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Brocéliande serves as the location of Robert Holdstock's fantasy novel Merlin's Wood. The television series Once Upon a Time features Brocéliande, therein also known as the "Forest of Eternal Night", in the season 5 episode " Siege Perilous " as the location of a magical toadstool needed for a potion to free the sorcerer Merlin from his ...
Drapé - (France) Ghostly horse monster who finds and spirits away children wandering at night to an unknown location, never to be seen again. Gytrash- (english) shapeshifting spirit usually taking the form of a horse, mule or other animal. Opposite of a will o the wisp, as it appears to the lost and leads people back to where they want to be.
Relic of the tooth of the Buddha, venerated in Sri Lanka as a cetiya "relic" of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Śarīra, a generic term referring to Buddhist relics. In Buddhism, relics of the Buddha and various sages are venerated. After the Buddha's death, his remains were divided into eight portions.
Valinor (Quenya: Land of the Valar) or the Blessed Realm is a fictional location in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the home of the immortal Valar on the continent of Aman, far to the west of Middle-earth; he used the name Aman mainly to mean Valinor. It includes Eldamar, the land of the Elves, who as immortals are permitted to live in Valinor.
Rivendell was founded in the Second Age after the dark lord Sauron's destruction of the Elvish land of Eregion. Rivendell remained as the only Elven settlement in eastern Eriador; Gil-galad gave Elrond the Ring Vilya , providing him with the power to protect Rivendell and slow the passage of time in its hidden valley: indeed, Rivendell kept its ...
[T 8] Before it was darkened by evil, it had been called Greenwood the Great. [T 9] After the publication of the maps in The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote a correction stating "Mirkwood is too small on map it must be 300 miles across" from east to west, [8] but the maps were never altered to reflect this. On the published maps Mirkwood was ...
The dark magic of the knife gravely affects Frodo's well-being, threatening to turn him into a wraith, especially because its detachable point migrated in Frodo's body for more than two weeks before it could be extracted, thus causing great damage. Recurring ill effects from the wound contribute to Frodo's eventual departure to Valinor.
[2] [3] [4] They are also characterized as spirit sorts like sirens, dark beings, elves, and more. [5] Belief in their existence has likely existed for centuries, [4] and continues to this day. [6] It is a bracket term for enchanted human-like beings of the land which includes a variety of mythical races.