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Rings of Power
The Rings of Power, also called the Great Rings, are the nineteen rings forged by Elves of Eregion in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.
Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle: Washington Irving's 1819 short story from The Sketch Book, retelling a German Peter Klaus tale of a man who sleeps twenty years in the Catskills and wakes after the Revolution.
Ripples Across Stagnant Water
Ripples Across Stagnant Water (死水微澜, Sishui weilan) is a 1936 novel by Chinese writer Li Jieren, the first volume of his Great River trilogy set near Chengdu.
Risaletü'n-Nushiyye
Risaletü'n-Nushiyye ("Book of Counsels") is a didactic Sufi advice poem in mesnevi form attributed to the Anatolian poet Yunus Emre, dated by its own verses to 1307–08 and regarded as the first Turkish nasihatname in Anatolia.
Rising Impact (ライジングインパクト)
Rising Impact (ライジングインパクト) is a golf manga by Nakaba Suzuki, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1998-2002 across 17 volumes, cancelled after 15 chapters in 1999 and revived three months later. Its 2024 Netflix anime ran two seasons.
Rising Sun (Crichton novel)
Rising Sun is Michael Crichton's 1992 Knopf thriller about the murder of a woman at the Los Angeles opening of the Japanese conglomerate Nakamoto Tower, a number-one bestseller that sparked Japan-bashing controversy and a 1993 film with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is Stephen King's 1982 novella from Different Seasons, narrated by inmate Red about wrongly imprisoned Andy Dufresne, basis of the 1994 Frank Darabont film The Shawshank Redemption.
Ritha' al-Andalus
Ritha' al-Andalus, also known as the Nuniyya of Abu al-Baqa al-Rundi, is a 13th-century Arabic elegy mourning the fall of Andalusian cities and appealing for North African aid.
Riti poetry
Riti poetry (रीतिकालीन काव्य) is the courtly Hindi poetry of the Ritikal, roughly 1643 to 1843, composed in Brajbhasha by poets such as Keshavdas and Bihari.
Ritusamhara
Ritusamhara (ऋतुसंहारम्), also rendered "Garland of Seasons," is a short Sanskrit lyric poem attributed to Kalidasa, describing six Indian seasons and the love-play they stir in young couples.
Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale
Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale (Udekurabe, 腕くらべ) is a 1917 novel by the Japanese writer Nagai Kafū, following a geisha in Tokyo's Shimbashi district and considered his masterpiece.
Rivendell
Rivendell (Sindarin Imladris) is Elrond's hidden Elven refuge in Tolkien's Middle-earth, founded S.A. 1697 after Eregion's fall, seat of Vilya, host of the Council of Elrond, abandoned by Fo.A. 120.
River Snow
River Snow (Jiang xue) is a twenty-character quatrain by Tang poet Liu Zongyuan, written during his exile in Yongzhou, showing a lone fisherman fishing in the snow.
Riverdale (Archie Comics)
Riverdale is the fictional small American town created by Bob Montana and John L. Goldwater in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941) as the setting for Archie Andrews and the entire Archie Comics franchise, spanning classic teen-comedy stories, the Archie Horror line, the 2015 New Riverdale reboot, and the dark CW television series.
Rivers of London (novel)
Rivers of London (Midnight Riot, 2011), Ben Aaronovitch's first Peter Grant novel: probationary constable Peter Grant sees a ghost witness, joins the Folly under Thomas Nightingale, and mediates a river-spirits dispute.
Rizhi lu
Rizhi lu (日知錄, "Record of Daily Knowledge") is a work of reading notes in 32 juan by the late Ming and early Qing scholar Gu Yanwu.
Roadside Picnic (Пикник на обочине)
Roadside Picnic (Пикник на обочине) is a 1971 science fiction novel by Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, published 1972, about scavengers called stalkers extracting alien artifacts from six Zones left after the Visitation, with a heavily censored 1980 Soviet edition, a 1972-filtered 1977 Bouis and restored 2012 Bormashenko English translation, and Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979) as its famous film adaptation.
Rob Roy (novel)
Rob Roy (1817) is Walter Scott's sixth Waverley novel, a first-person historical novel set during the 1715 Jacobite rising, narrated by Frank Osbaldistone; it sold 10,000 copies in two weeks and became a Scottish stage classic.
Robb Stark
Robb Stark, the Young Wolf, is the eldest son of Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire; crowned King in the North during the War of the Five Kings, he dies aged 16 at the Red Wedding, never holding a viewpoint chapter, and is played by Richard Madden in Game of Thrones.
Robbery Under Arms
Robbery Under Arms is an Australian adventure novel by Rolf Boldrewood, serialised in 1882, telling the story of the bushranger Dick Marston and Captain Starlight.
Robert Baratheon
Robert Baratheon is a fictional king in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, crowned in 283 AC after Robert's Rebellion.
Robert Langdon
Robert Langdon: fictional Harvard professor of symbology created by Dan Brown, hero of six novels from Angels & Demons (2000) to The Secret of Secrets (2025), played by Tom Hanks in three films.
Robert Ripley
Robert Ripley (LeRoy Robert Ripley, 1890 or 1893–1949), American cartoonist from Santa Rosa, California, created Believe It or Not! in 1918; the odd-facts panel reached 300+ papers, spawned radio, books, and Odditoriums.
Robin Hood ballads
The Robin Hood ballads are medieval English folk poems about the outlaw of the greenwood, his Merry Men, and the sheriff of Nottingham, first surviving in fifteenth-century texts.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe, telling how its hero survived a shipwreck and lived twenty-eight years alone on an uninhabited island.
Robinsonka
Robinsonka is a 1940 novel for young readers by the Czech writer Marie Majerová, in which a fifteen-year-old girl coping with her mother's death models herself on Robinson Crusoe.
Robohnya Surau Kami
Robohnya Surau Kami ("The Collapse of Our Surau") is a 1955 short story by the Indonesian writer A.A. Navis, satirizing ritual piety that neglects family, work, and social welfare.
Rocinante
Rocinante is Don Quixote's old, worn-out horse in Cervantes' 1605 novel, named from rocín (nag) plus ante (before) to mean the foremost of former nags; the name also entered English and names The Expanse's spaceship.
Rock Is a Lady's Modesty
Rock Is a Lady's Modesty (Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite, ロックは淑女の嗜みでして) is Hiroshi Fukuda's manga in Young Animal since 2022, about academy ladies secretly forming an instrumental rock band; anime aired April 2025 on TBS, Yen Press publishes in English.
Rodion Raskolnikov (Родион Романович Раскольников)
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov (Родион Романович Раскольников), protagonist of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866): a 23-year-old impoverished ex-student who murders a pawnbroker to test his theory of "extraordinary" people, then confesses and goes to Siberian katorga.