* Watcher in the Water, a creature from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy book series The Lord of the Rings

The Watcher in the Water is a fictional creature in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium ; it appears in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of The Lord of the Rings.

Unknown to the Fellowship, something resided in the lake outside the gates, the " Watcher in the Water ".

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The " Watcher in the Water " is the only name Tolkien gave to this creature in the The Lord of the Rings, and in any of his writings, although Tolkien refers to the Watcher in the Water as simply " The Watcher " for the remainder of the novel.

In A Tolkien Bestiary, David Day calls the Watcher a kraken ; however, he also implies that there are some differences between the kraken of Scandinavian folklore and the Watcher in the Water.

Harl also believes that Watcher in the Water represents itself as gatekeeper whose goal, in the context of the archetypal journey, is to guard the Doors of Durin keeping the heroes from entering into new territory, psychologically or spiritually.

The Watcher in the Water in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | The Fellowship of the Ring.

The Watcher in the Water appears in both film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings: Ralph Bakshi's animated The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 ) and Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ).

The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game by Games Workshop, based on Jackson's film, calls the Watcher in the Water the " Guardian of the Doors of Durin ".

The Second Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references to a Watcher ( Grigori ) called Satanael.

They are mentored by the school librarian who is also Buffy's Watcher, Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ), who often works closely with Willow in researching the various monsters the group encounters.

During this time, he also imprisoned the Watcher, an evil and powerful necromancer, beneath the Cloudspine mountain range.

She also played supporting roles in two Disney films, Return from Witch Mountain ( 1978 ) and The Watcher in the Woods ( 1980 ).

Before becoming a fully-fledged Watcher, he also worked as " the curator of a British museum, maybe the British Museum " as Willow says (" Welcome to the Hellmouth "), although, given the context, she may well have been repeating a rumor that was going around the school.

He also takes Andrew Wells under his wing, training him to be a Watcher.

Unlike the long line of Slayers before her, Buffy accomplishes this with the help of her friends ( dubbed the Scooby Gang ), including her Watcher, Giles, who is also the school librarian.

While the mainstream versions do defeat their counterparts, they are also able to force the Centurion from the timeline, after which Uatu the Watcher tells them he is Kang.

Morasca and Zohn also starred in " The Watcher ", a 20 minute horror movie included in the Drive-In Horror Show series,

The Delicates also wrote and recorded his " Submarine Race Watcher " theme, used to open and close his radio show.

These include The Watcher ( also called the Silent Watcher or the Great Silent Watcher ), whose function it is to continually watch the akashic records and download daily all the information on them relevant to the life waves of Earth and forward it to the Custodian of the Hall of Records.

Chester also plays on the Steve Hackett albums, Please Don't Touch ( 1978 ) and Watcher of the Skies: Genesis Revisited ( 1996 ).

During this time, he also imprisoned the Watcher, an evil and powerful necromancer, beneath the Cloudspine mountain range.

In both cases, Miyu becomes the Guardian ( also referred to as the " Watcher ") after losing her parents.

" It also featured the instrumental version of " Watcher of the Skies " which had last been played on the 1976 tour with Bill Bruford.

The UK comics also reprinted several other supporting strips in each issue from other Marvel properties ( such as The Micronauts, Tales of the Watcher, Star Lord, etc .).

Shamsiel ( Aramaic: שמשין אל, Greek: Σεμιήλ ), also spelled Samsâpêêl, Shamshel, Shashiel or Shamshiel, was the 16th Watcher of the 20 leaders of the 200 fallen angels that are mentioned in an ancient work called the Book of Enoch.

Tamiel ( Aramaic: Unknown, Greek: Ταμιήλ ), also spelled Tâmîêl, is a fallen angel, the fifth mentioned of the 20 Watcher leaders of the 200 fallen angels in the Book of Enoch.

Taylor also provided the voice of the main hero Widget in Widget the World Watcher and Hard Luck Duck in a What-a-Cartoon!

The structure of this new Council is unknown, but it appears that Rupert Giles is its new head and is training Andrew Wells as a Watcher.

Uatu, often simply known as The Watcher, is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

However, it appears that there is more than one Watcher in the Ultimate universe, for in Ultimate X-Men # 96 Jean Grey attempts to find heaven to resurrect her father, only to be stopped by a Silver Surfer that is stationed in front of thousands of Watchers in a hive colony.

* Uatu the Watcher appears in the Robot Chicken episode " Tapping a Hero ", voiced by Tom Root.

* The X-Mansion appears at the end of the X-Men / Star Trek crossover novel Planet X. Q and Watcher have a discussion while observing the X-Men on its lawn.

), Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends from 1991 ( eight puffs of smoke form the Thomas logo while Thomas chugs along with Annie and Clarabel In Trust Thomas ), Widget the World Watcher ( Widget transforms into a kangaroo, Widget introduces his name ), Postman Pat ( Pat drives in his van in Postman Pat Theme, Pat delivers a letter in Postman Pat and the Toy Soldiers ), a clip from ABC for Kids: Live In Concert with GRTO and HCAB, it later shows The Wiggles except Jeff doing Here Comes a Bear, Ferry Boat Fred ( Fred sails until a monkey breaks his mast, Fred's Captain climbs aboard to start work in the Ferry Boat Fred Theme )( that will sometimes be replaced by a clip with Koala from Ferry Boat Fred ) from 1994 ( Blinky carries his sack in Blinky Bill Theme ) and Spot the Dog ( Spot barks and jumps off a tractor in Spot Goes to the Farm ) is followed by 0: 14-23 of the identity and rocks back to wipe the rest of the logo as a ladybug traces an orange " the ", a violet " best ", a green " in ", a blue " children's ", a red " entertainment ", a yellow " on " and a pink " video ".

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* Rupert Giles — As Buffy's Watcher, and a father-figure and mentor to the entire group, Giles is a founding figure of the Scooby Gang, although his British upbringing resists the lighthearted nickname at first.

Giles has extensive knowledge of demonology and Slayer combat ( including at least a theoretical knowledge of jujutsu and aikido, but excelling at the art of fencing ), mainly due to his training as a Watcher.

* Der Hüter der Schwelle (" Watcher at the Step ", 1921 )

Xander meets Buffy Summers ( Gellar ), the Slayer, on her first day at Sunnydale High, as well as her Watcher Rupert Giles ( Anthony Head ).

Nice wrote nearly 250 papers on birds, 3, 000 book reviews and several books including the Birds of Oklahoma ( 1924 ), The Watcher at the Nest ( 1939 ) and her autobiography.

Rupert Giles was reinstated as Buffy's official Watcher in the season 5 episode " Checkpoint ," and he remains so until the events at the end of Season 5.

A standard Watcher has at least some proficiency in the use of magic with certain individuals being more powerful than others.

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The Watcher comic books have tales about the special race of beings talented at information processing called The Watchers spread throughout the Cosmos that it is believed in Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings that The Watcher belongs to.

The film opened at # 2 at the North American box office making $ 7. 1 million USD in its opening weekend, behind The Watcher, which opened at the top spot.

The first European to sight the mountain was James Cook, who called it Mount Odin, but later nicknamed it " The Watcher " since his ship seemed to be visible from it at so many points along the coast.

Yet other characters are capable of breaking the fourth wall and addressing the readers directly, such as the She-Hulk and Deadpool ; and still others, such as the Earth's Watcher, Uatu, is possessed of the ability to see all alternate Earths in the Marvel Universe setting at will, including the real one in which he and all other beings are nothing more than fictional characters ( in some early issues of What If ?, the Watcher actually addressed the reader by showing him which issues of which comics the past exploits of a given character could be found in ).

He then looks up at the three of them and utters his last words: " It's the end -- but the moment has been prepared for ..." He then motions to the white-clad figure of the Watcher, who begins approaching the Doctor.

Nothing is known of his Watcher assignments, indeed, considering that he stayed among them for at least 200 years and being sought for likely even longer, it is presumable that he next-to-never had a watcher.

Back in the library, Buffy finally tells Giles and Willow that Angel was cured when she was forced to kill him which is the reason why she left town and was unable to deal with the trauma of it all ... much like the way Faith did at running away from Boston when she witnessed her Watcher killed by Kakistos.

At the conclusion of the story, despite the Toymaker's attempts to turn the Fifth Doctor's companions against him, he is defeated when Rallon expels the Toymaker from his body by triggering all twelve of his regenerations at once, the Toymaker subsequently being ' possessed ' by Rallon's Watcher to keep him in check in future ( Hence accounting for the Toymaker's different personality during his appearance in The Nightmare Fair ; with Rallon's Watcher now his host rather than Rallon himself, it is as though the Toymaker himself has regenerated, changing minor but crucial aspects of his personality ).

Under Ms Lortel's guidance The White Barn premiered plays ( many of which enjoyed successful transfers to commercial theatres ) such as: George C. Wolfe and Lawrence Bearson's Ivory Tower with Eva Marie Saint ( 1947 ); Sean O ' Casey's Red Roses for Me ( 1948 ); Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs ( 1957 ); Archibald MacLeish's This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters ( 1959 ); Edward Albee's Fam and Yam ( 1960 ); Samuel Beckett's Embers ( 1960 ); Murray Schisgal's The Typists ( 1961 ); Adrienne Kennedy's The Owl Answers ( 1965 ); Norman Rosten's Come Slowly Eden ( 1966 ); Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( 1966 ); Terrence McNally's Next ( 1967 ); Barbara Wersba's The Dream Watcher starring Eva Le Gallienne ( 1975 ); June Havoc's Nuts for the Underman ( 1977 ); David Allen's Cheapside starring Cherry Jones ( which Ms. Lortel later co-produced at the Half Moon Theatre in London ); and Margaret Sanger's Unfinished Business, starring Eileen Heckart ( 1989 ).