genre evernight 
___MASK89___ ___MASK52___ is the body of written works that employ the motifs , themes , and stylistic approaches expected in the fantasy ___MASK70___ . Historically , most works of fantasy were written pieces of ___MASK52___ . Since the 1960s , a growing segment of the fantasy ___MASK70___ has taken the form of films , television programs , graphic novels , video games , music and painting . Earth , otherwise known as the world , is the third planet from the Sun and the only object in the ___MASK66___ known to harbor life . It is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest of the four terrestrial planets . The Hobbit , or There and Back Again is a children ' s ___MASK6___ by English author J . R . R . Tolkien . It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim , being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the " New York Herald Tribune " for best juvenile ___MASK39___ . The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in children ' s literature . The gittern was a relatively small gut strung round - backed instrument that first appears in ___MASK52___ and pictorial representation during the 13th century in ___MASK8___ Europe ( Iberian Peninsula , Italy , France , England ). It is usually depicted played with a quill plectrum , as we can see clearly beginning in manuscript illuminations from the thirteenth century . It was also called the guitarra in Spain , guiterne or guiterre in France , the chitarra in Italy and quintern in Germany . A popular instrument with court musicians , minstrels , and amateurs , the gittern is considered ancestral to the modern guitar ; possibly other instruments like the mandore and gallichon . Evernight is the fourth studio album by the Finnish ___MASK27___ band Battlelore , released in 2007 . As previously , the songs are all based on J . R . R . Tolkien ' s Middle - earth . Overall the sound of the album was darker and denser than the band ' s earlier releases with a much thicker and heavier guitar sound . The album also was more consistent in sound with less variation between songs to present a more cohesive piece of work . In this album the band choose not to use names and direct references to Tolkien ' s legendarium to make the lyrics accessible to a broader audience . The Lord of the Rings is an ___MASK35___ high - ___MASK6___ written by English author J . R . R . Tolkien . The story began as a ___MASK38___ to Tolkien ' s 1937 ___MASK6___ " The Hobbit ", but eventually developed into a much larger work . Written in stages between 1937 and 1949 , " The Lord of the Rings " is one of the best - selling novels ever written , with over 150 million copies sold . Tolkien ' s Legendarium ( ISBN 0 - 313 - 30530 - 7 ) is a collection of scholarly ___MASK54___ edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F . Hostetter on the ___MASK28___ of Middle - earth series of books relating to the ___MASK39___ of J . R . R . Tolkien , compiled and edited by his son , Christopher Tolkien . It was published by Greenwood Press in 2000 . John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , ( 3 January 1892  2 September 1973 ), known by his pen name J . R . R . Tolkien , was an English writer , ___MASK15___ , philologist , and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high - fantasy works " The Hobbit ", " The Lord of the Rings ", and " The Silmarillion ". Hobbits are a fictional , diminutive , humanoid race who inhabit the lands of Middle - earth in J . R . R . Tolkien  s ___MASK39___ . They are also referred to as Halflings . Middle - earth is the setting of much of J . R . R . Tolkien ' s legendarium . The term is equivalent to the term " Midgard " of ___MASK48___ , describing the human - inhabited world , i . e . the central continent of the Earth in Tolkien ' s imagined mythological past . Tolkien ' s most widely read works , " The Hobbit " and " The Lord of the Rings ", take place entirely in Middle - earth , and " Middle - earth " has also become a short - hand to refer to the legendarium or its " fictional ___MASK66___ ". A pen name (" nom de plume ", or " literary double ") is a pseudonym ( or , in some cases , a variant form of a real name ) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by - line of his or her works in place of their " real " name . A pen name may be used to make the author ' s name more distinctive , to disguise his or her ___MASK75___ , to distance an author from some or all of his or her previous works , to protect the author from retribution for his or her writings , to combine more than one author into a single author , or for any of a number of reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work . The author ' s name may be known only to the publisher , or may come to be common knowledge . The ___MASK91___ was a period in European ___MASK28___ , from the 14th to the 17th century , regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern ___MASK28___ . It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe , marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age . Verlyn Flieger ( born 1933 ) is an author , editor , and professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at ___MASK37___ Park . She teaches courses in comparative ___MASK80___ , medieval literature and the works of J . R . R . Tolkien . Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English , Swedish / Danish " Midgård ", Old Saxon , Old High German , Gothic " Midjun - gards "; literally " middle yard ") is the name for Earth ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic ___MASK67___ , and specifically one of the Nine Worlds in Norse mythology . Metal Female Voices Fest is a ___MASK29___ festival held annually in Belgium since 2003 . It is organized by the " Metal Organisation " agency . Every year , they give special awards for the bands voted by the public in each category . Battlelore are a Finnish ___MASK27___ band from Lappeenranta , founded in 1999 by guitarist Jyri Vahvanen and bassist Miika Kokkola . The name derives from the union of the words ' battle ' and ' ___MASK53___ '. Many of Battlelore ' s lyrics concern J . R . R . Tolkien ' s Middle - earth sagas and their stage costumes and live shows are largely inspired by the themes and characters of fantasy ___MASK52___ . The band had many changes of personnel during their twelve years of activity and had a long hiatus after the completion of the tour supporting their latest release " Doombound " in 2011 . In January 2016 they announced that they would be performing at Metal Female Voices Fest XIII in October 2016 . A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument . Frets usually extend across the full width of the neck . On most modern ___MASK8___ fretted instruments , frets are metal strips inserted into the fingerboard . On some historical instruments and non - European instruments , frets are made of pieces of string tied around the neck . Lappeenranta is a city and municipality situated on the shore of the lake Saimaa in South - Eastern Finland , about from the Russian border . It belongs to the region of South ___MASK31___ . With approximately inhabitants Lappeenranta is the largest city in Finland . The neighboring municipality of Joutseno was consolidated with Lappeenranta on January 1 , 2009 , and the neighboring municipality of Ylämaa on January 1 , 2010 . Lappeenranta is known as an international university city in Finland with Lappeenranta University of Technology and Saimaa University of Applied Sciences which together have approximately 13 , 000 students from 68 countries . Lappeenranta is also a commercial centre of South - East Finland and the meeting point of the EU and Russia , 215 km from both Helsinki and St . Petersburg . Location on the southern shore of Lake Saimaa makes the city the region  s centre for tourism . Lappeenranta is second most visited city by Russian tourists in Finland after Helsinki and it competes with Helsinki for the largest share of tax - free sales in Finland . Lappeenranta is a model for renewable energies and a clean living environment . Lappeenranta was the only Finnish city among the 14 finalists in the international Earth Hour City Challenge 2014 , organized by WWF . A fictional ___MASK66___ is a self - consistent imaginary setting with events , and often other elements , that differ from the real world . It may also be called an imagined , constructed or fictional realm ( or world ). Fictional universes may appear in novels , comics , films , television shows , video games and other creative works . ___MASK53___ is the body of expressive ___MASK4___ shared by a particular group of people ; it encompasses the traditions common to that ___MASK4___ , subculture or group . These include oral traditions such as tales , proverbs and jokes . They include material ___MASK4___ , ranging from traditional building styles to handmade toys common to the group . ___MASK53___ also includes customary lore , the forms and rituals of celebrations like Christmas and weddings , folk dances and initiation rites . Each one of these , either singly or in combination , is considered a folklore artifact . Just as essential as the form , folklore also encompasses the transmission of these artifacts from one region to another or from one generation to the next . For folklore is not taught in a formal school curriculum or studied in the fine arts . Instead these traditions are passed along informally from one individual to another either through verbal instruction or demonstration . The academic ___MASK61___ of folklore is called folkloristics . ___MASK48___ is the body of mythology of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period . The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology , ___MASK48___ consists of tales of various deities , beings , and heroes derived from numerous sources from both before and after the pagan period , including medieval manuscripts , archaeological representations , and folk tradition . An electric guitar is a fretted string instrument that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings  which are typically made of steel , and which occurs when a guitarist strums , plucks or fingerpicks the strings  into electrical signals . The vibrations of the strings are sensed by a pickup , of which the most common type is the magnetic pickup , which uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction . The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker , so it is plugged into a guitar amplifier before being sent to a loudspeaker , which makes a sound loud enough to hear . The output of an electric guitar is an electric signal , and the signal can easily be altered by electronic circuits to add " color " to the sound or change the sound . Often the signal is modified using effects such as reverb and distortion and " overdrive ", with the latter being a key element of the sound of the electric guitar as it is used in ___MASK22___ and ___MASK82___ . A chordophone is a ___MASK5___ instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points . It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel - Sachs scheme of ___MASK5___ instrument classification . The ___MASK23___ guitar ( c . 1600  1750 ) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets . The first ( highest pitched ) course sometimes used only a single string . ___MASK80___ refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the ___MASK61___ of such myths . Myths are the stories people tell to explain nature , history and customs . The guitar is a ___MASK5___ instrument classified as a string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings , usually having six . The sound is projected either acoustically , using a hollow wooden or plastic and wood box ( for an acoustic guitar ), or through electrical amplifier and a speaker ( for an electric guitar ). It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers , thumb and / or fingernails of the right hand or with a pick while fretting ( or pressing against the frets ) the strings with the fingers of the left hand . The guitar is a type of chordophone , traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut , nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning . The modern guitar was preceded by the gittern , the vihuela , the four - course Renaissance guitar , and the five - course baroque guitar , all of which contributed to the development of the modern six - string instrument . Nylon is a generic designation for a ___MASK1___ of synthetic polymers , more specifically aliphatic or semi - aromatic polyamides . They can be melt - processed into fibers , films or shapes . The first example of nylon ( nylon 6 , 6 ) was produced on February 28 , 1935 , by Wallace Carothers at DuPont ' s research facility at the DuPont Experimental Station . Nylon polymers have found significant commercial applications in fibers ( apparel , flooring and rubber reinforcement ), in shapes ( molded parts for cars , electrical equipment , etc .), and in films ( mostly for ___MASK45___ packaging ).< ref name =" Materials / Polyamide "></ ref > String instruments , stringed instruments , or chordophones are ___MASK5___ instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner .