"978 and 979 to be used for ISBN numbers assigned to books, and code 977 to be assigned for use for ISSN numbers on magazines and other periodicals. Also, the ISO 3166 country code ""ZZ"" is reserved as a fictional country code. Fictional countries appear commonly in stories of early science fiction (or scientific romance). Such countries supposedly form part of the normal Earth landscape although not located in a normal atlas. Later similar tales often took place on fictional planets. Jonathan Swift's protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, visited various strange places. Edgar Rice Burroughs placed adventures of Tarzan in areas in"
"a Broomstick"", which he wrote for her), was shown about by her ""father"" (William Temple), found the living too coarse for his sensibilities, left her company for a ""promotion"" to London and court life, and mourned her absence for the rest of his life. Glumdalclitch Glumdalclitch is the name Gulliver gives his ""nurse"" in Book II of Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"". In Book I, Gulliver travels to the land of Lilliput. Leaving there, he travels to the land of Brobdingnag. In Lilliput, Gulliver was a giant, and in Brobdingnag, he is a dwarf, with the proportions reversed. When he comes"
"Glumdalclitch Glumdalclitch is the name Gulliver gives his ""nurse"" in Book II of Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"". In Book I, Gulliver travels to the land of Lilliput. Leaving there, he travels to the land of Brobdingnag. In Lilliput, Gulliver was a giant, and in Brobdingnag, he is a dwarf, with the proportions reversed. When he comes ashore, he is captured by a giant farmer, who perceives Gulliver only as an animal, a freak of nature resembling a man-shaped mouse. He takes Gulliver home and gives him to his nine-year-old daughter, a child ""not above forty feet high, being little for"
"Lilliput and Blefuscu Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel wide. Both are inhabited by tiny people who are about . Both kingdoms are empires, i.e. realms ruled by a self-styled emperor. The capital of Lilliput is Mildendo. In some pictures, the islands are arranged like an egg, as a reference to their egg-dominated histories and cultures. Swift gives the location of Lilliput and Blefuscu as Latitude 30°2′S, to the"
"elf of Gondolin would later betray his city to the dark lord Morgoth. Randel Helms has compared Felagund's role in Beren's quest to that of Arthur when he is called upon by Culhwch. ""In both tales... the young men enlist the aid of a great king."" Finrod Felagund Finrod Felagund ( is a fictional character in the fantasy-world Middle-earth of the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. He appears in ""The Silmarillion"", the epic poem ""The Lay of Leithian"" and the Grey Annals, as well as other material. In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Finrod Felagund was a Noldorin Elf,"
"the end of the series). Gulliver later lands in the land of Brobdingnag which consists of Giants. He is shown as an exhibition by Farmer Grultrud (Ned Beatty) and his daughter Glumdalclitch (Kate Maberly) who discover him. He is sold to a lady of the royal court, who presents him to the Queen of Brobdingnag (Alfre Woodard). He is examined by the doctors who ridicule him for his size, and discusses the politics of Brobdingnag, which are different from the traditional politics of the normal kingdom of England. He eventually gains the despise of the court dwarf Grildrig (Warwick Davis),"
"vermin—than in any other of the strange countries he visited, but the people are civilised. A ""splacknuck"" is an animal about long, to which Gulliver is compared in size, although it is never explained which animal it corresponds to (probably a rodent of some sort, such as a rat). Fossil records are claimed to show that the ancestors of the Brobdingnagians were once even larger, but it is possible scholars have misidentified the fossils as human, which happened in Europe as well at the time. The King of Brobdingnag argues that the race has deteriorated. The language of Brobdingnag is"
"return trip. At the beginning of ""Rinkitink in Oz"" King Kitticut and Queen Garee, the son and daughter-in-law of the victorious king are introduced. Their son Inga is coming of age to learn the secret of the pearls, and one day Kitticut reveals their secret hiding place to Inga. The next day, a royal visitor arrives at the island: King Rinkitink of Gilgad, a jovial and pleasantly plump fellow on royal holiday, who remains on the island as Kitticut's guest for several weeks. Rinkitink's companion, other than the rowers from Gilgad, is a surly goat named Bilbil who seems to"
"telling his tale) starting back to the day of the shipwreck and the famous arrival of Gulliver to Lilliput, an island consisting of tiny people. Gulliver continues to explain the strange customs of Lilliput, such as the naming of officials by doing rituals such as the jumping over and going under a stick held by the Emperor of Lilliput (Peter O'Toole). Gulliver is then presented to the Empress of Lilliput (Phoebe Nicholls) and is asked to fight a war against the enemy country of Blefuscu. Gulliver then accepts and wins the war in order to show gratitude towards the Lilliputians."
"Finrod Felagund Finrod Felagund ( is a fictional character in the fantasy-world Middle-earth of the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. He appears in ""The Silmarillion"", the epic poem ""The Lay of Leithian"" and the Grey Annals, as well as other material. In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Finrod Felagund was a Noldorin Elf, the eldest son of Finarfin and Eärwen of Alqualondë in Aman. He was the brother of Galadriel, Angrod and Aegnor and Orodreth. He was the king of Nargothrond before his death in Middle-earth. There, the men gave him another title, Nóm, meaning ""Wise"". The name Finrod"
"isle Brobdingnag, unaware that it was inhabited by Brobdingnagians, a race of 60 foot giants. After making shore, he encounters a very kind 40 foot peasant brobdingnagian girl named Glumdalclitch (Sherry Alberoni) finds him on the shore and carries him to the castle of King Brob (Grégoire Aslan) Their law requires that all tiny people be brought to the King, who has a collection of ""tiny animals"". Gulliver is delighted to find Elizabeth, who was washed ashore following a shipwreck. The King installs the two in a dollhouse and lets Glumdalclitch look after them. The King marries Gulliver and Elizabeth."
"Glubbdubdrib Glubbdubdrib (also spelled Glubdubdrib or Glubbdubdribb in some editions) was an island of sorcerers and magicians, one of the imaginary countries visited by Lemuel Gulliver in the satire ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift. The location of Glubdubdrib is illustrated in both the text and the map at the beginning of part III of ""Gulliver's Travels"", though they are not consistent with each other. The map shows Glubdubdrib to be southwest of the port of Maldonada on the southwest coast of Luggnagg, while the text states the island is southwest of Balnibarbi, and Maldonada to be a port"
"does not say exactly how big the people of Brobdingnag are save a nine-year-old girl Glumdalclitch who teaches him the language and stands ""not above 40 feet tall, being small for her age"". In at least two cases, he states explicitly that a Brobdingnagian's eyes are ""above sixty feet"" from the ground, giving a ratio of at least eleven to one. He also states that he would ""appear as inconsiderable to this nation as a Lilliputian would be among us"", suggesting the same twelve to one ratio given for Lilliput was intended. Hailstones are almost 1,800 times as heavy as"
"Ungoliant Ungoliant is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, described as an evil spirit in the form of a spider. She is mentioned briefly in ""The Lord of the Rings"", and plays a supporting role in ""The Silmarillion"". Her origins are unclear, as Tolkien's writings do not explicitly reveal her nature, other than that she is from ""before the world"". She is one of a few instances, along with Tom Bombadil and the Cats of Queen Berúthiel, where Tolkien does not provide a clear background for an element of his fiction. ""Ungoliant"" means ""dark spider"" in Tolkien's"
"capital of Blefuscu. A modernised Lilliput is the setting of a 1958 sequel children's novel, ""Castaways in Lilliput"", by Henry Winterfeld. This book provides more geographical detail: other cities in addition to Mildendo include Plips (a major city and cathedral town), Wiggywack (a suburb of Mildendo and seat of the Island Council), Tottenham (on the west coast), and Allenbeck (at the mouth of a river on the west coast). Lilliput is said to be ruled by an Emperor, Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue. He is assisted by a first minister (who carries a white staff) and several"
"gather from the story that the serpent who killed the Queen and the mysterious lady that Rilian had pointed out to Lord Drinian on his return to the forest were probably one and the same. Glimfeather and his friend then take the children to a friend of theirs who will act as a guide on their quest to track down the lost prince. To help them on their quest they meet the gloomy but loyal Marshwiggle Puddleglum. Leaving Narnia, they journey deep into the desolate northern lands, where they encounter cold, hunger and hardship, and encounter giants as well as"
"Treebeard Treebeard (Sindarin: ""Fangorn"") is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is said to live in the ancient Forest of Fangorn and stands fourteen feet (4 m) in height. He is treelike in appearance – reminiscent of ""beech-trees or oaks"" – with leafy hair and a rigid structure. His home of Fangorn Forest lies close to Isengard, where Saruman the White resides. In ""The Two Towers"" he meets with Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took, two Hobbits of the Shire known also as Merry and Pippin. Treebeard is"
"Boldog Boldog is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, appearing in ""Lays of Beleriand"". ""Boldog he sent, but Boldog was slain:<br> strange ye were not in Boldog's train."" As told in the ""Lays of Beleriand"", Boldog, a formidable Orc Captain, by direct command of Morgoth, led a host of Orcs on a great razzia to ravage the realm of Doriath and capture Lúthien, the daughter of its King Thingol and Queen Melian, the Maia. Boldog drove his Host south over the highlands of Dorthonion and through the enchanted forest of Taur-nu-Fuin following the Orcs' Road of"
"Luggnagg is found in the book, on the occasion when Gulliver has an audience with Luggnagg's king, and is described as being very ugly and clumsy for Gulliver to pronounce. Notable among the inhabitants of Luggnagg are the struldbrugs, unfortunates who are immortal but suffer the infirmities of old age. Luggnagg Luggnagg is an island kingdom, one of the imaginary countries visited by Lemuel Gulliver in the satire ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift. The location of Luggnagg is illustrated in both the text and the map at the beginning of part III of ""Gulliver's Travels"", though they are"
"brings Gulliver home and the farmer's daughter Glumdalclitch cares for Gulliver. The giant-sized farmer treats him as a curiosity and exhibits him for money. After a while the constant shows make Gulliver sick, and the farmer sells him to the queen of the realm. Glumdalclitch (who accompanied her father while exhibiting Gulliver) is taken into the Queen of Brobdingnag's service to take care of the tiny man. Since Gulliver is too small to use their huge chairs, beds, knives and forks, the Queen of Brobdingnag commissions a small house to be built for him so that he can be carried"
"three ""glonglungs"" (about fifty four English miles) and two and a half in breadth"". Gulliver tells us that Lorbrulgrud was ""situated near the middle of that empire"" and was three thousand miles distant from the farmer's house on the coast, that the journey took ten weeks and that they ""crossed five or six rivers many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges"", and ""there was hardly a rivulet smaller than the Thames at London Bridge"". The people of Brobdingnag are described as giants who are as tall as 60 feet high and whose stride is ten yards."
"extensive literature. Lilliput, meanwhile, was divided among several petty kingdoms. The first emperor of Blefuscu attacked and subdued Lilliput, but later the Lilliputians won their independence and set up their own emperor. Winterfeld's sequel children's chapter book ""Castaways in Lilliput"" provides further details of Lilliputian history. The Emperor of Gulliver's time, Mully Ully Gue, is said to have reigned 1657–1746. (This contradicts Swift's account, in which the Emperor is only 28 years old and has reigned about seven years when Gulliver arrives in 1699.) His descendant, Alice, is the reigning Queen in the 1950s when three Australian children visit the"
"that the mice were really his attendants magically transformed. The mouse is his pregnant wife, Gwenaby, but Manawydan refuses to free her until Llwyd also releases Rhiannon and Pryderi and pledges to take no further revenge. Llwyd agrees to these terms, and turns his wife back into a beautiful woman. A character named Llwydeu ap Cilcoed appears in the early Arthurian tale ""Culhwch and Olwen"" in which he is named as one of the many knights of Arthur's court. After stealing a cauldron from Diwrnach the Irishman, Arthur and his men land at Llywdeu's house in Porth Cerddin in Dyfed."
"the fairy host to the ""síd"" where he meets a woman who tells him that what he saw was a vision of what will happen a year from now unless his mortal comrades are warned. He leaves the ""síd"" and informs Ailill of his vision who then has the Sidhe destroyed. It is unclear whether what is referred to as the ""síd"" is Oweynagat or the mound of Rathcroghan itself. However, it is from Oweynagat that various destructive creatures emerged. The Ellen Trechen was a triple headed monster that went on a rampage across the country before being killed by"
"Thranduil Thranduil is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He is a supporting character in ""The Hobbit"", where he is referred to as the Elvenking, and he figures briefly in ""The Lord of the Rings"", ""The Silmarillion"", and ""Unfinished Tales"". Tolkien describes Thranduil as having a crown made of red leaves and berries in the autumn, and wearing a similar crown of flowers in the spring. Like most of the Sindar, he would have been beardless, tall, and grey-eyed. The name ""Thranduil"" means ""vigorous spring"" in Sindarin. Thranduil was one of the Sindar, or Grey Elves."
"Light of the Two Trees, and had also received great knowledge and powers by living with the Valar and Maiar. In Exilic Quenya the Noldor did not make much use of the terms ""Calaquendi"" or ""Moriquendi"", which were rather offensive to the Sindar of Beleriand. ""Calaquendi"" became obsolete, and was used only in writings in the Parmaquesta. According to ""The Silmarillion"", Elu Thingol was not counted among the Moriquendi, although he was king of the Moriquendi of Beleriand; for he had seen the light of the Trees in Valinor. Calaquendi In the fictional universe of J. R. R. Tolkien, Calaquendi"
"Bromwich and Simon Evans, among others, who instead connect Maelwys with the historical Irish prince Máel Umai, son of Báetán mac Muirchertaig. René Bansard looked on similar legends between king Baudemagu and hagiography of Bômer alias Bohamadus in Normandy near Gorron (possibly Gorre of the Arthurian romance), honoured in several parishes. Both are guardians of the marches of realm. The grave of Bohamadus can be seen not far from Lonlay Abbey. The character is first mentioned in the 12th century in Chrétien de Troyes' ""Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart"", he is the king of Gore, a mysterious land connected"
"is unsuccessfully searched for by various parties, including by Morgan and her enchantresses, but cannot be accessed. The legendary Brocéliande is often identified as the real-life Paimpont forest in Brittany. Other purported sites of Merlin's burial include Drumelzier in Tweeddale in Scotland and Carmarthen on Ynys Enlli off the coast of Wales. Both of these locations are also associated with Merlin more generally, including in the 13th-century manuscript known as the ""Black Book of Carmarthen"" and in the local lore of Merlin's Oak in the latter case. Merlin Merlin () is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured"
"White's best examples of how different the loveless childhoods of the Orkney children were from the happy childhood of Arthur. As the children are walking on the beach after visiting St. Toirdelbach, Sir Grummor Grummursum and King Pellinore arrive on the shore in a magic barge. Along with them is a Saracen knight named Sir Palomides who has apparently befriended them between the previous book and their arrival on the Orkney islands. The trio had previously been in Flanders where Pellinore fell in love with the Queen of Flanders' daughter. The knights entered the boat and had been unable to"
"a long time past when Fergus had been a king in Ulster. Bricne related to Flidhais all the charms of Fergus while also telling her that he never met a better man than Oilill, Flidhais's husband. The next morning Bricne left Dún Flidhais and set off on the return journey to Cruachan. When he got back, he told Queen Maedbh that Flidhais's fort in Rathmorgan was the most magnificent palace he had ever visited. Fergus heard this and he lusted for Flidhais, making Maedbh a jealous woman. Bricne encouraged disquiet amongst everybody to make as much trouble as possible. Fergus"
"Ailill mac Máta. Fergus was a fine figure of a man and it did not take long for the ""shameless"" Queen Maedbh to fall hopelessly in lust with her equally promiscuous guest. Her consort, Ailill however, observed the daily infidelity and one night, in retaliation, he stole Fergus's enchanted sword from his guest's scabbard and replaced it with a wooden replica. There were always many 'guests' from various tribal factions at Cruachan for one reason or another. At the same time as Fergus was a guest there, there was another guest by the name of Bricne Nimhtheanga of whom it"
"stunning blasts of mental energies. The illithid has a bubbling, watery voice that was described by Artemis Entreri as like the sound made by a very old man with too much phlegm in his throat. Yharaskrik came to Calimport to study the sword Charon's Claw. The creature lived in the deep tunnels below Kohrin Soulez's throne room in Dallabad Oasis after pretending to be defeated by Kohrin Soulez. After Jarlaxle and Bregan D'aerthe successfully attacked Dallabad Oasis, Yharaskrik allied himself with Kimmuriel Oblodra. The creature taught Kimmuriel how to prevent Crenshinibon from controlling him, thereby making Kimmuriel an ally of"
"he remained until 1723. In chapter 4 of ""Gulliver's Travels"", Gulliver alludes to his plans to publish a treatise on the empire of Lilliput. In 1728, John Arbuthnot wrote ""An account of the state of learning in the empire of Lilliput: Together with the history and character of Bullum the Emperor's Library-Keeper""; this purported to be transcribed from Gulliver's description. Arbuthnot used this work to satirise Richard Bentley, master of Trinity College, Cambridge but also described the early history of Lilliput and Blefuscu. At one time (Gulliver is told), Blefuscu was a commonwealth and had its own language and an"