Current members and alumni include some of the most accomplished pulp magazine fans and professionals in the world including Al Tonik, Glenn Lord, Howard DeVore, Jerry Page, George Evans, Rusty Hevelin, Scott Cranford, Doug Ellis, Will Murray, Anthony Tolin, Brian Earl Brown, and Curt Phillips.

However, Tolkien frequently disliked the idea that his works were allegorical, saying in the foreword to the 2nd edition of The Lord of the Rings, " But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations ..." and " I think that many confuse ' applicability ' with ' allegory '; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

Gaiman himself has summarized the plot of the series ( in the foreword to Endless Nights ) as " The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision.

Trevor-Roper ; with a foreword by Lord David Cecil ( 1964 )

The paper was authored by Graham Godwin-Pearson with a foreword by Dr Brian May and contributions by leading tuberculosis scientists, including Lord Krebs.

The paper was authored by Graham Godwin-Pearson with a foreword by Dr Brian May and contributions by leading tuberculosis scientists, including Lord Krebs.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

Beatty is reported to have remarked ( to his Flag Captain, Chatfield, later First Sea Lord in the early 1930s ), " there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today ," after two of them had exploded within half an hour during the battle.

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

Malden was discovered on 30 July 1825 by Captain The 7th Lord Byron ( a cousin of the famous poet ).

Captain Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony meets the notorious Captain Lord Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar.

Lord Voldemort also appeared in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London as an inflatable representation of children's literature villains, alongside The Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, and Cruella de Vil.

Unlike Lord Snowdon and Captain Phillips, Sarah has never remarried and still attends some functions with her daughters, such as the investiture of The Duke of York into the Royal Victorian Order, on which occasions she is afforded the courtesy of treatment as a member of the Royal Family, although the Lord Chamberlain's Diamond Jubilee Guidelines mention the Duchess specifically as being a member of the Royal Family in her own right.

After the sailors leave, the Captain confesses to Little Buttercup that Josephine is reluctant to consider a marriage proposal from Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty.

In Britain, the campaign to free Raeder was headed by the historian Captain Basil Liddell Hart and Lord Hankey, both of whom repeatedly charged that the attack on Norway was a " preventive war " forced on Germany, and as such, not only was Raeder innocent, but that Winston Churchill should have been convicted of conspiracy to commit aggression against Norway in place of Raeder.

He is also prone to awarding himself ridiculous titles like Capitan Spavento della Vall ' Inferna ( Italian: " Captain Fear, ( Lord ) of Hell's Valley "), Salvador de los Vírgenes Borrachos ( Spanish: " Savior of Drunken Virgins "), or Sieur de Fracasse et Brise-tout ( French: " Lord of ' Knock it down ' and ' Break everything '").

She sleeps with Lord Byron and gets him, her husband, Captain Brice, and herself essentially kicked out of Sidley Park.

Some years later, whilst travelling back to the Caribbean, the ship on which Arabella and royal emissary Lord Willoughby ( Henry Stephenson ) are travelling is captured by Blood's treacherous partner, Captain Levasseur ( Basil Rathbone ) and the two personages held for ransom.

Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth, Captain Hook was born the illegitimate son of a nobleman, " Lord B ", and an unnamed woman Hook has never met ( however, throughout the story, there are multiple clues in the way characters act and react that the unnamed woman may in fact be the Queen ).

In A. C. Crispin's 2011 novel Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom, Captain Hook is referenced in a conversation between Captain Teague and Pirate Lord Don Rafael.

Alongside other inflatable villains such as Lord Voldemort, the Queen of Hearts, Cruella de Vil and The Child Catcher, Captain Hook made an appearance during the opening ceremony of the XXX Olympiad in London, representing one of the many villains taken from British children's literature.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

There are three founding sires that almost all Thoroughbreds can trace back to: the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin, and the Byerly Turk, named after their respective owners, Thomas Darley, Lord Godolphin, and Captain Robert Byerly.

The screenplay by Coward was inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was in command of the destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete.

He was made Captain General of the royal armed forces south of the River Trent in February and was made Lord Chamberlain in July.

In 1284, Alexander invested the title of Lord of the Isles in the head of the Macdonald family, Angus Macdonald, and over the next two centuries the Macdonald lords operated as if they were kings in their own right, frequently opposing the Scottish monarch.

" I am sore troubled with my Lord of Angus since my last coming into Scotland, and every day more and more, so that we have not been together this half year … I am so minded that, an I may by law of God and to my honour, to part with him, for I wit well he loves me not, as he shows me daily.

Angus and his allies spread the rumour that the two were lovers, to such effect that even the sober-headed Lord Dacre wrote to Wolsey, predicting that James would be murdered and Albany would become king and marry Margaret.

Weary of Scotland she may have been: she was now even more tired of Lord Methven, who was proving himself to be even worse than Angus in his desire both for other women and for his wife's money ; also, their only child, a daughter ( possibly called Dorothea Stewart ), died in infancy.

John Lyon, 6th Lord Glamis, married Janet Douglas, daughter of the Master of Angus, at a time when King James V was feuding with the Douglases.

Former students include Harold Wilson ( who was twice British Prime Minister ), Norman Washington Manley ( Chief Minister of Jamaica ), T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia "), Angus Buchanan ( winner of the Victoria Cross ), and Viscount Sankey ( Lord Chancellor ).

Upon the death of the 10th Earl in 1994, married but childless, the titles passed ( under provision 5 above ) to his nephew, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, second son of the 14th Duke of Hamilton and next brother of Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton, who succeeded as 11th Earl.

When Patrick, Lord Lindsay took up the challenge, Morton gave Lindsay the sword of his ancestor, Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus.

In 1669 Graham's maternal uncle, David Carnegie, Lord Lour, obtained him an appointment as a Commissioner of Excise and Justice of the Peace for Angus.

# That the founder of the clan, Donn ( a ) chadh ( Duncan ) was the second son of Angus MacDonald, Lord of the Isles.

#* Lord Lieutenant of Angus ( Georgiana Osborne )

Lord of Jedburgh Forest was a Lordship of Parliament that was granted to George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus on the occasion of his marriage to the Princess Mary, daughter of Robert III in 1397.

Although Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus ( 1555 – 1588 ) was confirmed as 5th Earl of Morton in 1586, Lord Maxwell's title of Morton, which had been revoked in 1585, was revived in 1587 and 1592.

* Angus Diarmid Ian Campbell-Gray, 22nd Lord Gray ( 1931 – 2003 )

King Haakon IV of Norway ( reigned 1217 – 1263 ) confirmed Donald's son Angus Mor ( the Elder ) Mac Donald ( the first Macdonald ) as Lord of Islay, and the two participated jointly in the Battle of Largs ( 1263 ).

Angus Og's son Good John of Islay first formally assumed the title Dominus Insularum – Lord of the Isles – in 1336.

This continuity has survived to the current era, most notably at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, when the then Lord Abernethy and Angus, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton bore and presented the Crown of Scotland to the Queen at St. Giles ' Cathedral.

* George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus, Lord of Abernethy and Bonkyll ( 1380 – 1403 ), upon his betrothal to Princess Mary, daughter of Robert III of Scotland

James ' son and heir Archibald Douglas was created Duke of Douglas, Marquess of Angus and Abernethy, Viscount of Jedburgh Forest, and Lord Douglas of Bonkill, Prestoun and Robertoun on 10 April 1703.

He was made Lord Lieutenant of Angus, an office he resigned when his daughter became Queen.

The Edinburgh Gazette of 17 November 1896 announces " INTIMATION is hereby given that the Reverend THOMAS ANGUS MORRISON, Minister of the Parish of Kirkintilloch, in the Presbytery of Glasgow and County of Dumbarton, has, under and by virtue of " The Glebe Lands ( Scotland ) Act, 1866 ," presented a ; Petition to the Lords of Council and Session, Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Teinds, for authority to Feu the GLEBE OF KIRKINTILLOCH ; and that an Interlocutor has been pronounced therein in the following terms ...." After depositing £ 400 with the " Lord of the Manor " or " Patron " T Angus Morrison becomes Minister of St Mary's.

Lord Airlie has also served as the Lord Lieutenant of Angus in Scotland, and as the Captain General of The Royal Company of Archers and Gold Stick for Scotland.

To this effect, the Abbot of Paisley, John Hamilton planned to meet Lord Somerville and the Earl of Angus on 28 October 1545, to gain their support for the Hamilton marriage.