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

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The king and his people were unwilling to forgive this deed and Eöl was sentenced to death and cast over the Caragdûr, cursing Maeglin on his way down the cliff to his doom. Though most of the Ñoldor saw this as just, Idril was disgusted with Maeglin's act of kinslaying. This drove a rift between Idril and her kin and planted a seed of evil in the heart of Gondolin. [1] Eöl's family tree [ ]

Lord of the Dark Millennium: The Dan Abnett Collection is an anthology of short stories written by Dan Abnett. [1] Description Carpenter, Humphrey (2000). J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-618-05702-1. In the Empire's absence, the influence of the Sith eventually led to the corruption of several Jedi Knights, including Freedon Nadd, Exar Kun, and Ulic Qel-Droma. Nadd, a former prodigy from the Jedi stronghold world of Ossus, made the conscious choice to embrace the dark side of the Force and sought out knowledge from Sadow's fallen empire, eventually leading him to Sadow himself, still alive and in exile on Yavin IV. After learning from Sadow, Nadd killed him and used his Sith status and power to conquer the planet Onderon and produce a royal lineage. After Nadd's death, Exar Kun sought out Sith arts from both Nadd's spirit and that of Marka Ragnos. The latter declared Kun Dark Lord of the Sith and made Qel-Droma his apprentice. Corrupting several Jedi to their cause and allying themselves with warriors such as the Mandalorians, Kun and Qel-Droma declared war on the Galactic Republic. During a raid on the Jedi Library at Ossus, Qel-Droma dueled and killed his brother, but was captured. Qel-Droma was redeemed and was instrumental in Kun's downfall, when the latter retreated to Naga Sadow's former stronghold on Yavin IV. Tolkien was initially opposed to titles being given to each two-book volume, preferring instead the use of book titles: e.g. The Lord of the Rings: Vol. 1, The Ring Sets Out and The Ring Goes South; Vol. 2, The Treason of Isengard and The Ring Goes East; Vol. 3, The War of the Ring and The End of the Third Age. However, these individual book titles were dropped, and after pressure from his publishers, Tolkien suggested the volume titles: Vol. 1, The Shadow Grows; Vol. 2, The Ring in the Shadow; Vol. 3, The War of the Ring or The Return of the King. [55] [56]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.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (1977). Christopher Tolkien (ed.). The Silmarillion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-25730-2. For publication, the work was divided into three volumes to minimize any potential financial loss due to the high cost of type-setting and modest anticipated sales: The Fellowship of the Ring (Books I and II), The Two Towers (Books III and IV), and The Return of the King (Books V and VI plus six appendices). [49] Delays in producing appendices, maps and especially an index led to the volumes being published later than originally hoped – on 29 July 1954, on 11 November 1954 and on 20 October 1955 respectively in the United Kingdom. [50] In the United States, Houghton Mifflin published The Fellowship of the Ring on 21 October 1954, The Two Towers on 21 April 1955, and The Return of the King on 5 January 1956. [51]

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Tolkien's own cover design for The Two Towers". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 22 January 2020. Sauron (pronounced / ˈ s aʊ r ɒ n/ [T 2]) is the title character [a] and the primary antagonist, [1] through the forging of the One Ring, of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor and has the ambition of ruling the whole of Middle-earth. In the same work, he is identified as the "Necromancer" of Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. The Silmarillion describes him as the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. Tolkien noted that the Ainur, the " angelic" powers of his constructed myth, "were capable of many degrees of error and failing", but by far the worst was "the absolute Satanic rebellion and evil of Morgoth and his satellite Sauron". [T 4] Sauron appears most often as "the Eye", as if disembodied.Jones, Brian Jay (2013). Jim Henson: The Biography. Virgin Digital. ebook location 5430. Chapter 11. Fëanor was King of the Noldorian Elves and the creator of the Silmarils, three beautiful jewels containing the essence of the Two Trees of Valinor, which lit the land of the Valar (sort of like angels). He was inspired to create them after his niece Galadriel refused to give him a single strand of her hair no matter how much he begged, which suggests that Galadriel really is as wise as she seems, and that Fëanor had some very inappropriate feelings toward his niece. Melkor, who wanted the Silmarils, managed to convince Fëanor that his brother Fingolfin was planning to usurp him and steal the Silmarils. In response, Fëanor had his people start forging weapons (which had not existed beforehand) and threatened to kill his brother.

West, Richard C. (1975). "Narrative Pattern in 'The Fellowship of the Ring' ". In Lobdell, Jared (ed.). A Tolkien Compass. Open Court. p.96. ISBN 978-0-87548-303-0.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 ] Zimmer, Paul Edwin (1993). "Another Opinion of 'The Verse of J. R. R. Tolkien' ". Mythlore. 19 (2). Article 2. In the essay "Quendi and Eldar", published in The War of the Jewels, Eöl was an Avar who descended from the same clan of the Elves the Ñoldor had come from (the Tatyar), although Eöl hated his Valinorean cousins. Eöl's love for smithying and friendliness to the Dwarves is consistent with Tolkien's view of the Ñoldor, which are described as Dwarf-friends in the First and Second Ages. However, in a later writing, entitled Maeglin and published in the same volume, Tolkien said he was of the kin of Thingol. This story was inserted in the published Silmarillion as a separate chapter.