In The Divine Comedy by Dante, completed 1320, the angel at purgatory's gate sits on adamant. In the Early Modern epic poem The Faerie Queene, published 1590, Sir Artegal's sword is made of Adamant. In the Holy Sonnet I, published 1620, John Donne states in line 14, "And thou like adamant draw mine iron heart". In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the base of the fictitious flying island of Laputa (Part III of Gulliver's Travels) is constructed of Adamant. In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Nenya, one of the Three Rings of Power, is set with a gem of adamant; the fortress of Barad-dûr is also partly built from "adamant". The crown of Gondor is described as having "seven gems of adamant". In the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, Adamantine is an exotic metal of great strength. In His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, in the third book, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Lord Asriel's tower is made of adamant.
In The Divine Comedy by Dante, completed 1320 the angel at purgatory's gate sits on adamant. In the Early Modern epic poem The Faerie Queene, published 1590, Sir Artegal's sword is made of Adamant. In the Holy Sonnet I, published 1620, John Donne states in line 14, "And thou like adamant draw mine iron heart". In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the base of the fictitious flying island of Laputa (Part III of Gulliver's Travels) is constructed of Adamant. In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Nenya, one of the Three Rings of ,Power, is set with a gem of adamant; the fortress of Barad-dûr is also partly built from "adamant". The crown of Gondor is described as having "seven gems of adamant". In the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, Adamantine is an exotic metal of great strength. In His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, in the third book, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Lord Asriel's tower is made of adamant.