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  2. Dragons in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    [T 1] As well as "dragon", Tolkien called them "drake" (from Old English draca, in turn from Latin draco and Greek δράκων), and "worm" (from Old English wyrm, "serpent", "dragon"). [T 2] Tolkien named four dragons in his Middle-earth writings. Like the Old Norse dragon Fafnir, they are able to speak, and can be subtle of speech.

  3. Category:Television series set in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Fictional dramas or comedies, or factual docu-dramas, set in the Middle Ages (5th to the 15th century). See also the succeeding Category:Television series set in the early modern period Subcategories

  4. European dragon - Wikipedia

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    The European dragon is a legendary creature in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe.. The Roman poet Virgil in his poem Culex lines 163–201, [1] describing a shepherd battling a big constricting snake, calls it "serpens" and also "draco", showing that in his time the two words probably could mean the same thing.

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  6. Death and immortality in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien was a scholar of English literature, a philologist and medievalist interested in language and poetry from the Middle Ages, especially that of Anglo-Saxon England and Northern Europe. [1] His professional knowledge of Beowulf, telling of a pagan world but with a Christian narrator, [2] helped to shape his fictional world of ...

  7. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    A police officer must learn to adapt to the way things were done in the 1970s after being thrown back in time by an accident. The U.S. version of the series, Life on Mars, starring Jason O'Mara, aired in 2008–2009. 2006 2007 Transformers: Cybertron: The Autobot Vector Prime is a defender of space-time. 2006 2007 Day Break: Paul Zbyszewski

  8. List of dragons in literature - Wikipedia

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    Laurence Yep, Dragon series (1982–1992): Shimmer the dragon princess. Jane Yolen, The Pit Dragon Trilogy series (1982–2009): Heart's Blood and several others. Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom of Landover novels (1986): Strabo. R. A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon (1983) and Twisting the Rope (1986): Mayland Long, who used to be a Chinese dragon.

  9. Medieval Times - Wikipedia

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    Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament is an American dinner theater featuring staged medieval-style games, sword-fighting, and jousting. Medieval Times Entertainment, the holding company , is headquartered in Irving , Texas .