The paintings are believed by some to have influenced the young J. R. R. Tolkien, then growing up in Birmingham.

In The Book of Lost Tales ( published in two parts ), the young Tolkien originally intended Eärendil, then spelled Earendel, to be the first of the Half-elven.

Sarehole Mill, which also influenced the young Tolkien, is a water-driven mill, now a museum, within the Shire Country Park.

Francis ThompsonFrancis Thompson ( 18 December 1859 – 13 November 1907 ) was an ascetic and influenced the young J. R. R. Tolkien, who purchased the Works of Francis Thompson in 1913 – 14.

It has been plausibly suggested that these cave-houses and their small gardens were the inspiration for Hobbiton in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, who grew up and spent his young adulthood in nearby Birmingham and Staffordshire.

It is possible that nearby Moseley Bog may have been one of the first places where the young Tolkien regularly encountered trees of various species.

Following the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of the war, a large number of Ustaše, and civilians supporting them ( ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were allegedly motivated by Partisan crimes ) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge.

A study published on the British Medical Journal concluded that " identification as belonging to the Goth subculture some point in their lives was the best predictor of self harm and attempted suicide young teens ", and that it was most possibly due to a selection mechanism ( persons that wanted to harm themselves later identified as goths, thus raising the percentage of those persons who identify as goths ).

Occitan activists ( called Occitanists ) have attempted, in particular with the advent of Occitan-language preschools ( the Calandretas ), to reintroduce the language to the young.

The adult birds that survived the slaughter attempted second nestings at new sites, but were killed by professional hunters before they had a chance to raise any young.

Mr Darcy, shocked, ultimately responds with a letter giving a good account of ( most of ) his actions: Wickham had exchanged his legacies for a cash payment, only to return after gambling away the money to reclaim the forfeited inheritance ; he then attempted to elope with Darcy's young sister, thereby to capture her fortune.

One young Conservative, during a private meeting at the House of Commons, attempted to express his support for Powell.

His cousin Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, initially claimed regency over the young king and attempted to seize the throne for himself in 984.

The New York Times reported an attempted mutiny by Boer Prisoners of War en route to Bermuda and that martial law was enacted on Darryll's Island, in addition to the escape of three Boer Prisoners of War to mainland Bermuda as well as an escape by a young Boer soldier from Bermuda to New York on the steamship Trinidad.

During the second half of the nineties, there appeared in Polish dramatic theatre a new generation of young directors, who have attempted to create productions relevant to the experience and problems of a thirty-something generation brought up surrounded by mass culture, habituated to a fast-moving lifestyle, but at the same time ever more lost in the world of consumer capitalism.

In 1037 both the young prince and his mother returned to Poland and attempted to seize the throne.

" They are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed where they were run out of town after Lennie's love of stroking soft things resulted in an accusation of attempted rape when he touched a young woman's dress.

However, when a young man ( the original woman's son ) had discovered that his fiance was this clone, he killed the clone, and then publicly killed his mother, and also attempted his own suicide before being stopped.

Creusa, unaware of her husband's infertility, thought that Ion's birth must have been the result of Xuthus ' adultery in the past, and attempted to poison the young man, but he was in time to discover her intent, and was about to kill her.

As a young adult, she visited her contemporary, the Roman Emperor Maxentius, and attempted to convince him of the moral error in persecuting Christians for not worshipping idols.

Misery " because two young local men who had attempted to climb it had been overtaken by a blizzard and killed.

In March 1560 a group of disaffected nobles ( led by Jean du Barry, seigneur de la Renaudie ) attempted to abduct the young Francis II and eliminate the Guise faction.

About ten years after the incident, RTÉ attempted to interview the young officer with regard to the allegations but as a serving officer he was unable to comment.

However, it seems that Brigham Young attempted to stamp out the practice of men being sealed to excessively young girls.

Red Wedge was a collective of musicians who attempted to engage young people with politics in general, and the policies of the Labour Party in particular, during the period leading up to the 1987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

Initially, they attempted to send young Frédéric to a German boarding school, but he ran away.

The German juristic world was still under the dominating influence of the Savigny cult, and the older school looked askance at the daring of the young professor, who attempted to adapt the old to new exigencies and to build up a system of natural jurisprudence.

Having in vain attempted to keep a school for girls at Tréguier, she departed and went to Paris as a teacher in a young ladies ' boarding-school.

He then attempted to join a fighting ski unit as a volunteer, but was again rejected because he was too young.

Accounts of the fight at Boulcott's Farm, following James Cowan, have highlighted the story of brave young bugler William Allen, hacked down as he attempted to warn his fellow soldiers of the attack.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

* Hans Brinker ( 2007 ) by Bruce Covill – 40-page illustrated retelling of Hans Brinker for young readers

It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel.

The third phase of Patterson's career began with the publication of Eye of the Storm in 1992, a fictionalized retelling of an unsuccessful mortar attack on Prime Minister John Major by a ruthless young Irish gunman-philosopher named Sean Dillon, hired by an Iraqi millionaire.

The complete retelling of Homers Odyssey in prose form in a book for young people, which received acclaim from critics in the complete German linguistic area, is one of his most successful works.

The context was that the new Powermaster Prime was retelling some of the Transformers ' adventures to the young Tommy Kennedy.

The Network, a cyberpunk / fantasy retelling of Dragon Tamers for young adults has been postponed.

Elders enjoyed teaching and retelling ancient stories of the people to the young.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

In his book The Physician ( 1988 ) Noah Gordon tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time.

The popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false.

A similar story of a young girl transformed into a white deer can be found in Yorkshire, where it formed the basis for Wordsworth's poem The White Deer of Rylstone.

The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury during Jesus ' lost years.

Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.

The picture book " The Dream Eater " by Christian Garrison tells the story of a young boy, Yukio, who meets a baku and brings it to his village.

Another famous story has it that in primary school after the young Gauss misbehaved, his teacher, J. G.

" In 2004, the Manchester Evening News published a contradictory story that a young musician from Wilmslow called David Browning played the trumpet on both the original recording of the theme in 1960 and a re-recording in 1964, for a one-off payment of £ 36.

First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla.

Queensrÿche fared better later the decade, releasing the rock opera Operation: Mindcrime in 1988, which tells a story of a young man, Nikki, awoken from a coma suddenly remembering work done as a political assassin.

The new story features the heroic Doctor and his young sidekick protecting innocent villagers from corrupt government officials and soldiers.

Police heard rumors that the young lovers had planned to have a child and sacrifice the infant ; based on this story, they had Echols institutionalized for psychiatric evaluation.

A " probably apocryphal " story relates that as Beatty walked into Churchill's office at the Admiralty, Churchill looked him over and said, " You seem very young to be an Admiral.

Death of a Hero is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the outbreak of World War I.

Blyton wrote hundreds of other books for young and older children: novels, story collections and some non-fiction.

The myth Enki and Inanna tells the story of the young goddess of the É-anna temple of Uruk, who visits the senior god of Eridu, and is entertained by him in a feast.

The story concerns two rival " aesthetic " poets, who attract the attention of the young ladies of the village, who had been engaged to the members of a cavalry regiment.

Eventually many of the young men in this group would become successful at MGM under Thalberg, and Hawks admired his intelligence and sense of story.

Wanting to capitalize on the countries aviation craze, Fox immediately bought Hawks's original story for The Air Circus, a variation of the male friendship plot of A Girl in Every Port about two young pilots.

Academic Laurie Osborne identifies the direct influence of Hamlet in numerous modern narratives, and divides them into four main categories: fictional accounts of the play's composition, simplifications of the story for young readers, stories expanding the role of one or more characters, and narratives featuring performances of the play.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

He begins the story young, if not an actual child.

He views Rosenstiel as a liar who was paid for her story, whose " description of Hoover in drag engaging in sex with young blond boys in leather while desecrating the Bible is clearly a homophobic fantasy ”.

Frankenheimer returned to television during the late 1950s, moving to film permanently in 1961 with The Young Savages, in which he worked for the first time with Burt Lancaster in a story of a young boy murdered by a New York gang.