The mystique of the ranger has been harnessed for military, sports and governmental uses as well as appearing elsewhere in fiction. The Ranger program, for example, was a series of NASA unmanned space missions.
As used in J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction, a ranger is a guardian of the land who travels within the wilderness. This fictional motif was revisited by various fantasy roleplaying games.
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