Crayon Shin-chan have their own version of LOTR, set in an Alternate Universe titled "Lord of the Ika-ring" note "Ika" - squid. The ring in question is a fried tempura squid ring with Kazama and Shin-Chan as stand-ins for Frodo and Sam. Their version of Aragon is notably a Gender FlippedBadass Biker. Instead of Mount Doom, their quest have them throwing the titular Ika-ring into a "Mouth of Despair" - a giant Sarlacc-like mouth meant for disposing garbage.
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Exceptionally old halflings in Delicious in Dungeon become very much like Gollum.
Jujutsu Kaisen features Anime Sam and Frodo running in a theater.
Centorea in Monster Musume wields an Anduril replica at times.
In Saint Seiya, one of Hades specters named Balron Rune has his armor modelled after the Balrogs from LOTR, whip and all.
An Omake of Slayers has Lina embroiled in the War of the Ring. Saruman fully falls from grace and becomes a balrog, but in doing so, becomes too fat-fingered to wear the Ring! Lina, for her part, ignores said evil bauble in favour of blowing things up.
The LEGO Movie: One of the film's locales is Middle Zealand, a nod to the fact that the films' outdoor scenes were filmed in New Zealand. Additionally, Gandalf (voiced by Todd Hansen) has a minor role as a Master Builder.
The Simpsons Movie: An orc is seen in the lynch mob trying to kill the Simpsons.
In Blue Iguana (2018), Cornelius tells Paul and Eddie that he was the first pick to play Frodo Baggins in 1999, but was rejected for being 6'2'' because the special effects to make him hobbit-sized were too expensive.
In The Hustle, Josephine refers to her scheme to trick men into giving her expensive engagement rings as her Lord of the Rings con.
In The Boy Who Drew Monsters, Nick tries to draw monsters like Jack Peter. One of his drawings is of a Lord of the Rings orc.
In Castle Hangnail, Edward recalls the castle being visited, centuries ago, by a tall old wizard seeking a source of magical fire to melt down a magic ring, and that he eventually ended up destroying it in "a volcano or something".
Crosstime Traffic: In The Valley-Westside War, the password for entering the secret crosstime chamber is Mellon, referencing the entrance to Moria. A character from the post-apocalyptic world is able to figure it out, though, since LOTR was published before 1967 (when the nuclear war happened), and copies still exist.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick is given several books for his summer reading, but he rents the movies based on the books instead of reading the books themselves. When he rents the movie version of The Lord of the Rings, he forgets to check the title and ends up renting a wrestling movie called "Lords of the Ring".
In Dogs Don't Talk, Emily tells Ben that she's reading The Lord of the Rings, and that she plans to see the movie after she finishes the books. Ben has seen the movie, but found it hard to follow.
In the flashback to his teen years the straitjacket that alerts Harry to Justin's intentions lies next to Harry's much-used copy of The Hobbit. Seeing it, Harry realizes he cannot exactly run off to Oz and ask another wizard for help.
Harry tries some of the same words Gandalf used to try to open the door to Moria on the entrance to the Corpsetaker's lair. And calls her a tasteless bitch for not reading Tolkien when it does not work.
While climbing down a lot of stairs, Harry gets bored and starts singing the Goblin-Town song from The Hobbit (1977). He then acts offended when the unbelievably ancientGenius Loci doesn't get it.
Harry reminds the reader that Dresdenverse goblins are not the wimpy dimwits from The Hobbit, but mutant Terminator psycho ninjas: Hannibal Lecter meets Jackie Chan.
White Night: Seeing Grey Cloak's contact, he muses that the Ringwraith look is pretty common among dark wizards. Ramirez has made the same connection.
"Backup": Thomas says Harry is like Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull.
The illusion of the Carpenters being murdered is explicitly compared to Fellowship of the Ring by Molly.
When Harry and Butters collapse a bridge to hinder Fomor forces Harry is darkly amused at getting the chance to use a quote he's always liked:
"YOU. SHALL NOT. PASS!"
March from The Eagle Tree read The Lord of the Rings as a kid. For the most part he didn't like it, as he's not a fiction fan, but he did relate to the Ents. He once attended a Halloween party dressed as an Ent and stood perfectly still the entire time.
In Even If We Break, Ever calls Finn "Fool of a Took" for trying to climb over a pile of boulders without asking for help and almost getting hurt.
In Experimental Film, Mattheuis is described as "sort of the Gimli of Canadian film studies."
If I Fall, If I Die: After Will starts going outside for the first time since he was four, he decides that he doesn't trust nature, and liked the Ents better than the real thing.
In Kaitangata Twitch, Rufus puts a piece of kitchen brush around his finger like a ring and says, "One ring to bind them all!". Meredith says that it's more like one ring to scrub them all.
In The Kingdoms of Evil, Freetrick is confrinted by a halfling wielding a magic ring, who is promptly executed by his security staff.
A secret meeting at NASA in The Martian is called "Project: Elrond" specifically because it's a secret meeting where a momentous descision will be made (and everyone there's a massive nerd except one person). Incidentally, it concerns saving all life on Mars (to whit, one Mark Watney, astronaut) whereas the Council of Elrond was to do with saving all life on Middle-Earth.
Selfish Pigs shows a pig shoving a boulder onto Gollum so he can steal the Ring.
Chloe from Stim owns a thick paperback copy of Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings.
The scene where Tailchaser meets Queen Sunback in Tailchaser's Song is a parody of when Galadriel is first met.
In The Tuning Station, Ted remembers pretending as a child that a tree stump was the bridge at Moria or the path through Mirkwood.
In the Underdogs novel Acceleration, teen assassin Oliver Roth remembers watching the movies. He found them to be too long and too full of sappy do-gooders, but it was interesting to watch Frodo's personality collapse as the Ring's influence on him grew stronger.
In Unidentified Suburban Object, the seventh graders are each assigned a country to do a report on. One kid is excited to get New Zealand because of The Hobbit.
In Will Save the Galaxy for Food, Not-Mckewan starts to feel "Like a hobbit whose friend won't throw that plying ring into Mt. Doom" when his contractor screws him over.
Savvy from You Have a Match is secretly a huge Lord of the Rings fan. She and Leo once learned Elvish together; Leo then annoyed Abby and Connie by trying to send coded messages in the language.
Are You Alone on Purpose?: Alison brings The Two Towers to read while Rabbi Roth tutors Adam, but she finds the Ring's influence on Frodo stressful to read about. When she sees that Harry has a copy of The Hobbit in his room, she gives him all three volumes of The Lord of the Rings.
Friends: In "The One Where They're Going to Party!", Ross and Chandler talk about a friend from college who was nicknamed Gandalf because he was a "party wizard". Joey asks about the nickname.
Sesame Street once parodied Lord of the Rings by having Cookie Monster as a monster named Gobble, parodying Gollum, making cookies.
Elnor from Star Trek: Picard could be transported to Middle-earth, and he would seamlessly blend into that world because he's basically an Elf (Romulans are Space Elves, after all). The media frequently compared him to Legolas because he's long-haired, Elfeminate and has an agile, graceful fighting style. Elnor's name is similar to Elrond, and in Sindarin, "Elnor" means "Star-Run." note Showrunner Michael Chabon deliberately gave the character an Elvish name◊ that is a close approximation of "Star-Trek." The Qowat Milat monastery where he grew up is an Arboreal Abode situated in a forest which looks virtually identical to Rivendell, as the foliage and the late afternoon/early evening sunlight appear to be in a perpetual autumn setting. Elnor pledging his sword to Picard's quest and joining the latter's ragtag crew is akin to Legolas joining the Fellowship of the Ring, and their respective missions are extremely dangerous with little hope of success.
Stranger Things: The name Mirkwood is straight out of The Hobbit (notLord Of The Rings).
Veronica Mars: In the second season episode "The Quick and the Wed", when Heidi, the bride-to-be, shows off her engagement ring, one of the bridesmaids comments on how large it is, and says, in her best Gollum voice, "It's ours; we wants it!"
"Not Today" by BTS (meant to be an underdog anthem) references Aragorn's Rousing Speech in The Return Of the King, down to the first lines of the song semi-quoting it:
All the underdogs in the world A day may come when we lose But it is not today Today we fight!
Burzum takes it's name from the Black Speech of Mordor. It means "Darkness".
The 2001 edition of the spanish animatronic show Cortylandia was done to promote the theatrical release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Matilda: When Miss Honey is assessing her reading ability, Matilda gives a long list of books she has read recently, one of them is Lord Of The Rings.
Animal Restaurant: The Green Round Door is a reference to Bilbo Baggins' door. Its description reads:
"Knock, knock!" Will a dwarf open the door?
In Astalon: Tears of the Earth, it's possible to get a Non-Standard Game Over at the beginning of the game by having Arias turn back and leave the tower rather than following his friends into it. This rewards the player with an achievement called "Fly, you fool!"
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark: The protagonists visit an ancestral estate whose gardener extols the range of plants to be found on the grounds, claiming that there's even an ent about the place somewhere.
Marathon: The level titled "Foe Hammer" is named for the sword Gandalf picks up in The Hobbit and keeps with him throughout the Lord of the Rings trilogy, also known as Glamdring (Quenya for "Foe-hammer"; it is written as "Foe-hammer" in the book.)
Minecraft: Come the new Advancements system replacing achievements in 1.12, a few more little shout outs in the names have appeared alongside the existing achievement names. These include "Not Today, Thank You".
Girl Genius: The weapons wielded by the Storm King are a mace named "The Platonic Solid" and a sword called "Archimedes' Lever". But the Jägers call them Smasher and Slasher. This may be a reference to the swords retrieved by Thorin and Gandalf in The Hobbit. They're properly named Orcrist (Goblin-Cleaver) and Glamdring (Foe-Hammer), but the Goblins call them Biter and Beater.
Atun-Shei Films: The bit in which the Witchfinder General exorcises the Nazi officer from Johnny Reb in "Was it REALLY the WAR of NORTHERN AGGRESSION?!?!?!" is a play on the scene of Gandalf ridding Thèoden of Saruman's grip on his mind in The Two Towers film.
This article describes having 20 meals a day as "Hobbit-style".
This user wrote to the Neopian Times asking, "My Neopet has been acting strangely ever since he found this magical gold ring... He keeps turning invisible and talking about his 'precioussss'. What shall I do?".
In his review of Short Circuit 2, a clip of Frodo's Big "NO!" from The Fellowship of the Ring is played over the scene where Johnny 5 is beaten to death.
In his review of Rover Dangerfield, the Critic thinks about all the trees that were cut down to make the movie, leading to a clip from The Two Towers of Treebeard reacting to the chopped forest.
"I'm not sure anyone could consider (Sonic Unleashed) 'the game for them,' but they probably live in a cave and subsist on raw fish." The accompanying visual is a silouhette of Gollum holding a fish in, ironically, a very nice cave with great lighting and a little pebbly stream, as opposed to a stygian underground lake.
The Phoenix Point / Bug Fables episode has game designer Julian Gollop go around on all fours muttering "gollop gollop" to himself.
The American Dad! episode "The Return of the Bling" had Roger acting and talking to himself like Gollum over an Olympic medal he unfairly earned, which Stan and Steve were trying to take back to the committee. He even bites off Stan's finger at the end of the episode (even though he already had the medal back) just because "They did it in the movie".
Centaurworld: Holetaurs agree to join the hootenanny using the same words as heard during the Fellowship of the Ring being formed, only replacing weapons with instruments.
Badgertaur: By my life or death, you have my fiddle.
Codename: Kids Next Door: The episode "Operation: F.I.S.H.Y.", in which Numbuhs Two and Four try to dispose of Numbuh Three's dead goldfish, is a parody of the films.
The Dragon Prince: When Callum and Rayla are discussing how they should cross the Xadian border, he points out that "One does not simply walk into Xadia!" He even makes the same hand gesture that Boromir did.
Evil Con Carne: In "No No Nanook", a minor Running Gag involves characters entering a cave and running over expies of Frodo and Gollum.
In "Partying is Such Sweet Soiree", a sugar-crazed Mac freaks out upon tasting a piece of sugar-free gum and screams "It burns us! It burns us!"
In "Cookie Dough", Frankie starts behaving like Gollum and talking to herself while eating Madame Foster's cookies.
In “Duchess of Wails”, the entire scene where the Foster residents square off against Mac and Bloo when they try to bring Duchess back to Fosters parodies the battle of the second movie, with Bloo saying a quote that parodies another in the film.
In the Gravity Falls episode "The Stanchurian Canditate", after Stan (who was running for mayor) makes a remark about teaching kids swears to "bring them into the real world", Wendy tells him, "You're meming fast, and none of them are good" - while showing him a parody of the "walk into Mordor" meme depicting Stan saying "One does not simply 'teach kids swears'".
Professor Poofenplotz channeling Galdriel as she monologues about her Evil Plan to become Queen of the World using royal bee jelly.
Baljeetolas of the Nerdling Realm in "Excaliferb".
When an even-bigger goon joins the others, Monty just sighs and mutters, "They have a cave troll."
The R.O.B. the Robot episode about the kids putting on a fantasy action story is titled "Lord of the Robots" (although its plot is more similar to Dungeons & Dragons.
"Treehouse of Horror XII", a Hobbit is seen attending the Gypsy and Leprechaun's wedding in Hex and the City.
In "Dude, Where's My Ranch?", a prospector named Cleanie puts some dirty dishes and into a sack and says "My precious". Bonus points for him being voiced by Andy Serkis.
In "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh", Bart and Lisa's battle with delivery people spoofs the Battle of the Hornburg from The Two Towers.
In a flashback from "That '90s Show", Comic Book Guy is seen telling a college study group "And that is why The Lord of the Rings can never be filmed."
In "Pranks and Greens", Homer says "You found the precious" when Marge uncovers his secret stash of junk food.
In "Brick Like Me", Comic Book Guy says that Bart's LEGO robot is partially made from a Hobbit Hole Playset.
Several references appear throughout "The Serfsons", a parody of high fantasy works in general.
The South Park episode "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" was a Whole-Plot Reference to the series. Not only did the plot revolve around a VHS of The Fellowship of the Ring, it also bears similarities to The Lord of the Rings itself, with Cartman taking on the role of Gandalf and Butters taking on the role of Gollum. The 6th Graders take on the role of the Shadow, with Scott Tenormann as a Ringwraith and unnamed teenagers as orcs.
Alternative Title(s):The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings
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