Tolkien References Project: Marvel

I would love to extend my thanks to both Mercury Natis (Abre numa nova janela) and Tim Bolton (Abre numa nova janela) for their chat (Abre numa nova janela) over on Bluesky (Abre numa nova janela), referencing Tolkien mentions with Marvel comics, and for reminding me I needed to put this together! 😇

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A couple of years ago (2021) a short scene made for a laugh and a few appreciatively raised eyebrows when Bucky Barnes exclaimed in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier:

"I read the Hobbit in 1937 when it first came out"

Obviously with an underlying tone of arrogance because he knows his Tolkien from before the time people turned it into a hype… 🤪

And that definition: “A sorcerer is a wizard without a hat!” 😂

So, with the Marvel Database (a Fandom wiki) you’ll find this page:

The main page (Abre numa nova janela) does include a few fun facts.

“For instance, when Karl Lykos (Abre numa nova janela) became a humanoid Pterodon, he took the name "Sauron (Abre numa nova janela)" after the villain of the books…”

or…

“Tony Stark (Abre numa nova janela) hates Tolkien¹.”

The best thing, though?

We do have an excellent piece on Early Tolkien References in Marvel and DC Comic Books (Abre numa nova janela) published with the Tolkien Guide, written by Dale Nelson, and originally published with Beyond Bree (Abre numa nova janela).

Let’s not forget Numenor (Abre numa nova janela) (the emperor of Bensaylum), and Aragorn (Abre numa nova janela) (a winged horse), and the fact that Captain America actually once (presumably) read The Lord of the Rings in a comic, stating²:

I always was a sucker for far-out fantasy (Abre numa nova janela)!

So, yeah, Tolkien & Marvel, it’s a thing. 🤩

1. Iron Man (Vol 5) #4 (Abre numa nova janela). ↩

2. Thanks to Tolkien Gateway and its ‘Tolkien’s works in popular media/ comics (Abre numa nova janela)’ page. ↩