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Batmobile https://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigure?action=actionfigure&id=5834&figure=batmobileturbinesound ------------------------------ Tim Burton 's live-action films  Batman  (1989) and  Batman Returns  (1992) presented a different version of the  Batmobile , which reflected those films'  Art Deco  version of Gotham City, both of which were designed by  Anton Furst . It was long, low and sleek, and was built on a  Chevrolet Impala  chassis. The Tim Burton Batmobile is now housed at the  Petersen Automotive Museum  in Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batmobile#Batman_.281989_film.29_.2F_Batman_Returns ------------------------- The Ertl Company is an American  toy  company best known for its  die-cast  metal alloy collectible replicas (or  scale models ) of  farm equipment  and vehicles. The company is based in Dyersville, Iowa, home of the  Nation...

The Elven archers from Lórien use large bows of Mallorn wood strung with elf-hair. Their arrows were almost four feet long and usually made of ash with a tip made of gold and shaped like a Mallorn leaf. They used a spiral method of fletching (attaching feathers to the arrow shaft), thus making their arrows more accurate, up to a quarter mile. Legolas was the most renowned archer throughout the Third Age . Earlier in his journey with the Fellowship of the Ring , he used a bow from Mirkwood, and it was later replaced by the bow of the Galadhrim Lady Galadriel gave him. http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Archer ------------------------------ The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers  is a 2002  epic   high fantasy   adventure film  directed by  Peter Jackson  and based on the  second volume  of  J. R. R. Tolkien 's novel  The Lord of the Rings . It is the second installment in  The Lord of the Rings film series , pre...

Meriadoc " Merry " Brandybuck (later known as Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck I, due to his grandson's birth) was a Hobbit and one of Frodo 's cousins and closest friends. He loved boats and ponies and had a great interest in the maps of Middle-earth . He was also one of the nine companions in The Fellowship of the Ring . Merry was born in TA 2982 . He was the only child of Saradoc Brandybuck ( TA 2940 - FO 11 ), Master of Buckland , and Esmeralda Took ( TA 2936 - ?), the younger sister of Paladin Took II , making him first cousin to Paladin's son Pippin , who was clearly his closest friend. http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Meriadoc_Brandybuck ------------------------------ The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers  is a 2002  epic   high fantasy   adventure film  directed by  Peter Jackson  and based on the  second volume  of  J. R. R. Tolkien 's novel  The Lord of the Rings . It is the second installment in  The...

Peregrin Took, more commonly known as Pippin , was a Hobbit of the Shire , and one of Frodo Baggins 's youngest, but closest friends. He was a member of the Fellowship of the Ring . Pippin was born to Paladin Took II and Eglantine Banks on the spring of TA 2990 ( SR 1390 ). He was the youngest of four children and had three older sisters, Pearl , Pimpernel , and Pervinca . His father's sister, Esmeralda Took , was the mother of Meriadoc Brandybuck , thus making Pippin and Merry first cousins. Through his father, Pippin was the second-cousin once-removed of Frodo, and the first-cousin twice-removed of Bilbo Baggins. http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Peregrin_Took ------------------------------ The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers  is a 2002  epic   high fantasy   adventure film  directed by  Peter Jackson  and based on the  second volume  of  J. R. R. Tolkien 's novel  The Lord of the Rings . It is the second inst...

Uglúk was the leader of the Uruk-hai scouts who were sent to pursue the Fellowship of the Ring in TA 3018 , and was a highly trusted servant of Saruman . Uglúk and his company were the ones who ended up capturing Merry and Pippin at Amon Hen and headed towards Isengard . He was one of the largest and strongest of the Uruk-hai and was a fierce fighter, managing to dismount Éomer and nearly kill him. Before that, he had been the commander of those that raided the Wold , shortly before the Fellowship left Moria . After his capture of the two hobbits at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring , Uglúk stood by his lord Saruman's demands when a band of Sauron 's Orcs, led by Grishnákh , tried to apprehend Merry and Pippin to take them to Mordor , and he beheaded one of Grishnákh's followers to prevent Saruman's orders from being disobeyed. Uglúk was ultimately killed when, within that week, Éomer and his outlawed Rohirrim attacked his band. http://lo...

"Uruk-hai" appears to be the full Black Speech term for Uruks, the great soldier-orcs of Mordor and Isengard . ( Christopher Tolkien identified "uruks" as an "anglicisation" of "Uruk-hai".) In The Lord of the Rings , Saruman 's orcs identify themselves as the "fighting Uruk-hai", that name is the common term used to refer to them. Later in one instance, a tracker-orc in Mordor makes reference to a "pack of rebel Uruk-hai", apparently in reference towards Gorbag 's troop of orcs who were Uruks of Mordor . http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Uruk-hai ------------------------------ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 New Zealand-American epic high fantasy adventure film produced, written and directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings . It is the third and final installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy , following ...