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This is a list of stock characters within the heroic archetype.

The Chosen One

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Must typically fulfill an ancient prophecy to save the world, often requiring the help of a Wise Old Man or Elderly Martial Arts Master to fulfill this destiny. Almost always of apparently humble origins or (often is discovered in the story as being) from a noble family. Requires multiple sidekicks, often with radically different skills. Some people believe that a chosen person in reality is to be God's 'favourite'.

Examples include:

Christ Figure

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The Christ Figure is an extended metaphor where a character is strongly associated with or stands in for the religious figure of Jesus Christ. Narratives often present Christ figures as conspicuously moral and innocent, or as broken or wicked persons who find redemption in the act of sacrificing themselves to a hostile world. This figure overlaps considerably with others such as The Reluctant Hero or The Fool.

Examples include:

The Reluctant Hero

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Often overlapping with the Chosen One, this hero is usually an ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances beyond his/her control that will require a great deal of effort and peril on his/her part. This hero has reservations about fulfilling their heroic obligations for various reasons, such as disbelief in their importance, or the desire to live a simple life.

Examples of the reluctant hero include:

The Clumsy Hero

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A well-meaning person who often accidentally injures friend and foe alike, seeing through their blundering outside, the Clumsy Hero generally has a righteous purpose to achieve and only wishes to help others around him/her self, nevertheless it often results in disorder.

The Orphaned Hero

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One of the most common heroes in literature, film, and other media. Someone whose parents were killed by the antagonist, evil people, an accident or simply died when he or she was young. He or she is often adopted by their uncle and/or aunt who either plays a villainous role (as in Harry Potter or Cinderella) or a mentoring one (as in Spider-Man), and usually overlaps with one of the other categories (chosen one, reluctant hero, etc.). Examples include:

The Haunted Hero

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The Haunted Hero must deal with a traumatic or tragic past or some supernatural power or curse, which has usually been with them since childhood, before he or she can triumph. Examples include:

The Born Loser/The Fall Guy

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A very friendly and considerate fellow with whom the audience is meant to sympathize. He (occasionally she) means well, and works very hard to achieve his goals only to fail miserably through no fault of his own, and constantly gets victimized by both his peers and Fate. Examples include:

The Competent Man

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Can do anything well; repair a machine, fight, cook a meal, build a house, etc. A Jack-of-all-Trades. The heroes (and heroines) of Robert A. Heinlein's fiction are generally Competent Men, especially Lazarus Long.

The most famous examples of Competent Men include

The Everyman

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The opposite of the Competent Man; an ordinary person often thrust into extraordinary circumstances who must find a way to triumph without the benefit of special abilities or the variety of skills possessed by the Competent Man. The Everyman is often an audience identification figure.

Examples include

The Contender

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An athlete with raw talent, but who must rely on the guidance of a Wise Old Man or similar character in order to overcome internal limitations in order to triumph. Examples of this are:

The Loose cannon or Cop on the Edge

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A reckless cop forced to bend the rules to see justice served. Sometimes overlaps with the anti-hero. Examples include:

The Wise Old Man

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An elderly character who offers advice and guidance to the protagonists. Examples include:

The Elderly Martial Arts Master

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A more specific class of the Wise Old Man archetype, is typically an extremely old Asian man who is nonetheless a near invincible master of the martial arts, in the case of some anime the male wise old man may end up being a pervert, for example:

The Honest Thief

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Only steals to live or for vengeance on the rich. Typically gives to the poor. Often suave or cheeky. Archetype depicted as a fox, may overlap with the Repentant Traitor and/or the Trickster. Examples include:

The Lovable Rogue

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Full of confidence and friendly, but doesn’t recognize local customs and isn't overly sophisticated. A few good examples are:

The Outlaw

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A cold-blooded desperado, as opposed to the Honest Thief or Lovable Rogue, but could become either type. A few examples are

The Humbled Hero

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Starts out as a rich and powerful, but arrogant and selfish, character. He soon has his fortunes reversed, and he is forced to befriend a firm but honest and kindly companion as he struggles to get his status back, becoming a better person in the process. Examples include:

The Nerd

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Always with his pocket protector, spectacles, and usually a strange or old-fashioned name. Often also struck with a speech impediment. He frequently has an ardent, futile crush on the Pretty Ugly Girl but can’t get her attention because she herself has a crush on The Jock or the Nice Guy. Examples include:

The Reclusive Genius

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An intelligent and antisocial character that is either a main character or has some of relation to one. He usually no longer interacts with the outside world and antagonizes the main characters for most of the story, but provides crucial support at the story's climax. Examples are:

The Whiz kid

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A brainy sidekick to the hero. Often the weakest physically of the group. As a result, he can be useless in a fight, but knows his way around computers and technical stuff. Often witty, in an erudite way. Typically uses complex technical jargon in his or her speech. Examples:

The Repentant Traitor

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Often used in children's books and films, he starts out as a clear-cut villain, who is sent to infiltrate and betray the "good guys", but is won over by the kindness/goodness of the good guys and builds up a rapport or changes their actions to save a loved one on the "good guys'" side. Sometimes his defection is caused by abuse or a betrayal from the main villain. Changes side to join them, but in this almost always loses their trust in admitting to having worked for the enemy, and at this point becomes a true traitor in betraying his (or her) original side. Almost always killed or severely wounded in this change to the good guys. A repentant traitor can also be someone who was the main villain but was betrayed by someone who worked for them and helped the good side after being treated with kindness. Examples:

The Rookie

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Often young, bright, and eager to please. Typically fresh out of school and often at the top of his/her class. They tend to act “by the book” because it is all they know; thus, they are often disturbed by the hero's sometimes unorthodox methods. Although the hero may occasionally lose patience with them, he knows that the rookie is valuable raw material with potential, ready to be shaped and molded. Examples:

Second string villain turned hero

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Very persistent and invariably pursues the hero with a personal vendetta. Usually a flunky of the main villain or a petty criminal acting on their own. They are usually shown as incompetent and not taken too seriously by either their enemies or allies (this is less common in anime or other Japanese-based series such as Power Rangers, where the same archetype generally starts out as a powerful adversary). Like the Repentant Traitor, they have been known to reform when the hero treats them with compassion having witnessed their progressive fall into disgrace and humiliation. Also, they have acted as early placeholder villains who inevitably join with the hero when the true villain of the story comes on stage. Examples include:

The Boy Next Door

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He is often invoked in American contexts to indicate wholesome, unassuming, or "average" masculinity; he is the male counterpart of the "girl next door." He is a young man who is just discovering his physical and spiritual strengths, and still maintains an innocent wonder about them. There are a whole set of typical relations he may maintain in the story. The boy next door is often, but not always, the protagonist of a story. As such, his innocence, sincerity, and common origin will often be contrasted with the cleverness, hypocrisy, and privilege of the antagonist. The boy next door may have a sidekick. Often a femme fatale or a girl next door will be pulled between love for the boy next door and her desire for a luxurious life offered by the villain. Examples include:

The Nice Jock

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The Nice Jock excels in athletics, while often being low on intelligence. His name usually only has one syllable. He tends to be the muscle of the group and is usually found on the outskirts of the Misfits. Examples include:

The Bad Boy

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The male counterpart of the Bad Girl, the Bad Boy/Rebel is usually a troubled and rebellious adolescent or young adult, often the black sheep of the family and a sort of outcast in school. His preferences in music, fashion or lifestyle are unconventional, alternative or non-mainstream. The Bad Boy is sometimes loud or obnoxious, and is not afraid to stand out in a crowd, an individual who doesn't care much about what anyone else thinks. Examples include:

The bad boy is an archetype in popular culture for a rebel who is impulsive, brash and undeterred by social restrictions. Examples in film and entertainment include Tommy Lee, Clint Eastwood, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Vin Diesel, Johnny Depp, Bruce Willis and various rock stars. He is characterized by mysteriousness, non-conformity, extreme confidence, a seeming lack of concern with the restrictions of a moral compass along with apparent indifference toward what others think of him.

In seduction literature, the attraction of many beautiful women to the "bad boy" archetype is attributed both to his confidence, the rarity of this type of personality which makes him stand out, his intriguing mysteriousness, and his seeming indifference (perhaps springing from an overabundance of sexual options)[1] and unavailability, which challenge her to "chase" him. This is in contrast to supplicating men who come off as needy and desperate to please her, which suggests lower value and thus ironically makes her less interested in them.[2]

The bad boy is an extremely common archetype in romance novels.[3]

The Outsider

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Bad Boy type, he excludes himself from popular social circles and avoids people acting idiotic. His story is centred about a new life for him and how he gets into trouble with the new society. Examples include:

The Mean Jock

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The jock stereotype is used often in the mass media to portray a relatively unintelligent and unenlightened, but nonetheless physically and socially well endowed character. Rich, spoiled, popular and - usually a tall, physically fit, male in his late teens or early twenties - well-known for his athletic abilities. An antagonist who is often regarded as bullies to his peers, especially those who are not athletically inclined or don't play sports and does not have much of a tolerance for outsiders. Examples include:

The Misfit

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Often a geeky teen, socially awkward. A person who is out of place, or outside the mainstream.

Sidekick

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Assistant to the hero. Sometimes acting like a comic relief but can be surprisingly brave and resourceful. Examples include:

References

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  1. ^ Brown Monkey Theory - The Feminization of Man (Male Archetype ) Part IV
  2. ^ Tate, Brett. The Professional Bachelor. pp. 91–94. ISBN 978-0-09752640-2-7. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
  3. ^ Red River Romance Writers - Article











The Middle-earth Fantasy writings of J._R._R._Tolkien have had a profound and wide-ranging impact on Popular_culture. This is especially true for The_Lord_of_the_Rings, ever since its publication in the 1950s, but especially throughout the 1960s and 1970s, where young people embraced it as a countercultural saga, and its influence has been vastly extended in the present day, thanks to the live-action film trilogy by Peter_Jackson. Many of the following references are directly inspired by the latter films rather than the book. ==References== ===Movies, television, and radio=== {{spoiler}} *In an episode of the sitcom Friends, Ross and Chandler speak about a university friend, called "Gandalf (-the Party Wizard)." When Joey asks why they call him Gandalf, they reply, "Didn't you read the Lord of the Rings in high school?" to which Joey responds, "No, I had sex in high school." *In addition to spoofing elements of The Lord of the Rings, South_Park has a nurse with a conjoined twin fetus on her head called Nurse Gollum. * The South Park episode "The_Return_of_the_Lord_of_the_Rings_to_the_Two_Towers" is a parody of the movie version of The Lord of the Rings. * The TV show Babylon_5 (1993-1998) includes occasional homages to The Lord of the Rings, as well as epic themes drawn from similar mythological roots. See Babylon_5_influences for a more detailed exploration. * In The_Grim_Adventures_of_Billy_and_Mandy episode Here_Thar_Be_Dwarves, Billy finds his way to the Dwarves stronghold Boringya. There Dwarves leader "Beardbottom" tells him about the on-going Dwarves' war with Elves over the monopoly on the cookie industry, and asks him for an aid in the big final assault on an Elves Cookie Factory. A flashback about the origins of the war is a nod to the Council_of_Elrond, where the races are shown dividing up a monopol on the fast-food industry. * In another episode of The_Grim_Adventures_of_Billy_and_Mandy, Beast and Barbarians, The_Hobbit and The_Lord_of_the_Rings are parodied: Mandy acquires a ring from a Gollum-like creature by solving a riddle ("What's black and blue and red all over?" "That would be you if I don't get that ring pronto!"), with that ring she gains power over an evil army. * The TV show Gilmore_Girls often has references to The Lord of the Rings in various episodes. * In an episode of The_Simpsons, the family goes to a dude ranch. While there they are taken on a picnic by Cookie, the ranch owner. After finishing Cookie calls "Cleany" to come clean up. Cleany's movements and mannerisms are modeled precisely after Gollum and he refers to the garbage as his "precious." Cleany was voiced by Andy_Serkis. *In Disney's sequel to The_Emperor's_New_Groove, Kronk's_New_Groove, Yzma causes people in a retirement home to become addicted to a "youth potion" that is actually green water. When Kronk buys out the retirement home, Rudy (the old man that Emperor Kuzco had thrown out the window in the first movie) comes and begs for a spot. When Kronk takes out the "potion," Rudy jumps up and takes it out of his hand and then bends his back, rubbing the potion. Imitating Gollum, he then said, "My precious...Kronk just wants it all for himself!" * In an episode of Family_Guy, Stewie is at the park. When he sees another kid at the jungle gym Stewie pushes the kid on the ground and says "Cry, cry like Sauron when he lost his contacts." The scene then shifts to a cutaway showing the Eye of Sauron frantically searching for his lost contact. * On another episode of Family_Guy, there is a scene that also parodies the movie Poltergeist as well as The Lord of the Rings. Chris is thrown from his bedroom window into the clutches of a living tree. The scene eventually parodies the epic confrontation between Gandalf and the Balrog as seen in The Lord of the Rings when Herbert the Creepy Old Pedophile shows up to save Chris. Herbert recites the film trilogy Gandalf's line, "You shall not pass!". * In the episode "Whoever Did This" of The_Sopranos, two children play with bows and arrows while quoting lines from The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring. As a result, one of the children (the son of capo Ralphie Cifareto) is fatally wounded by an arrow to the chest. * In the episode "Two Birds of a Feather" of Magnum,_P.I., a scene showing Magnum and his friends during the Vietnam War, his team uses the codename "Frodo" while trying to contact "Gandalf" to get air support. * In the show Odd_Job_Jack, episode 2.02 (Lord of the Three Ring Binder) spoofs The Lord of the Rings, with Jack as Frodo (and Déagol, when Jack was in his College years). * The episode "D & DD" of the animated series Dexter's_Laboratory spoofs Dungeons and Dragons in general (even mentioning a warrior called "Gygax"), but inserts references to Middle-earth. Dexter is forced to play as "Hodo the Furry-footed Burrower", a hobbit/halfling whose name is possibly a combination of "Hobbit" and "Frodo". * Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report has made several references to both The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth and Dungeons and Dragons on his show. * In the movie Clerks_II, Randal equates the Lord of The Rings movies as being 3 movies about walking. The first movie is demonstrated by Randal taking an exaggerated step while blank-faced; the second by tripping and looking back and down mid-walk; the third consisting of the same walk, culminating in a gesture to remove the ring from the finger and toss it downward. Before the film was made, director Kevin_Smith had done the exact same thing during an appearance on The_Tonight_Show. * Talk show host Rush_Limbaugh once described himself as a black smoke from Mordor (as if hindering the political party considered left of center). * In the Stargate_Atlantis episode "Critical Mass", Dr. Bill Lee uses the lighting of the beacons of Gondor to explain his idea of relaying a message to Atlantis. * In the Foster's_Home_for_Imaginary_Friends episode "Partying is Such Sweet Soiree", when Mac goes on a sugar-high rampage, he pets sugar-related objects and says, "My precious..." immitating Gollum. * An episode of MADtv did a parody of Lord of the Rings known as "Lords of the Bling" where Bill_Cosby played Gandalf and said, "We have to take the ring to Mordor, by the MotoPhoto!" Frodo was now Froho. * In the W.I.T.C.H. episode "G is for Garbage", when Irma and Blunk go to Blunk's hideout, Blunk says, "My precious..." while loving his trash, and he even sounds like Gollum. ===Music=== * The_Beatles' song "She_Said,_She_Said" includes a passing reference to The Lord of the Rings, and writer John_Lennon was known to have been a fan of them. During the song's fade-out, Lennon can be heard singing a series of seemingly nonsensical sounds; these phrases are either a Lennon pre-taped vocal played backwards, or Lennon imitating the sound of a reverse-tape voice. At the start of the fade-out Lennon can clearly be heard chanting the words "Ash Nazg", the first two words of the Invocation engraved on the Ring_of_Power. * Leonard_Nimoy's music: "The_Ballad_of_Bilbo_Baggins" (1968) is based on The_Hobbit. * Tom_Rapp set most of the verse of the One Ring ("Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky...") to music as "Ring Thing" in Pearls Before Swine's second album, Balaklava (1968). * Led_Zeppelin's music: "Ramble_On" (1969) refers to Gollum and Mordor, "Misty_Mountain_Hop" (1971) is named after Tolkien's Misty_Mountains, and "The_Battle_of_Evermore" (1971) is an actual allegory from the "Battle_of_the_Pelennor_Fields" from The Return of the King; while "Over the Hills and Far Away" (1973) refers to "The Hobbit". * Swedish keyboard player Bo_Hansson recorded an entire Concept_album titled The Lord of the Rings in 1972, which was performed mostly on electronic keyboard instruments. *Australian_jazz musician and composer John_Sangster undertook an ambitious three-volume jazz interpretation of the trilogy in the late 1970s, using most of the best Australian jazz musicians of the time as session players * Genesis' song "Stagnation" (from Trespass, 1970) was about Gollum. The most direct references being "And I will wait for ever, beside the silent mirror. And fish for bitter minnows amongst the weeds and slimy water." and "To take all the dust and the dirt from my throat, To wash out the filth that is deep in my guts." * Rush has a song called "Rivendell" (1975) on their Fly_by_Night album, and a song called "The Necromancer" on their "Caress_of_Steel' album * Styx has a song called "Lords of the Ring" on their Pieces_of_Eight album (1978). * Sally_Oldfield has a group of songs called "Songs of the Quendi" on her Water_Bearer album (1978, Bronze Records Ltd.). * The Austrian musician Gandalf (Heinz Stobl) chose his name with reference to the hobbits' wizard friend. He has composed several pieces of music which deal with themes and characters originating from The Lord of the Rings, some of which can be found on his second album, Visions (1981). * Johan_de_Meij’s first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy. The symphony consists of five separate movements, each illustrating a personage or an important episode from the series. The symphony was written in the period between March 1984 and December 1987, and had its première in Brussels on 15th March 1988. 

   The movements are:
   I. GANDALF (The Wizard)
   II. LOTHLORIEN (The Elvenwood)
   III. GOLLUM (Sméagol)
   IV. JOURNEY IN THE DARK
   a. The Mines of Moria
   b. The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm
   V. HOBBITS
  • The French singer Jacques_Higelin is inspired by Tom_Bombadil in his song Tom Bombadilom, released on the album Tombé du ciel in 1988. * The German power metal band Blind_Guardian has a song called "Lord of the Rings" on the album Tales_from_the_Twilight_World (1991). On their Somewhere_far_beyond (1992) there is a song called In the Forest - The Hobbit. They also released an album based on The Silmarillon called Nightfall_in_Middle-Earth (1998), including songs like The Curse of Fëanor, and Into The Storm, retelling the struggle Middle-earth endured when the Two_Trees were destroyed. Some of their other works also contain references to Tolkien's creations. * Enya recorded the song "Lothlórien" in 1991 and also performed the songs "May It Be" and "Aníron" for the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's film of The Fellowship of the Ring. * Some songs by the Celtic_metal band Cruachan, such as "The Fall of Gondolin" (1992), have been inspired by The Lord of the Rings. * The progressive rock group Glass_Hammer has numerous Tolkien-influenced songs, including "Nimrodel", and a CD entitled Journey of the Dúnadan (1993) which is a loose interpretation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and a CD entitled The Middle-earth Album (2001) which contains several songs recorded "live at the Prancing Pony in Bree". * The Finnish musicians Nightwish have a song called "Elvenpath" on their album Angels Fall First (1997) which features a Lord of the Rings sample. They also have references to Tolkien's works in their song Wishmaster, released on the album of the same name, in 2001, including Elbereth and Lorien. They also recorded with the London_Philharmonic_Orchestra for their album Once released in 2004. * The Tolkien_Ensemble composed original music to all songs and poems in The Lord of the Rings, publishing 4 CDs in total over a period of 8 years, as well as a compilation album in 2006, ordering their songs as they appear in the books. Their work is approved by the Tolkien_Estate. * The group Nickel_Creek has a song called "The House of Tom Bombadil" (Nickel Creek, 2000). * The Brobdingnagian_Bards have named one of their tracks "Tolkien" (2001), and the remix "The Lord of the Rings". * The Spanish Metal band Lórien, named after the forest Lothlórien in the novel, released an album in 2002 entitled Secrets of the Eldar with such songs as "The Voice of Saruman". * Alan_Horvath started writing the songs for The 'Rings Project (2004) in 1972. * The music CD "Journey of the Ring" (2005) features an hour of music inspired by Tolkien's novel. The music follows the story chapter by chapter. Called "the unofficial sound track to the books" by fans. http://www.cdbaby.com/all/peters * Australian band Soundestiny released the album 'Shadow Rising' in 2004; this was inspired by The Lord of The Rings, but made no actual mentions of Tolkien character-names or place-names. The CD is Part One of a projected Two-album 'RingLord' concept, the second album being 'Winds of Change' intended for release in 2006. * Many metal bands, especially Black_metal bands have taken their band name from The Lord of the Rings. Typically the names of evil places and characters are taken. Examples are Burzum (formerly known as Uruk-Hai), Darkthrone, Gorgoroth, Mordor, Sauron. There are also various metal bands owing their names to Tolkien's fictional languages, such as Aglarond (Mexico), Akallabêth (Sweden), Amon Amarth (Sweden), Almáriel (Russia), Amon Din (Serbia), Anarion (Australia), Arda (Austria), Avatar (Belgium), Azaghal (Finland), Azrael (Spain), Cirith Gorgor (Netherlands), Cirith Ungol (US), Dol Amroth (Greece), Izengard (India), Fangorn (Germany) and many more. * The Swedish New Frontier band Machinae_Supremacy uses a blend of two samples, one from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring that features Australian actor Hugo_Weaving, the other from The_Matrix (which has the same actor in it), as the introduction to their song 'Hybrid' (the same song also features sounds from a SidStation, a synthesizer that re-creates original C64 sounds). * The symphonic rock band Marillion was named after the Silmarillion * British stoner rock band Orange_Goblin has tracks on their album Frequencies_From_Planet_Ten named "Lothlorien" and "Saruman's Wish", after the Elven forest and the evil wizard in The Lord of the Rings. * All songs by the Finnish metal band Battlelore are based on Middle Earth. * Almost all songs by Austrian Black_metal bands Summoning and Rivendell are based on Middle Earth. * Prog Hard-core band The_Fall_Of_Troy have a song on their eponymously named debut album titled "The March Of The Ents" * Speed Metal band Running_Wild has a song entitled "Mordor". * There was an early heavy metal band in Lousiana named Shadowfax after Gandalf's steed in The Lord of the Rings. *Prog-rock keyboard player Rick_Wakeman has an album entitled "Songs_of_Middle_Earth:_Inspired_by_The_Lord_of_the_Rings - which is a re-issue of previously recorded material." * The Progressive_rock band Pink Floyd has a song called "The Gnome," which is about the race of Hobbits. * The new age artist David_Arkenstone has an album entitled Music_Inspired_by_Middle_Earth. Also, the name "Arkenstone" was taken from The_Hobbit. * Steve_Peregrin_Took (born Stephen Ross Porter) of British rock band T. Rex took his name from the hobbit Peregrin_Took (better known as Pippin) in Lord_of_the_Rings. * Progressive rock band Camel recorded the track "Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider" with obvious references to The_Lord_of_the_Rings, for their album "Mirage". ===Literature=== * S.M._Stirling's characters in Dies the Fire and its sequels include a young woman who is obsessed with the works of Tolkien, and ends up founding a military group known as the "Dunedain Rangers." The villain of the trilogy also refers to the trilogy, using Sauron's emblem of the Lidless_Eye as the flag of the new nation he founds. * Terry_Pratchett's novel Witches_Abroad features an encounter with a Gollum-like creature, which jumps on to the main character's boat and proclaims "It'ssss my birthday." Granny_Weatherwax then hits the creature with an oar, before quipping "'Orrible little bugger." * There are various references to The Lord of the Rings, e.g. to the Ents, in The Talisman (1984), a novel by Stephen_King and Peter_Straub. There are also references to The Lord of the Rings in several of Stephen King's other novels (e.g. Insomnia, The Stand, etc.). This is most notable in his fantasy series The_Dark_Tower, which is based on the Robert_Browning poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, but severely influenced by Lord of the Rings. * The modern-era hero in Neal_Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (1999) views himself as a dwarf, his grandfather the Cryptanalyst as an elf, an ex-Navy Seal as one of the race of Men, and refers to his nemesis (a psychotic lawyer) as "Gollum". He recognizes Enoch the Red as a wizard and, true to form, Enoch appears in the Baroque_Cycle as well. * In Matthew_Reilly's novel Seven_Ancient_Wonders a character uses imagery from The Lord of the Rings to warn her comrades that their base has been taken over, telling them that their return is like Gimli's return to Moria. * Robert_Jordan has an inn called "The Nine Rings" in The_Great_Hunt, and when Rand reads the sign in front of the inn, the book states, 'Rand swung down with a smile and tied Red to one of the hitching posts out front. "The Nine Rings" had been one of his favorite adventure stories when he was a boy; he supposed it still was.' * In the Harry_Potter series, several people are named after places or people in the Lord of the Rings, examples are a protrait in the Headmaster's Office, called Everard Proudfoot, and an author named Bathilda Bagshot, in which Bagshot Row is the place where Bag End is located. ===Games=== ====Computer and video games====
    Main article: Middle-earth in video games
    * In the MMORPG RuneScape, there is an inn called "The Dancing Donkey", which is a spoof of the Prancing Pony. ====Other games==== *Several games have been based directly on The Lord of the Rings and related works, including, amongst many, SPI's War of the Ring (1977), Iron_Crown_Enterprises' (ICE's) Middle-earth_Role_Playing game (MERP, 1982-1999) and Middle-earth_Collectible_Card_Game (MECCG, 1995-1999), the Lord of the Rings series of board games by Reiner_Knizia (2000 onward), a variant of Risk (2002) as well as The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Trading_Card_Game (2001) made by Decipher. *The Lord of the Rings books were one of the main original inspirations for the Dungeons_&_Dragons Role-playing_game, and hence continue to be a major influence on the entire field of role-playing and computer games having fantasy epic themes. * The Wargames Research Group set of fantasy miniatures rules, Hordes_of_the_Things (HotT), was first published in 1991. * Some of the Games_Workshop's Warhammer factions relate to those found in Tolkien's writings. * In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, one of the human male's jokes is a joking description of The Lord of The Rings, except the One Ring is replaced by a bracelet and instead of Hobbits the main character is a gnome. ==Satire and parody based on The Lord of the Rings== * An internet-based Flash_animation community produced Lord of the Clocks, a short animated parody. * An independent film company in South Carolina released this treatment as a college humor project. * A soft core Porn comedy entitled "Lord_of_the_G-Strings". * The Harvard_Lampoon satire Bored_of_the_Rings, and its prequel The_Soddit. * A little-known BBC Radio series, Hordes_of_the_Things (1980) attempted to parody heroic fantasy in the style of The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy. * A German resynchronization of the Fellowship's first twenty minutes, called Lord of the Weed - Sinnlos in Mittelerde ("Senseless in Middle-earth"), portrays the characters as highly drug addicted. * Quickbeam and Bombadil, the Lords of the Rhymes, mix Tolkien's fantasy world with hip-hop. * Two New York City based authors, Jessica and Chris, parody Tolkien's work in combination with Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer in Once More With Hobbits. * Several former members of Mystery_Science_Theater_3000 created Edward the Less which parodies the trilogy. * The first chapter of The Woad To Wuin by Peter_David is entitled "Lord of the Thing". * The Lord Of The... whatever, a "transcribed electronic text version", written by the Tolkien fans of the rec.arts.books.tolkien newsgroup as a reply to those who ask where can they download an electronic copy of the book. It has lots of fan in-jokes, like whether Balrogs have wings or not, a long-standing debate in the Tolkien fandom. * Flight_of_the_Conchords claim that their parody Frodo was rejected as a theme song for Peter Jackson's movies. Incidentally, Bret McKenzie (one half of the band) played an elf in the Fellowship, and his character (now known as Figwit) has become an unusual web celebrity, attracting fan sites and even a hate site. * The Ring Thing, a Swiss parody of Peter Jackson's films. However it has received mixed reviews. * MADtv spoofed the series with The Lords of the Bling, with various actors/actresses portraying characters as Gandalf, Frodo, Legolas, etc. * Kingdom O' Magic, by Fergus McNeill. He became famous during the eighties for games such as Bored of the Rings (influenced by, but not adapted from, the Harvard Lampoon book) and The Boggit. * Why can't they just lose the ring in the sink?, Humour Columnist Dave_Barry's satire. * Dead Ringers, BBC Radio/TV satirical comedy show regularly features Lord of the Rings-themed sketches, usually with the characters of Gandalf, Saruman and Frodo. * Bobo, a very popular Serbian voice-over video on scene from the first film, which features Boromir and Frodo as gay lovers. It spawned many other voice-overs. * British Comedy duo French_&_Saunders have also satired and spoofed in detail Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring in a BBC 2002 Easter Special entitled "The Egg". * A parody entitled Teh_l0rd_of_teh_Ringz0r has done the rounds of bulletin boards systems. Based on the Counter-Strike indebted "1337_speak" it retells scenes, primarily from the Peter Jackson films, in the style of a '1337 hax0r' or online gamer. * A Spanish voice-over video of Gollum debating about which is the best football (soccer) video game. * One Man Lord of the Rings A one man show by Charles_Ross, reciting and parodying the three films in an hour. *In another episode of The_Simpsons, Principal_Skinner announced to Springfield Elementary School that they are going to have a school medieval festival. Class bully Nelson excitedly asks, "You mean like The Lord of the Rings?!", and Skinner replies, "No! Nothing like The Lord of the Rings!" Note that readers dispute whether or not Middle-earth is medieval; the medieval look of the film trilogy is due to concept designer and book illustrator John_Howe. * REC Studios' Fellowship of the Ring A parody starring four people portraying multiple characters each and condensing the first third of the story to under a quarter of an hour. * MTV produced the Lord_of_the_Piercing, a parody with Sarah_Michelle_Gellar about the Council_of_Elrond, in which Frodo uses the One_Ring in a piercing. The 4 minute episode comes as a hidden extra in the first DVD of the 4-disc set of The Fellowship of the Ring. * Fellowship! - The Musical Parody of "The Fellowship of the Ring", a musical stage production featuring nine performers each playing multiple characters. *A Russified version of the film trilogy exists, featuring a voice-over translation of all 3 films. The author of the opus is a lieutenant of police by the name of Dmitri_Puchkov; unsurprisingly, his "translation" re-imagines the story as one of cops and robbers, oligarchs and the FSB (ex-KGB) chasing each other through the land of Honduras (the name of that particular country has in Russian peculiar connotations of being "a very silly place off the edge of the world"). The Ring's significance is now not its inherent evil but its status as stolen property sought by its rightful (and horribly demented and criminal) owner, who raises in his native Mordovia vast Nazi-like armies (complete with German accents, courtesy of the "translator") to reclaim it. The translation infuses the films with countless Russian pop culture jokes and allusions to Soviet anecdotes, movies, books and historical personages: for example, Legolas and Gimli speak in Estonian and Georgian accents respectively; Théoden becomes Boris_Yeltsin and his affliction the consequence of alcoholism; and Gandalf is а Major in the Honduras police force. "Goblin" also put together a brand new parody soundtrack for the movies, featuring dozens of songs ranging from modern pop like Tatu, Leningad and Rammstein to old Soviet Communist anthems, with some songs by revered artists like Vladimir_Vysotsky and Viktor_Tsoj sprinkled in. There are also some video jokes, such as the practically seamless addition of sunglasses to Lord Elrond (who, in this version, was Agent Smith in disguise) and the brief pan to gigantic statues of the South Park children done in white marble in Denethor's halls. Commonly known as "Goblin's_Translation", the parody established its author as a household name in Russia. * Rove_McManus and Peter_Helliar had a short sketch on Rove_Live of them dressed up as Frodo and Sam, calling each other's names out. * A critique of the World_Trade_Organization parodying The Lord of the Rings entitled The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_of_Free_Trade is downloadable from San_Francisco Indymedia http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/ringoffreetrade.mov *In the MMORPG Kingdom_of_Loathing, there is an adventure in the Itznotyerzitz Mine that has many references to the Mine from The Fellowship of the Ring, such as "Speak 'Friend', and enter" changed to "Speak, Frat Boy, and enter." * The Sprite Comic Neglected_Mario_Characters contains an adventure entitled "The Lord of the Wings," which is loosely based on the plot of The Lord of the Rings. *The All Saved Freak Band has an album called "For Christians, Elves, and Lovers," memorializing Tolkien's death. They have one song called "Mordor." * On albinoblacksheep.com there is a Lord of the Rings rap title "The Towers are da Playas" including Orcs and Gollum. It is made using Flash. * Big_Idea's VeggieTales released a video entitled "Lord_of_the_Beans" with plot, music and character similarities to The Lord of the Rings. * Poorly translated (Engrish) captions on Asian bootlegs led to articles on Fellowship of the Ring, and The Two Towers.

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