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.

Rings can fuse with other rings on an edge to give polycyclic compounds.

Rings can also fuse on a " corner " such that one atom ( almost always carbon ) has two bonds going to one ring and two to another.

Other examples of storytelling voice-overs can be heard in Annie Hall, Gattaca, Fight Club, Megamind, Ratatouille, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Tangled, The Magic School Bus, The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk's New Groove, Blade Runner, The Rugrats Movie, The Shawshank Redemption, Big Fish, How to Train Your Dragon, Moulin Rouge !, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Young Winston, Rugrats, Raising Arizona, Goodfellas, Clash of the Titans, and Star Quest: The Odyssey.

Rings, for example, can be viewed as abelian groups ( corresponding to addition ) together with a second operation ( corresponding to multiplication ).

Rings in which every chain of prime ideals can be extended to a maximal chain are known as catenary rings.

The physical nature of Gondor is most prominently illustrated by the maps for The Lord of the Rings and Unfinished Tales made by Christopher Tolkien on the basis of his father's sketches, and can be supplemented by several geographical accounts such as The Rivers and Beacon-Hills of Gondor and Cirion and Eorl.

In The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Gríma Wormtongue is a hero for the Isengard faction, and can weaken, assassinate, and convert enemy units.

Under the old Ring policy, there were only two ways that a boxer can win The Rings title: defeat the reigning champion ; or win a box-off between the magazine's number-one and number-two rated contenders ( or, sometimes, number-one and number-three rated ).

Additionally, all Power Rings, not just the ring assigned to the interim Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, now work on the color yellow, provided the user can feel the fear behind the color and overcome it.

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

Tolkien's description of the physical layout of the city of Minas Tirith itself is followed relatively faithfully in Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, ( the city also has a cameo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, when Gandalf goes there to discern the identity of Bilbo's ring, and it also can be seen in the distance for a few seconds when Faramir takes Frodo, Sam, and Gollum to Osgiliath in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ) Jackson's version interprets the top of the rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of Aragorn.

In Lord of the Rings: Conquest video game, players in the evil campaign can destroy the city.

I got a big chance to do some real acting in The Postman Always Rings Twice, and I'm not going to slip back if I can help it.

Other games like Eve Online and The Lord of the Rings Online try to balance leveling so that casual gamers can play along with those dedicating more hours to the game.

The scale of the battles required for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy led to the creation of MASSIVE, a program which can animate huge numbers of agents: independent characters acting according to pre-set rules.

A third example can be found in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in a footnote in Appendix A.

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the Nazgûl can be seen exiting from Minas Morgul as they ride towards the Shire to pursue the One Ring.

This was implied in New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, and can be seen in the real-time strategy games The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II.

Rings can be traded by this password system or randomly created by connecting two games with a Game Link Cable.

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.

While The Hobbit has been adapted and elaborated upon in many ways, its sequel The Lord of the Rings is often claimed to be its greatest legacy.

Rings or bands provide long-lasting identification but require capture for the information on them to be read.

The series ' creators feel that " Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest should be treated as ' classic ' characters like Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman, Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings or even Hamlet, Othello or Romeo.

But the decision to use Old Norse names came to have far-reaching consequences in the composition of The Lord of the Rings ; in 1942, Tolkien decided that the work was to be a purported translation from the fictional language of Westron, and in the English translation Old Norse names were taken to represent names in the language of Dale.

Throughout the early drafts, and through to the first edition of The Hobbit Bladorthin / Gandalf is described as being a " little old man ", distinct from a dwarf, but not of the full human stature that would later be described in The Lord of the Rings.

Ian McKellen has received widespread acclaim for his performance as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, particularly in The Fellowship of the Ring, for which he received both a Screen Actors Guild Award and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as an Academy Award nomination under the same category ( making him the only individual cast member of the films to be nominated for an Oscar ).

But, of course, such a work as The Lord of the Rings has been edited and only as much ‘ language ’ has been left in as I thought would be stomached by readers.

The fan-series ' creators feel " Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the rest should be treated as ' classic ' characters like Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman, Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, or even Hamlet, Othello, or Romeo.

Rings that are not Noetherian tend to be ( in some sense ) very large.

In the narrative of The Lord of the Rings, the westward target of the road appears as Min-Rimmon, but elsewhere it is stated that the valley ended at Nardol, where the quarries were located, and Christopher Tolkien showed that the former statement may be erroneous.

Tolkien claimed to be genuinely surprised when, in March 1956, he received a letter from one Sam Gamgee, who had heard that his name was in The Lord of the Rings but had not read the book.

In Decipher Inc .' s The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game ( 2001 ), based on the Jackson films, Dwarven player-characters get bonuses to Vitality and Strength attributes and must be given craft skills.

), the Kings of Gondor made close alliances with the Northmen of Rhovanion, a people said in The Lord of the Rings to be akin to the Three Houses of Men ( later the Dúnedain ) from the First Age.

Sauron's plan fails, however: the Elves discover his plot and discard their Rings until they could be shielded from his influence.

In the musical version of The Lord of the Rings, the character of Gildor is female and given the name Elránien ( one of two Elven-lords to be made female for the production, Glorfindel being the other ).

* In a comparison with the later literature, The Lord of the Rings ( 1954-1955 ) by J. R. R. Tolkien, the character Gollum, as well as Smaug, could be seen to have been inspired by Fáfnir, who was also corrupted by greed and transformed into a vile creature.

In late 1976, Bakshi learned that John Boorman was contracted to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in which J. R. R. Tolkien's three-volume novel would be condensed into a single film.

Executive Producer Peter Engel wanted the show to be called When the Bell Rings, but Tartikoff convinced him to go with the title Saved by the Bell.

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

Other landmark examples include a character made up of broken pieces of a stained-glass window in Young Sherlock Holmes, a shapeshifting character in Willow, a tentacle of water in The Abyss, the T-1000 Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, hordes of armies of robots and fantastic creatures in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the planet Pandora in Avatar.

Frodo becomes in some ways the symbolic representation of the conscience of Hobbits, a point made explicitly in the story " Leaf by Niggle " which Tolkien wrote at the same time as the first nine chapters of The Lord of the Rings.

The parody generally follows the outline of The Lord of the Rings, including the preface, the prologue, poetry, and songs, while making light of what Tolkien made serious ( e. g., " He would have finished him off then and there, but pity stayed his hand.

They therefore also have made it into the popular consciousness – they have been used metaphorically, as in Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, or to denote a closeness to the sea, such as their use in The Lord of the Rings both in the insignia of Gondor and therefore Númenor ( used in the design of the films ), and to call Legolas to ( and across ) the sea.

The LPO has made several video game and film soundtracks, of which the best known includes The Lord of the Rings film series.

As well as giving its classical concerts, the LPO has made several film soundtracks, including Lawrence of Arabia, Philadelphia, The Mission, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as well as some CD albums of video game music from the Square Enix series Dragon Quest composed by Koichi Sugiyama, Symphonic Poem: Hope for Final Fantasy XII, the soundtrack for Xenosaga Episode I composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and even Elkie Brooks ' Screen Gems, the entire album of which was used in modern films.

Planning permission has been acquired for the erection on Moseley Green of a high statue of Treebeard, an Ent from The Lord of the Rings, made by Tolkien's great-nephew, Tim Tolkien.

For The Lord of the Rings realistic looking PVC chainmail was made, not just for the lead actors, but also for the hundreds of extras that appeared throughout the films.

The album cover on Orkblut-The Retaliation is a collage of 2 paintings originally made by Lord of the Rings fantasy artist Ian Miller.

Films based on British historical events ; RMS Titanic, Piracy in the Caribbean, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Escape, historical people ; William Wallace, Lawrence of Arabia, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, British stories ; The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds among many others, while British video game Tomb Raider featuring English archaeologist Lara Croft, has been made into feature films.

* re-branding of an existing book with artwork or photographs from a movie, television show, or other media release ( such as movies made on and re-branding the books of The Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia )

The seven month delay of The Hunters expansion release ( from November 2005 to June 2006 ) made the game suffer a significant drop in popularity amongst its players as well as eventually force Decipher Inc. to remove the expansions The Great Eye and Shelob's Lair from its intended expansion since Decipher's license for Lord of the Rings related material was scheduled to expire on June 30, 2007.

* It is also known as " eleventy ", a term made famous by linguist and author J. R. R. Tolkien ( Bilbo Baggins celebrates his eleventy-first birthday at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings ) and derived from the Old English hund endleofantig.

South Canterbury Finance invested $ 30 million in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, only to have New Line produce accounts showing that the movies did not make a profit, but made " horrendous losses ".

Recordings of Tolkien reading excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were made in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer.

According to notes made by Tolkien after the publication of Lord of the Rings and found in Unfinished Tales, Oropher, the Sindarin king of the Silvan Elves of Mirkwood, or Greenwood the Great as it was then known, raised a large force as part of the Last Alliance to overthrow Sauron.

Jackson quickly earned the nickname " Lord of the Imps " due to his shared name with Peter Jackson the director who made the Lord of the Rings films.

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There is reference that sunlight will return them to the stone from which they were made in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

In the The Lord of the Rings Online MMO, wood-trolls that appear to be semi-entish and made of wood appear in the Trollshaws.