tracey opened the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate with Jools Holland and between May and September 2012 she is holding her first exhibition there, entitled " She Lay Down Deep Beneath The Sea ".

Her artistic growth, and the strengthening of its public image follows of equal footstep, also in her solo career: if the first album " Simply Deep " made to shine through a sensuality countersigned by delicate sonority and tapes rich in winking looks, beginning from the second album " Ms. Kelly " ( and more with " Here I Am "), her artist identity consolidates her, and sex appeal becomes explicit and sometimes exhibited ( as for instance in the music videos of Ghetto, Comeback, Motivation and Lay It On Me ).

* Walter Scott used the first two stanzas in the sixth canto of his narrative poem " The Lay of the Last Minstrel " ( 1805 ).

She is best known for her first single " Undo Me " from her debut album Kansas ( 1998 ), and the song " A Little More " from her Grammy Award-nominated album Lay It Down ( 2000 ).

and the metalcore groups Underoath, Demon Hunter, As I Lay Dying, and Norma Jean ( dubbed by Revolver Magazine as " The Holy Alliance ") brought some mainstream attention to the movement in the first decade of the 21st century, achieving ranks in the Billboard 200.

The first Lay Magistrates were appointed in 2005.

* Koh Lay Huan ( died 1826 ), a wealthy and educated man who rebelled against the Manchus and fled to settle in Penang as its first Kapitan China

" Lay Down " became Melanie's first Top Ten hit in America, peaking at Number 6 on the Billboard singles chart and achieving worldwide success.

The company worked with the Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland on the sale of, and ballot for, land and the first body of settlers sailed for what became the settlement of Dunedin in late November 1847.

He first used the technique in The Sound and the Fury, and it gives As I Lay Dying its distinctly intimate tone, through the monologues of the tragically flawed Bundrens and the passers-by they encounter.

Lay Bare the Heart was not the first book Farmer wrote.

It spawned the single " King For A Day ", which peaked at No. 22 in the UK, but reached No. 8 on the US chart Other singles included a new US version of " Lay Your Hands On Me " ( US No. 6 ), the anti-drug song " Don't Mess With Doctor Dream " ( UK No. 15 ) and an unsuccessful cover of The Beatles ' 1968 hit " Revolution " which became the band's first single to fail to make the UK Top 40 in three years.

The first versions of the long lays fit chronologically in with Tolkien's earliest writings, as recounted in The Book of Lost Tales, but the later version of The Lay of Leithian is contemporary with the writing of The Lord of the Rings.

The inscription in Book III reads: " In the first part of this Book is given the Lay of the Children of Húrin by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, in which is set forth in part the Tale of Túrin · in the second part is the Lay of Leithian, which is the quest of Beren and Lúthien as far as the encounter of Beren with Carcharoth at the gate of Angband.

His first scholarly contribution was Textkritische Bemerkungen zu Lay 17, 18, which was published in 1882.

Helped by the driving sound of Pino Palladino's fretless bass in his backing band, his first two singles, " Iron Out the Rough Spots " and a cover of " Love of the Common People ", had no success, but the third, a cover of the Marvin Gaye song " Wherever I Lay My Hat ( That's My Home )", reached No. 1 in the UK singles chart for three weeks in the summer of 1983, the first of 14 British Top 40 singles.

* 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.

The first navy of the Caliph of Córdoba or Emir was built after the humiliating Viking ascent of the Guadalquivir in 844 when they sacked Seville.

The first organized army of Afghanistan ( in the modern sense ) was established after the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1880 when the nation was ruled by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan.

In November 2011, Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced the first legislative election to take place in 2013.

In 2010, the Emir became the first Arab leader to tour South Lebanon and view the various projects it funded following the 2006 Lebanon War.

He was served by men of nationality as dissimilar as the Englishman Thomas Brun, a kaid of the Curia, and, in the fleet, first by Christodulus and then George of Antioch, whom he made in 1132 ammiratus ammiratorum or " Emir of Emirs ", in effect prime vizier.

Abdullah I bin al-Hussein, King of Jordan Allāh ibn al-Husayn ( February 1882 – 20 July 1951 ) ( Arabic ) عبد الله الأول بن الحسين born in Mecca, Hejaz, Ottoman Empire, ( in modern-day Saudi Arabia ) was the second of three sons of Sherif Hussein bin Ali, Sharif and Emir of Mecca and his first wife Abdiyya bint Abdullah ( d. 1886 ).

He was the ruler of Transjordan and its successor state, Jordan, from 1921 to 1951 — first as Emir under a British Mandate from 1921 to 1946, then as King of an independent nation from 1946 until his assassination.

the completion of the first stage of restoration work on the Haram's mosques was celebrated with great pomp, in the presence of representatives from the Muslim countries which had financed the project, the Mandatory authorities, and Abdullah, Emir of Transjordan.

The name of the island is derived from the name of its conqueror Emir Ali, who was one of first Ottoman admirals.

After the fragmentation of the Caliphate of Córdoba, Almería continued to be ruled by powerful local Muslim Taifa emirs like Jairan, the first independent Emir of Almería and Cartagena, and Almotacin, the poet emir.

It is the first time Emir Kusturica directed a film which he did not write.

* in various parts of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate, Southern Nigeria Protectorate and after their joining Nigeria protectorate, notably in Edo state at Benin City ( first to the British-installed ruling council of chiefs, later? to the restored Oba ), with the Emir of and in Bauchi, to the jointly ruling bale and balogun of Ibadan ( a vassal state in Yorubaland ), with the Emir of Illorin, with the Emir of and in Muri ( Nigeria ), with the Emir of Nupe

At some point in the first half of 1922, the Emir of Bukhara broke off relations with him, depriving him of troops and much-needed financial support.

Karamanids captured Konya on two more occasions in the beginning of the 14th century, but were driven out the first time by emir Chupan, the Ilkhanid governor for Anatolia, and the second time by Emir Chupan's son and successor Timurtash.

In William Ewart Gladstone's first government of 1868 to 1874, Argyll became Secretary of State for India, in which role his refusal to promise support against the Russians to the Emir of Afghanistan helped lead to the Second Afghan War.

He founds of Taifa of Granada, and he declares himself as first Emir.

On February 17, 2010, Ilgauskas, along with a 2010 first round pick and the rights to Emir Preldžič, was traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Washington Wizards as part of a three-team, six-player trade that sent Antawn Jamison from Washington to Cleveland, Al Thornton from the Los Angeles Clippers to Washington, Drew Gooden from Washington to Los Angeles, and Sebastian Telfair from Los Angeles to Cleveland.

Amanullah Khan ( Pashto, Persian, Urdu, Arabic: ) ( June 1, 1892 – April 25, 1960 ) was the Sovereign of the Kingdom of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, first as Emir and after 1926 as Malik ( King ).

The first book centres around the arrival in Alexandria of Bey Ashraf al-Mansur, claimed to be the son of the Emir of Tunis.

Four days later, he was traded again, this time to the Los Angeles Clippers as part of a three-team, six-player trade that sent Antawn Jamison from Washington to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, a 2010 first round pick and the rights to Emir Preldžič from the Cleveland to Washington, Al Thornton from Los Angeles to Washington, and Sebastian Telfair from Los Angeles to Cleveland.

On February 17, 2010, Telfair was traded from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Cleveland Cavaliers as part of a three-team, six-player trade that sent Antawn Jamison from the Washington Wizards to Cleveland, Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, a 2010 first round pick and the rights to Emir Preldžič from Cleveland to Washington, Drew Gooden from Washington to Los Angeles, and Al Thornton from Los Angeles to Washington.