If the book of Zephaniah was largely composed during the monarchic period, the author of the book of Zephaniah attempts to accomplish this change in behaviour through the threat of future calamity for “ those who have turned back from following the Lord, / who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him ” ( 1: 6 ).

The author conceives of a date in the future – the ‘ great day of the Lord ’ – when the Lord will judge all the people of the earth.

After its first release, this book sold far better than any of Butler's other works — perhaps because the British public assumed that the anonymous author was some better-known figure ( the favorite being Lord Lytton, who had published The Coming Race two years previously ).

The author identifies himself as " James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ ", with " the earliest extant manuscripts of James usually dated to mid-to-late third century.

* the author introduces himself merely as " a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ ", without invoking any special family relationship to Jesus.

Lord Melbourne, then Prime Minister, offered him a lordship of the admiralty, which he declined as likely to interfere with his activity as an author.

* 1917 – Walter Lord, American author ( d. 2002 )

Many names and ideas in the play were borrowed from people or places the author had known ; Lady Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas ' mother, for example, lived at Bracknell.

Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.

* David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, ( author, lawyer )

However, author Brian Keogh concluded in his privately published history of the Lea & Perrins firm on the 100th anniversary of the Midland Road plant, that " No Lord Sandys was ever governor of Bengal, or as far as any records show, ever in India.

* January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien, professor and author of The Lord of the Rings ( d. 1973 )

* July 6 – Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII, after refusing to agree to Henry's decision to separate the English Church from the Roman Catholic Church.

Lord Caradon, chief author of the resolution, takes a subtly different slant.

Per Lord Caradon, the chief author of the resolution:

* Dorothy L. Sayers, author of the Lord Peter Wimsey books and translator of Dante's Divina Commedia.

According to the author in the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, Hobbits are " relatives " of the race of Men.

Recently the author put on the Lord in baptism and cast his lot with brethren who continue steadfastly observing the order of the Lord's house.

In 1553 Sir Nicholas Bacon married secondly Anne Cooke ( 1528 – 1610 ), one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, by whom he had two sons, Anthony ( 1558 – 1601 ) and Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ), who became Lord Chancellor and was also a philosopher, author and scientist.

Shackleton then worked hard to persuade others of his wealthy friends and acquaintances to contribute, including Sir Phillip Lee Brocklehurst, who subscribed £ 2, 000 ( 2011 equivalent £ 157, 000 ) to secure a place on the expedition, author Campbell Mackellar, and Guinness baron Lord Iveagh whose contribution was secured less than two weeks before the departure of the expedition ship Nimrod.

The first was conceived in 1937 by the Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor General's Literary Award.

The awards were created by the Lord Tweedsmuir, himself the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.

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.

The author first wrote of it in The Lord of the Rings, and it is retrospectively mentioned in the third, revised edition of The Hobbit in 1966.

Sometimes a song or a poem or an image in a fiction work, which was actually composed by the author, is attributed by the author to one of his characters, for example the song " Namarie " in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, which Tolkien attributes to the character Galadriel.

* J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, remarked that the building resembled Sauron's temple to Morgoth on Númenor.

The title is derived from the subtitle of The Hobbit, by Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien ; the title also appears in the film Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the King.

* James Cain, author of " The Postman Always Rings Twice ".

Most significantly, the main character's name, Miyamoto Usagi, is a play on " Miyamoto Musashi ", Japan's most famous historical samurai and the author of The Book of Five Rings, and " Usagi " the Japanese language word for " rabbit " ( The story notes for one volume also cite as an influence Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, which features Miyamoto Musashi as a protagonist.

J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, stayed in Great Haywood during the winter of 1916 / 17 and in his story ' The Tale of the Sun and the Moon ' ( The Book of Lost Tales 1 ) he writes about a gnome called Gilfanon who owned an ancient house "... the House of a Hundred Chimneys, that stands nigh the bridge of Tavrobel ".

Other criteria for box sets have included all films of a series such as the Star Wars series or the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and a selection of adaptions of a particular author such as Stephen King or Jane Austen.

* Viggo Mortensen, actor and author, star of the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, A History of Violence, and The Road

He is widely know as the author of many movie ' making of ' books, including those for the Harry Potter series and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

Faramir's grandson Barahir is mentioned in the Prologue of The Lord of the Rings as the author of The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, but Tolkien does not indicate whether he was a Steward, or even the son of Elboron.

Musashi generally refers to Miyamoto Musashi ( c. 1584 – 1645 ), a Japanese master swordsman, painter, and author of The Book of Five Rings.

Mimasaka is the home of the samurai Miyamoto Musashi, the author of The Book of Five Rings.

English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, was born in Bloemfontein in 1892.

Miyamoto Musashi, samurai swordman, author of The Book of Five Rings and founder of the Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryū, famous for its use of two swords, lived in the Kokura castle under the patronage of the Ogasawara and Hosokawa clans briefly during 1634.

* 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.

The film's distributor, New Line Cinema, was not licensed to use the poem as it is a separate work from The Lord of the Rings and Christopher Tolkien, son of the author and his literary executor, refused to license it as he steadfastly refused to have anything to do with the movies.

Many famous writers, past and present, are connected with Headingley: Arthur Ransome, best known perhaps for the children's classic Swallows and Amazons, was born there, J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, lived there when he worked at the university, playwright Alan Bennett once lived over a butcher's shop ( now a dry cleaner's ) opposite the Three Horseshoes and TV writer Kay Mellor lives in Weetwood today.

The Red Book of Westmarch ( sometimes Red Book of the Periannath, and The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings, also known as the Thain's Book after its principal version ) is a fictional manuscript written by hobbits, a conceit of author J. R. R. Tolkien to explain the source of his fantasy writings.