Lord of the Dark Millennium: The Dan Abnett Collection (Warhammer 40,000)

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The word Sith is taken from the 1914 science fiction novel, The Warlord of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs in which it refers to a species of beetle. It was first used for Star Wars in the 1974 rough draft of Star Wars [3] with the first published use being the 1976 novelization of Star Wars as a title for the villain Darth Vader, the "Dark Lord of the Sith". Sith characters had also been portrayed as such in some Star Wars Legends works prior to the release of The Phantom Menace (the first film to identify characters as Sith on-screen), and in deleted footage from the original film. He was a gifted linguist, influenced by Celtic, [24] [21] Finnish, [25] Slavic, [26] and Greek language and mythology. [27] Túrin and Niënor’s cursed lives were not their own fault – they were literally cursed. Their father Húrin was captured by Morgoth, who wanted to know where the hidden Elven city of Gondolin was. Húrin refused to tell him, so Morgoth imprisoned him on a volcano and cursed his children, keeping Húrin alive so he could see just how effective the curse was. And boy, was it effective.

See the lead images in the articles on the three separate volumes, e.g. The Fellowship of the Ring. a b Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The Road to Middle-earth (Thirded.). HarperCollins. pp.74, 169–170 and passim. ISBN 978-0-261-10275-0. In film versions of The Lord of the Rings, Sauron has been left off-screen as "an invisible and unvisualizable antagonist" [9] as in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version, [9] or as a disembodied Eye, as in Rankin/Bass' 1980 animated adaptation of The Return of the King. [10] Unwin, Rayner (1999). George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer. Merlin Unwin Books. pp.97–99. ISBN 1-873674-37-6.Hood, Gwenyth (1987). "Sauron and Dracula". Mythlore. 14 (2 (52)): 11–17, 56. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19 . Retrieved 2020-05-31. Auden, W. H. (June 1968). "Good and Evil in The Lord of the Rings". Critical Quarterly. 10 (1–2): 138–142. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8705.1968.tb02218.x. Campbell, Lori M. (2010). Portals of Power: Magical Agency and Transformation in Literary Fantasy. McFarland. p.161. ISBN 978-0-7864-5655-0.

Handwerk, Brian (1 March 2004). " Lord of the Rings Inspired by an Ancient Epic". National Geographic News. National Geographic Society. pp.1–2. Archived from the original on 16 March 2006 . Retrieved 4 October 2006. Main article: J. R. R. Tolkien's influences Beowulf 's eotenas [ond] ylfe [ond] orcneas, "ogres [and] elves [and] devil-corpses" helped to inspire Tolkien to create the Orcs and Elves of Middle-earth. [20]

Bramwell, Tony (2014). Magical Mystery Tours: My Life with the Beatles. Pavilion Books. p.70. ISBN 978-1-910232-16-3. The Lord of the Rings has had a profound and wide-ranging impact on popular culture, beginning with its publication in the 1950s, but especially during the 1960s and 1970s, when young people embraced it as a countercultural saga. [144] " Frodo Lives!" and "Gandalf for President" were two phrases popular amongst United States Tolkien fans during this time. [145] Its impact is such that the words "Tolkienian" and "Tolkienesque" have entered the Oxford English Dictionary, and many of his fantasy terms, formerly little-known in English, such as " Orc" and " Warg", have become widespread in that domain. [146] a b c Crown, Sarah (27 October 2014). "Baddies in books: Sauron, literature's ultimate source of evil". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020 . Retrieved 19 September 2020. Harlow, John (28 May 2008). "Hobbit movies meet dire foe in son of Tolkien". The Times. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011 . Retrieved 19 January 2022. A few years after the War of the Last Alliance, Isildur's army was ambushed by Orcs at the Gladden Fields. Isildur put on the Ring and attempted to escape by swimming across Anduin, but the Ring, trying to return to Sauron, slipped from his finger. Isildur was killed by Orc archers. Sauron spent a thousand years as a shapeless, dormant evil. [T 23] The Necromancer of Dol Guldur [ edit ]