In fiction, Adamant is referred to in the film Forbidden Planet (as "adamantine steel"), many books (such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Faerie Queene, Gulliver's Travels, His Dark Materials, The Lord of the Rings, Mathilda by Mary Shelley, and A Midsummer Night's Dream) and many games (such as Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy and RuneScape). In myth, Kronos uses an adamantine sickle to castrate his father Uranus in Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is bound to rocks "in adamantine bonds infrangible" in Virgil's Aeneid, columns of solid adamantine protect the gates of Tartarus in Paradise Lost, adamant and adamantine are mentioned eight times to describe the gates of hell, Satan's shield, fallen angel's armor and Satan's chains. Adamant or adamantine (suffix -ine 'of the nature of' or 'made of') occur in many works. The English word is both a noun and an adjective from Latin adamans 'impregnable, diamondlike hardness very firm/resolute position', from Greek adamastos 'untameable' (hence also the word diamond). Adamant has long meant any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance and, formerly, a legendary stone or mineral of impenetrable hardness and many other properties, often identified with diamond or lodestone.
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