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Crack of Doom - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Abrasion, Abyss, Ace, Address, Adept, Adroit, Alligator, Answer, Aperture, Aphorism, Apostrophe, Apt, Artistic, Assay, Assertion |
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The phrase at the crack of doom, meaning "at the striking of the fateful hour", appears in Macbeth by William Shakespeare and has entered common usage. On the heath the witches show Macbeth the line of kings that will issue from Banquo:
- 'Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!
- What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
- Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:'
In J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, Tolkien plays upon Shakespeare's familiar phrase, to provide the literal Cracks of Doom (or Crack of Doom), physical cracks— fissures within the great volcano Mount Doom— the very place where the Dark Lord Sauron created the One Ring. They also are the place that the One Ring must be cast into in order to be destroyed, rendering Sauron powerless. This place was known more properly as the Sammath Naur.
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Example Usage of Crack |
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griefoftwats: Review of Brum's best band Ace Bushy Striptease by @TLOBF http://bit.ly/8KJ4IK seemingly written by an ADD sufferer on Crack, but it works |
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livingdocuments: Fwd: No Crack Allowed .... I learned you do not want to be around people who create and use Crack programs... http://ff.im/ccPYk |
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johtos: @chanikin get sum big mobs of lambs mate! chocka that barbie so it'll come good when u Crack a fat |
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