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81 unusual facts about The Lord of the Rings


180-degree rule

In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Gollum has a conversation with himself or with his other personality.

Allegorical interpretation of the Bible

For instance, many people have suggested Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is an allegory for the World Wars or that the one ring was an allegory for the atomic bomb.

Along Came Polly

The film opened at #1 at the U.S. Box office, earning $27,721,185 USD in its first opening weekend, ending the month-long reign of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

André Olbrich

Olbrich's favorite books are The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, both by J. R. R. Tolkien; he has stated that his dream is to create an orchestral rock-opera for these epics.

Angmar

In The Battle for Middle-earth II's expansion pack The Rise of the Witch-king the campaign tells the story of the Kingdom of Angmar and the fall of Arnor.

In The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, the final mission of the game takes place in Carn Dûm, corrupted by the power of Agandaur and set in mountainous and rugged terrain.

Barliman Butterbur

Butterbur appears in both Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (1978) and Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), but in both adaptations most of his scenes, including the references to Gandalf's letter, are cut.

James Grout played Butterbur in BBC Radio's 1981 serialization of The Lord of the Rings.

Birmingham Oratory

The Birmingham Oratory was to play a major role in the life of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, who was a parishioner there for about nine years during his childhood.

Bladesmith

These depictions often occur in modern movies such as Conan the Barbarian, Highlander III: The Final Dimension and The Lord of the Rings and mislead their audiences into false understandings of the art.

Blue Wizards

On this later, more positive interpretation, the Blue Wizards may have been as successful as Gandalf, just located in a different theatre beyond the borders of the map in The Lord of the Rings.

Craig H. Russell

Middle Earth, a suite after J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was composed by Craig Russell for the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony.

Crowd simulation

The most notable examples of AI simulation can be seen in New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings films, where AI armies of many thousands battle each other.

Dark Years

In J. R. R. Tolkien's mythology, the Dark Years is a term used in The Lord of the Rings for the time of Sauron's great and almost undisputed domination of Middle-earth, during which many peoples were enslaved or corrupted.

Dawn Planes

For the first time they used an outside producer, award-winning David Long (The Lord of the Rings, Dave Dobbyn, Fur Patrol) and have worked with major label EMI, freeing them from the burden of business.

Denethor

Denethor II, son of Ecthelion, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Return of the King, which is the third and final part of his novel The Lord of the Rings.

Dominion of Men

The Dominion of Men is a period in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium that follows the events of The Lord of the Rings and the Third Age.

Eofor

J. R. R. Tolkien, who studied Beowulf intensively, used the name Éofor as the name of a prince of a warrior people in the background history for The Lord of the Rings.

Éomer

He appears in The Two Towers and The Return of the King, the second and third volumes of Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

Equal Love

Equal Love has had the support of Amnesty International, the Australian Greens and other notable individuals such as Victorian Labor Party Minister for Education Bronwyn Pike, The Lord of the Rings star Ian McKellen and Australian Idol finalist Rob Mills.

Fantasy genealogy

J. R. R. Tolkien invented many family trees of the characters from his high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

Fantasy literature

J. R. R. Tolkien played a large role in the popularization and accessibility of the fantasy genre with his highly successful publications The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

First Age

The greater number is supported by the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings and later writings, the lesser by earlier writings.

Versions of these stories were later published in The Silmarillion, and tales from this period lend a deep sense of time and history to the later period in which the action of The Lord of the Rings takes place.

Forlong the Fat

He is a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, appearing in the third volume, The Return of the King; he was cut from the 2003 film adaptation, however.

Gandalf Ridge

The discovery of very hard volcanic rock at this ridge led to the naming: Gandalf, after a crusty character (a wizard) in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Gandalfus yunohana

It was originally described as Austinograea yunohana in 2000, but was transferred in 2007 by Colin McLay to his new genus, Gandalfus, named after the character Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings.

Glass Hammer

They formed in 1992 when multi-instrumentalists Steve Babb (then known as "Stephen DeArqe") and Fred Schendel began to write and record Journey of the Dunadan, a concept album based on the story of Aragorn from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Ida Nyrop Ludvigsen

Her translation of The Lord of the Rings (1968-1972) was the first to profit from Tolkien's guide to nomenclature for translators.

Isildurs Bane

Isildurs Bane is, both in the original English version and in the translated Swedish one, one of the several names of the One Ring in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings.

Jenny Fulle

At Imageworks, Fulle worked on over thirty films, including What Lies Beneath, Spider-Man 1, 2, and 3, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Aviator, I Am Legend, Open Season (film), Surf's Up (film) and many more.

Jim Rygiel

He has worked on major feature films since 1984, including The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

Joe Letteri

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (visual effects supervisor: Weta Digital)

Jonathan Elias Weiske

Jonathan Elias Weiske voiced over the character "Frodo" for the The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest video game (in German Die Abenteuer von Aragorn)

Lifeline Theatre

Lifeline also produced world premiere adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the Ring) and four installments of the Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries (Whose Body?, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Honeymoon).

Lists of Middle-earth articles

The following are lists relating to Middle-earth, that is, to the legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien in his fictional universe (of which the most famous story is The Lord of the Rings).

Lonely Mountain

"Erebor", specifically the southern spurs of the Mountain and Dale, is a playable map in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II.

Ludwig Kieninger

A noted assembly of work, the Samuels' Hobbit Collection, painstakingly carved by Kieninger over a span of 14 years depicting the characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel is currently on display in the main floor lobby of the Gaston T. Gooch Library at Navarro College.

Magic Fountain of Montjuïc

Performances include film, classical, and modern music, such as The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, a Spanish zarzuela movement, and "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé.

Marc Zender

Dr. Zender is also known for teaching a class in the summer of 2009 about the languages of The Lord of the Rings under the name of "Tolkien as a Translator" at Harvard.

Mark Blumsky

During the shooting of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King he took an active role, and was persuaded to throw the severed heads over a set wall onto a group of Knights.

Memories of Middle Earth

Memories of Middle Earth was created by the Brobdingnagian Bards as a tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Methven, New Zealand

Methven also served as a base to cast and crew for the filming of Edoras (located further inland), for The Lord of the Rings.

Mouth of Sauron

He appears in The Lord of the Rings — specifically in the chapter "The Black Gate Opens" in the third volume, The Return of the King — as the chief emissary of Sauron.

Mrs Bracegirdle's Woodlyn Park Adventure

Of the various lodgings visitors can choose, there is a 1950s rail car, a rare patrol boat from World War II, a Bristol Freighter and The Shire from The Lord of the Rings.

New Zealand fifty-cent coin

In 2003 six coins with the Rank-Broadley portrait were released, with images of characters from The Lord of the Rings.

Nikolaos Zisis

Zisis is known as "The Lord of the Rings" because he is the Greek player with the most combined medals won at the cadet, junior, young men's and men's FIBA European and world tournaments.

Orc Stain

Orc Stain was developed as a result of Stokoe's love of The Lord of the Rings, which led him to consider whether all orcs were as simplistic and warlike as those depicted by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Palisade Crest

Its twelve pinnacles are unofficially named for characters from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Prikosnovénie

The label is best known for its promotion of fairy and elven-styled music and art, which is often described as art inspired by fantasy stories such as The Lord of the Rings.

Rangitata River

The river formed the Rangitata Valley, in the center of the Southern Alps, and the on-location photography of the Edoras set from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Return of the King was filmed in this valley, on and around Mount Sunday.

Retro-Trader

The collection has many items which exist nowhere else in the world, such as the only known surviving Sinclair C5 concept artwork, and also many pieces of original retro gaming cover art, from the likes of artists such as Roger Garland, better known for his artwork for the J. R. R. Tolkien book The Lord of the Rings.

Richard Baneham

He also worked with Rhythm and Hues on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and as animation supervisor (overseeing the animation of the character of Gollum) on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Saga

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series was translated into Swedish by Åke Ohlmarks by the title Sagan om ringen: "The Saga of the Ring" and to Icelandic by Þorsteinn Thorarensen by the title Hringadróttins saga: "Saga of the Lord of the Rings".

Second Age

The 3441 years of the Second Age are, for the most part, unchronicled, unlike the First Age which is largely recounted in The Silmarillion, and the Third Age, which is the time period during which The Lord of the Rings is set.

Second breakfast

In the film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring one of the hobbits, Pippin, references second breakfast in a line of dialogue.

Silvan Elves

Legolas of the Fellowship of the Ring, although he lived among them and presented himself as one of the Silvan folk in The Lord of the Rings, was not one of them.

Simon Lythgoe

Simon Lythgoe, educated at Felsted, was a chief lighting technician for The Lord of the Rings films, and is a producer of American Idol.

Sith Apprentice

While the film primarily spoofs the Star Wars universe in the format of The Apprentice, there are several other notable targets, including swipes at The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dracula, The Lord of the Rings, and in the film's standout sequence, Darth Vader takes to the stage, dancing Riverdance-style with a squad of stormtroopers.

Songs for the Philologists

Reprinted in Anderson’s Annotated Hobbit, and in a revised form in The Return of the Shadow.

Taliska

During the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien toyed with the idea of making Taliska the primordial tongue of the people of Rohan who spoke Old English in his translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005) is a nonfiction book written by scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.

Reprinted for the first time since 1980, and corrected and expanded, is Tolkien's Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings (previously referred to as Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings), an index of persons, places, and things designed to aid the translator in rendering Tolkien's work into foreign languages.

The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest

Sam, now the mayor of Hobbiton, is preparing a grand party for King Elessar (Aragorn), who is on his way to Hobbiton along with Arwen.

Set following the events of the three books, players guide a young hobbit around The Shire (the hub world), who listens to stories told by Samwise Gamgee (a hobbit) about Aragorn.

In the Wii and PlayStation 3 versions, a second player can drop in and play as Gandalf at any time during the game.

The Lord of the Rings: Tactics

However, it is a direct adaptation of Peter Jackson's film adaptations, and has characters that resemble the films' depictions of them.

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king

It also comes with a new campaign based on Angmar, consisting of eight missions telling the rise of the Witch-king of Angmar and the fall of the kingdom of Arnor.

The campaign tells the story of the fall of the Kingdom of Arnor at the hands of Angmar and the Witch-king.

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

Kingsfoil and athelas are suggested to be two separate plants, but in the books they are alternate names.

On the way to Moria, Berethor and Idrial meet up with Elegost, a Dúnedain Ranger.

The Lord of the Rings: The White Council

Included with the July 13, 2006 announcement was the information that since EA held the game development licenses to both Tolkien’s books and the New Line film trilogy, the game was to be based on both, like The Battle for Middle-earth II.

The Sea-Bell

Although "Looney" was composed long before Tolkien began work on The Lord of the Rings, the 1962 version is subtitled "Frodos Dreme".

The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen

The short version of "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" can be found in Appendix A of The Lord of the Rings.

It can be found in Appendix A of Tolkien's most famous book, The Lord of the Rings.

The Tolkien Ensemble

The Tolkien Ensemble (founded in 1995) is a Danish ensemble which aims to create "the world's first complete musical interpretation of the poems and songs from The Lord of the Rings".

Tolkien's Ring

Tolkien's Ring is a book written by David Day about the origins of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings story and the origins of Middle-earth in general.

Vanhat herrat

That year, all strips from 1982 onwards were collected in a single 222-page volume, "Taru Vanhoista herroista" ("The Legend of the Old Gentlemen" - a play on the name of the Finnish translation of The Lord of the Rings), ISBN 952-9809-56-5.

West Stow

The fan-made short film Born of Hope, a prequel to the J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired movie trilogy The Lord of the Rings, was largely filmed in West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village.

Westron

Westron is the closest thing to a lingua franca in Middle-earth, at least at the time during which The Lord of the Rings is set.

Wireless Thessaloniki

The linux floppy distribution formed, named Paladir, was named after the palantíri in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as it provided insight to other wireless routers running Paladir.


Beregond and Bergil

His younger brother Borlas is central to The New Shadow, the soon-abandoned draft for a The Lord of the Rings sequel published in The Peoples of Middle-earth.

Craig Detweiler

This was followed by Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century (2008), discussing films including: Memento, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Lord of The Rings and Little Miss Sunshine from a social, cultural, and theological perspective.

Fourth wall

The metaphor of the fourth wall has been applied by literary critic David Barnett to The Harvard Lampoons parody of The Lord of the Rings when a character breaks the conventions of storytelling by referring to the text itself.

George Marshall Ruge

George Marshall Ruge is known for his work as second unit director and stunt coordinator on such film projects as the Pirates of the Caribbean four-film franchise, and as stunt coordinator on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Glorfindel

In The Return of the Shadow, Christopher Tolkien states that some time after the publication of The Lord of the Rings, his father "gave a great deal of thought to the matter of Glorfindel" in the book, and decided that it was a "somewhat random use" of a name from The Silmarillion that would probably have been changed, had it been noticed sooner.

GusGus

A few former members such as Hafdís Huld, Blake, and Daníel Ágúst have gone solo, most notably though Emilíana Torrini, who provided a song for the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Hobbit Day

Hobbit Day is the birthday of the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, two fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's popular set of books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Jack May

He also appeared as the waiter Garkbit in the television version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Théoden in the 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, as General Hermack in the 1969 Doctor Who serial The Space Pirates, and in Bachelor Father.

May It Be

"May It Be" is a song composed by Irish musician Enya and Roma Ryan featured in Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring.

Mike Lilly

Lilly’s original art sketch cards can also be seen for the Revenge of the Sith trading card line, The Lord of the Rings Evolution and Masterpieces series, Frankenstein from Universal, The Vintage Poster Collection sketch cards from Breygent, The Complete Avengers from Marvel Comics/Rittenhouse Archives and DC Legacy archive editions from DC Comics.

Peregrin Took

In the 1981 BBC radio serial of The Lord of the Rings, Pippin was played by John McAndrew.

Roger Argente

In great demand as a session musician, Roger has recorded film scores with top studio composer's Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Horner, Michael Kamen, Howard Shore, David Arnold, Hans Zimmer, John Barry, Elmer Bernstein, Maurice Jarre, Danny Elfman and Lalo Schifrin working on such recent films as Gladiator, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and James Bond.

Roma Ryan

Ryan's lyrics for Enya have won Grammy Awards; the song "May It Be" for the The Lord of the Rings film The Fellowship of the Ring was nominated for an Oscar.

The Armageddon Rag

Lynch had managed several bands, including the legendary rock and roll group, the Nazgûl (named for the demonic creatures in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings).

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game (a.k.a. LOTR TCG) is a collectible card game produced by Decipher, Inc. Released November 2001, it is based on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and the J. R. R. Tolkien novel on which the films were based.

The Road to Middle-earth

The book discusses the sources of Tolkien's inspiration in creating the world of Middle-earth and the writing of works including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

They shall not pass

In J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, the wizard Gandalf declares repeatedly, "You cannot pass!" when he blocks the pursuing demon called a Balrog.

Tuor

Unfinished Tales contains the start of a more mature and complete narrative, which Tolkien began after finishing The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s.