In a village in la Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to recall…
Didn’t Quetzalcoatl write the Popul Vuh? Or was that Huitzilopochtli? No, wait, they’re Aztec…
Oh… you so funny, Trip. You make-a me raff and raff. 
Simetra
No, I wasn’t a seven-headed lizard either.
National Lampoon magazine, circa 1986.
It was an article along the lines of … “101 Names for your Band (categorized)”
Under the category of Country-Punk was:
Cow-Boy Bob and the Jackbatties
It struck me humorous and has stuck with me lo these many years. I used it as many a video game character name before it was a screen name.
“Behold, Secrecius, the wonders of the sky! Observe how the constellation Ursa Major looks nothing like Pisces.”
“Yeah, man, yeah! That be trippin’! They, like, don’t have no Simetra at all.”
Ummmmm, I can’t remember…
Starcraft
[sub]So maybe its not direct, but there is a book about it[/sub]
I thought Tuor slew Maeglin, throwing him off the walls of Gondolin when he attempted to abduct Idril and slay Earendil. Maeglin certainly never served Tuor.
My mistake. An earlier version of the story has him tortured and killed by Morgoth after a successful betrayal.
The title on a box of hair coloring. Now who woulda thunk?
The series entitled The War of Light and Shadow by Janny Wurts. Verrain was an apprentice wizrd for several hundred years working diligently towards being a true mage. Being a grad student, I sympathized with that. 
The Martian series by Edgar Rice Burroghs, starting with A Princess of Mars. I’m the green guy with four arms, big teeth, an no clothes (everybody’s naked on Barsoom!)
“Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There,” which is, of course, the sequel to “Alice in Wonderland.”
Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. I’m the badass executioner’s sword.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of **Spiritus Mundi **
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
Was Severian already taken?
My Kawasaki “Ninja” ZX-7R motorcycle.
::::pats self on back for being so creative::::
I don’t think so. I just thought the sword’s name was cool.
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Signed,
Irving Washington
I got mine from the story BeoWulf.
You sunofabitch!!!
It’s him!!!
Momeee!