Iron Crown

Iron Crown can refer to:

  • Iron Crown Enterprises, a roleplaying game publisher
  • Iron Crown of Lombardy, also used for the Napoleonic kingdom of Italy
  • Order of the Iron Crown, an order associated with the Iron Crown of Lombardy
  • Iron Crown (ship), an Australian merchant vessel sunk by a Japanese submarine during World war II.
  • the crown of Morgoth in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or crown:

    “Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “‘Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
    The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
    The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
    ...
    Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
    Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave
    Who with a body filled and vacant mind
    Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)