Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

Examples would be: Tolkien's Gandalf of The Lord of the Rings, Dumbledore of Harry Potter series, Merlin of Arthurian Legends, Lasky's Ezylryb of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks ' Allanon of The Sword of Shannara, Eddings ' Belgarath and Polgara of The Belgariad, Feist's Macros the Black of the Riftwar Saga, Jordan's Moiraine of The Wheel of Time ( who at least starts out as this kind of character ), Goodkind's Zeddicus Zu ' l Zorander of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Thorn / Angaver, and Paolini's Brom and Oromis of The Inheritance Cycle.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Morgoth of The Silmarillion as well as Sauron, the King of the Nazgûl and the others of the Nine Riders from The Lord of the Rings, Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter series, Lasky's Kludd and Nyra of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks's Warlock Lord of The Sword of Shannara, Jordan's Dark One of The Wheel of Time, and Eddings ' Torak of The Belgariad and Zandramas of The Malloreon, Rick Riordan's Kronos of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Goodkind's Darken Rahl and Emperor Jagang of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Moragon, and Paolini's Galbatorix of The Inheritance Cycle.

2010 also saw the release of Legend of the Guardians ( formerly The Guardians of Ga ' Hoole ), in which Weaving has another high profile voice role, portraying two different owls named Noctus and Grimble in Zack Snyder's film adaptation of Kathryn Lasky's popular series of children's books.

* Nyra is also a character in Kathryn Lasky's Guardians of Ga ' Hoole series.

Already involved with the creation of more than 100 motion picture shorts, Reid was signed by producer Jesse L. Lasky and would star in another sixty plus films for Lasky's Famous Players film company, later Paramount Pictures.

This meant that exhibitors who wanted a particular movie had to buy a bundled package containing movies from all of the companies that signed exclusive rights agreements with Paramount, including Adolph Zukor's Famous Players, the Jesse L. Lasky's Feature Play Company, and others.

In 1925, Crosland was working for Jesse L. Lasky's film production company Famous Players-Lasky ( later Paramount Pictures ) when he was hired by Warner Bros. to work at their Hollywood studios.

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company created on July 19, 1916 from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company — originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays — and Jesse L. Lasky's Feature Play Company.

From there Melford went on to direct another 30 films for Kalem Studios until 1915, when he was hired by Jesse L. Lasky to direct feature-length films for Lasky's Feature Play Company.

Melford remained with Lasky's company for ten years, then joined Universal Pictures, where he directed his first talkie in 1929.

By the early 1920s, Antonio Moreno joined film mogul Jesse Lasky's Famous Players and became one of the company's most highly paid performers.

After several films with Jesse L. Lasky's Famous Players Film Company and smaller independents, Marguerite Courtot took most of 1918 off to use her public persona to tour the country to promote America's World War I effort in Europe.

In addition to the original Broadway and London cast recordings, and the motion picture soundtrack ( no longer available ), there are recordings of the 1990 studio cast, the 1995 Royal National Theatre revival ( starring Judi Dench ), and the 2001 Barcelona cast recording sung in Catalan.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Jones became a director ( or " supervisor ", the original title for an animation director in the studio ) himself in 1938 when Frank Tashlin left the studio.

Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.

On the 40th anniversary of the July 1969 moon landing — and Bowie's accompanying commercial breakthrough with " Space Oddity "— EMI released the individual tracks from the original eight-track studio recording of the song, in a 2009 contest inviting members of the public to create a remix.

After several years of directing primarily lower-key live-action films, Hideaki Anno formed his own production studio and revisited his still-popular Evangelion franchise with the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, a new series of films providing an alternate retelling of the original story.

( Two original Keystone Cops in this movie were Heinie Conklin as an elderly studio Guard ; and Hank Mann as a prop man.

Woody Gelman discovered many of the original strips at a cartoon studio where McCay's son worked in 1966.

The original error is attributed to Leo Novak, a studio artist who illustrated for the Superman dailies during this period.

Mary Pickford ( April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979 ) was a Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The original main building, the first totally enclosed film stage and studio in history, is still there.

As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.

This first studio recording was circulated in two variations: the first, mixed in a dorm room as late as 1985, received a higher distribution than the second studio remix of the original four tracks, circa 1987.

Paul Leka, an East Coast record producer, brought the band to his recording studio in Bridgeport, Connecticut where it recorded original material for its first album.

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

The original Australian serials were shot entirely in the studio.

His playing on the original studio recording of " Layla " imparted a sublime quality for which the song is distinctly memorable.

To Venus and Back, a two-disc release of original studio material and live material recorded from the previous world tour, received mostly positive reviews and included the first major-label single available for sale as a digital download.

Following the release of their only studio album, ( GI ), The Germs recorded six original songs with legendary producer Jack Nitzsche for the soundtrack to the film, Cruising, starring Al Pacino.

At the time of its liquidation, Westwood employed a third of the original Westwood Studios personnel, some of which formed Petroglyph Games in April 2003, along with three of them ( Brett Sperry, Adam Isgreen and Rade Stojsavljevic ) forming Jet Set Games development studio in 2008, both based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

But the closing aircraft showed no sign of deviating from their original course.

However, just as all the buildings have not fallen and flowed back to their original mud, so the values which wanted them and saw that they were built have not all disappeared.

We'll play Bruckner's Fifth Symphony in the original version, and Mahler's Seventh -- the least accessible, known, and played of Mahler's works.

The composer may reverse or invert the order of his original set of intervals ( or rhythms or dynamic changes ).

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

Whatever his original assignment, the fictional private eye ends up by investigating and solving a crime, usually a murder.

For the tone of the editorials which greeted Mr. Eisenhower's original announcement of his running had been strangely disquieting.

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

There is, of course, the doctrine of original sin, which asserts that each of us as individuals partakes of the guilt of our first ancestor.

and the doctrine of original sin is compounded of injustice.

Our students want occupations that permit them to use their talents and training, to be creative and original, to work with and to help other people.

In a real sense they are admittedly conservative, but their conservatism incorporates a traditionalized embodiment of the original `` radicalism '' of 1776.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.

Although the wood has been changed to coal, much of it still retains its original cell structure.

So far this season, Broadway's premieres have included twice as many adaptations and imports as original American stage plays.

The only original works attempting to reach any stature: Tennessee Williams' disappointing domestic comedy, Period Of Adjustment, and Arthur Laurents' clever but empty Invitation To A March.

The only other works at least technically original were dreary farces -- Send Me No Flowers ( closed ), Under The Yum-Yum Tree, Critic's Choice.

Off-Broadway, where production is still comparatively cheap, is proving itself only slightly more original.