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x Bilbo Baggins Bilbo LOTR Hobbit    
Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist of The Hobbit and also makes a few appearances in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings. The story of The Hobbit featuring Bilbo is also retold from a different...
x Frodo Baggins 1980Frodo Hobbit Primula Brandybuck  
Frodo Baggins is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He is a principal protagonist of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He is also mentioned in The Silmarillion. He was a hobbit of the Shire who inherited Sauron's Ring from Bilbo...
Drogo Baggins
x Shrek Shrek Ogre    
Shrek is a fictional character from the children's book Shrek! and the Shrek films. He is the main protagonist of the book and the films. Shrek is a large, green, physically intimidating ogre with a Scottish accent. Although his background is...
x Lucky Lucky the Leprechaun Leprechaun      
x Nezamysl        
Nezamysl was the first of the seven Bohemian mythical princes between the (also mythical) founder of the Přemyslid dynasty Přemysl the Ploughman and the first historical prince Bořivoj. The names of the princes were first recorded in Cosmas...
x Mnata Cosmas-Chronica Boemorum      
Mnata was the second of the seven Bohemian mythical princes between the (also mythical) founder of the Přemyslid dynasty Přemysl, the Ploughman and the first historical prince Bořivoj. The names of the princes were first recorded in Cosmas chronicle...
x Vojen        
Vojen was the third of the seven Bohemian mythical princes between the (also mythical) founder of the Přemyslid dynasty Přemysl the Ploughman and the first historical prince Bořivoj. The names of the princes were first recorded in Cosmas chronicle...
x Vnislav        
Vnislav was the fourth of the seven Bohemian mythical princes between the (also mythical) founder of the Přemyslid dynasty Přemysl the Ploughman and the first historical prince Bořivoj. The names of the princes were first recorded in Cosmas...
x Křesomysl        
Křesomysl was the fifth of the seven Bohemian mythical princes between the (also mythical) founder of the Přemyslid dynasty Přemysl the Ploughman and the first historical prince Bořivoj. The names of the princes were first recorded in Cosmas...
x Genie Genie Genie    
The Genie is a fictional character and a protagonist from the Disney animated features canon movie Aladdin, as well as related series and sequels. He was portrayed by Robin Williams in the first film, though the role was later taken over by Dan...
x Count Dracula Four actors who have played Dracula - Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella and Gary Oldman. Vampire    
Count Dracula is a fictional character, the titular antagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Some aspects of his character may have been inspired by the 15th century Romanian voivode, Vlad III the Impaler. Under Irish copyright...
x Aello   Harpy    
Aello in Greek mythology was one of the Harpy sisters who would abduct people and torture them on their way to Tartarus. Her names are: In addition, Aeolus was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. She is sometimes confused with Aella the...
x Podarge   Harpy    
In Greek mythology, Podarge (English translation: "fleet-foot") referred to several different beings.
x Ephialtes   Gigantes    
Gaea, incensed by the imprisonment of the Titans in Tartarus by the Olympians, incited the Gigantes to rise up in arms against them, end their reign, and restore the Titans' rule. Led on by Alcyoneus and Porphyrion, they tested the strength of the...
x Otus   Gigantes    
Gaea, incensed by the imprisonment of the Titans in Tartarus by the Olympians, incited the Gigantes to rise up in arms against them, end their reign, and restore the Titans' rule. Led on by Alcyoneus and Porphyrion, they tested the strength of the...
x Cerberus Cerberus - Watercolour by William Blake Multi-headed dog Typhon  
Cerberus, (pronounced /ˈsər-b(ə-)rəs/; Greek form: Κέρβερος, pronounced [ˈkerberos]) in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound (usually three-headed) which guards the gates of Hades, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from...
Echidna Orthrus
x Orthrus Orthos Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2620 Multi-headed dog   Cerberus
In Greek mythology, Orthrus (also called Orthros, Orthos, Latinized as Orthus) was a two-headed dog and a doublet ("brother") of Cerberus, both whelped by the chthonic monster Echidna by Typhon. He was owned by the three-bodied Titan, Geryon....
x Typhon Zeus Typhon Staatliche Antikensammlungen 596      
Typhon (ancient Greek: Τυφῶν, Tuphōn), also Typheus/Typhoeus (Τυφωεύς, Tuphōeus), Typhaon (Τυφάων, Tuphaōn) or Typhos (Τυφώς, Tuphōs) is the final son of Gaia, fathered by Tartarus, and is the most deadly monster of Greek mythology. Typhon attempts...
x Echidna Chimere   Ceto  
In the most ancient layers of Greek mythology, Echidna (Greek: Ἔχιδνα, ekhis, ἔχις, meaning "she viper") was called the "Mother of All Monsters". Echidna was described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate...
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x Drogo Baggins          
x Níðhöggr Nidhogg Norse dragon    
In Norse mythology, Níðhöggr (Malice Striker, often anglicized Nidhogg) is a dragon who eats the roots of the World Tree, Yggdrasill. According to the Gylfaginning part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Níðhöggr or "Nidhogg Nagar" is a being which...
x Ratatosk AM 738 4to Ratatoskr Mythical squirrel    
In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr (Old Norse, generally considered "drill-tooth" or "bore-tooth") is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the unnamed eagle, perched atop Yggdrasil, and the wyrm Níðhöggr, who...
x Jörmungandr Thor and Hymir Midgard Serpent Angrboda  
Jörmungandr (pronounced [ˈjœrmuŋɡandr], mostly known as Jormundgand, the Midgard Serpent, Midgårdsormen, or World Serpent, is, in Norse mythology, a sea serpent, and the middle child of the giantess Angrboða and the god Loki. According to the Prose...
Loki
x Angrboda Loke finner Gullveigs hjärta, John Bauer      
In Norse mythology, Angrboða (Old Norse "the one who brings grief" or "she-who-offers-sorrow") is a female jötunn. In the Poetic Edda, Angrboða is mentioned only in Völuspá hin skamma (found in Hyndluljóð) as the mother of Fenrir by Loki. However,...
x Loki Processed SAM loki Jotun Fárbauti Byleist
In Norse mythology, Loki (or Loke) is a god or jötunn (or both). Loki's relation with the gods varies by source. Loki assists the gods, and sometimes causes problems for them. Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form...
Laufey Helblindi
x Sigyn        
Sigyn (Old Norse "victorious girl-friend") is a goddess and wife of Loki in Norse mythology. Sigyn is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by...
x Fárbauti        
In Norse mythology, Fárbauti ("cruel-striker") was the father of Loki, Byleist and Helbindi with his wife Laufey or Nal.
x Laufey        
In Norse mythology, Laufey or Nál is, with Fárbauti, the mother of Loki, Helblindi and Býleistr. She is otherwise unknown. Her name means "leaf island" and is a kenning for a tree.
x Byleist       Loki
Býleistr ('bee-lightning' sometimes anglicized Byleist) is the brother of Loki in Norse Mythology. Nothing is known about him, apart from this kinship. Snorri Sturluson states in his Gylfaginning (34) that "[Loki]'s brothers are Býleistr and...
x Helblindi       Loki
In Norse Mythology, Helblindi ("Hel-blinder" or "All-blind") is a jötunn, brother of Loki and Býleistr and son of Fárbauti ("cruel-striker") and his wife Laufey. Helblindi is also a kenning used to describe Odin.
x Ægir Daugthers of Ægir and Rán Norse sea gods    
Ægir (Old Norse "sea") is a jötunn and a king of the sea in Norse mythology. He seems to be a personification of the power of the ocean. He was also known for hosting elaborate parties for the gods. In Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál, Ægir is...
Jotun
x Ceto Ceto      
In ancient Greek, the word ketos (Greek: Κῆτος, Kētos, plural cetea Greek: κήτεα) - Latinized as cetus - denotes a large fish, a whale, or a sea monster. The sea monsters slain by Perseus and Heracles were each called a cetus by ancient sources. The...
x Tartarus Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attic black-figure amphora, ca. 530 BC.      
In classic mythology, below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros (Greek Τάρταρος, deep place). It is a deep, gloomy place, a pit, or an abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides beneath the underworld. In the...
x Phorcys Phorcys and Ceto, Mosaic, Late Roman, Bardo Museum, Tunis, Tunisia      
In Greek mythology, Phorcys (also Phorkys, from Greek: Φόρκυς), a primordial sea god, generally cited (first in Hesiod) as the son of Pontus and Gaia. According to the Orphic hymns, Phorcys, Cronos and Rhea were the eldest offspring of Oceanus and...
x Chrysaor pics22.gif      
In Greek mythology, Chrysaor (Greek: Χρυσάωρ, Khrusaōr; English translation: "He who has a golden armament"), the brother of Pegasus, was often depicted as a young man, the son of Poseidon and Medusa. However, Chrysaor is sometimes said to be a...
x Callirrhoe   Naiad Oceanus  
In Greek mythology, Callirrhoe (often written Callirrhoë) was a naiad. She was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She had three husbands, Chrysaor, Neilus and Poseidon. She was one of the three ancestors of the Tyrians, along with Abarbarea and...
Tethys
x Gaia Gaia steps out of her chariot - detail of a sarcophagus in Glyptotheck in Munich      
Gaia (pronounced /ˈɡeɪ.ə/ or /ˈɡaɪ.ə/; "land" or "earth", from the Ancient Greek Γαῖα; also Gæa or Gea (Koine and Modern Greek Γῆ) is the primal Greek goddess personifying the Earth. Gaia is a primordial deity in the Ancient Greek pantheon and...
x Oceanus Pergamon Museum Berlin 2007034      
Oceanus (Greek: Ὠκεανός, lit. "ocean") was believed to be the world-ocean in classical antiquity, which the ancient Romans and Greeks considered to be an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Okeanos was the ocean-stream at the...
x Tethys Tethys      
In Greek mythology, Tethys (Greek Τηθύς), daughter of Uranus and Gaia was an archaic Titaness and aquatic sea goddess, invoked in classical Greek poetry but no longer venerated in cult. Tethys was both sister and wife of Oceanus. She was mother of...
x Poseidon Neptune reigns in the city of Bristol      
In Greek mythology, Poseidon (Greek: Ποσειδῶν; Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods...
x Neilus        
In Greek mythology, Neilus was a husband of the naiad Callirrhoe and the father of Chione.
x Tisiphone   Erinyes Uranus Megaera
Tisiphone (Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, "avenging murder") is the name of two figures in Greek mythology. Tisiphone was one of the Erinyes or Furies, and sister of Alecto and Megaera. She was the one who punished crimes of murder: parricide, fratricide...
Nyx Alecto
x Alecto     Nyx Tisiphone
Alecto (Ancient Greek: Ἀληκτώ, English translation: "the implacable") is one of the Erinyes in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Gaea fertilized by the blood spilled from Uranus when Cronus castrated him. She is the...
Uranus Megaera
x Megaera     Uranus Tisiphone
Megaera (Ancient Greek: Μέγαιρα, English translation: "the jealous one") is one of the Erinyes in Greek mythology. She is the cause of jealousy and envy, and punishes people who commit crimes, especially marital infidelity. Like her sisters Alecto...
Nyx Alecto
x Uranus The Mutiliation of Uranus by Saturn      
Uranus (pronounced /ˈjʊərənəs, jʊˈreɪnəs/) is the Latinized form of Ouranos (Οὐρανός), the Greek word for sky. In Greek mythology Ouranos or Father Sky, is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth (Hesiod, Theogony). Uranus and Gaia...
x Nyx Nyx, goddess of the night (William-Adolphe Bouguereau - La Nuit (1883))      
In Greek mythology, Nyx (Νύξ, Nox in Roman translation) was the primordial goddess of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother of personified gods such as Hypnos (sleep) and Thánatos (death)....
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