Editing Adamant (section)

==In popular culture== 
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* In ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' by [[Dante]], completed 1320, the angel at purgatory's gate sits on adamant.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Bang |first1=Mary Jo |title=Bang's Purgatorio |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/poems/bang-purgatorio |magazine=The New Yorker |date=23 December 2019 |language=en-us}}</ref>
* In the Early Modern epic poem ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'', published 1590, Sir Artegal's sword [[Chrysaor (sword)|Chrysaor]] is made of adamant.
* In the [[Holy Sonnets|Holy Sonnet]] I, published 1620, [[John Donne]] states in line 14, "And thou like adamant draw mine iron heart".
* In ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' by [[Jonathan Swift]], the base of the fictitious flying island of [[Gulliver's Travels#Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan|Laputa]] (Part III of Gulliver's Travels) is constructed of adamant.
* In [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Nenya, one of the [[Three Rings|Three Rings of Power]], is set with a gem of adamant; the fortress of [[Barad-dûr]] is also partly built from "adamant". The crown of Gondor is described as having "seven gems of adamant".
* In the [[tabletop roleplaying game]] ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', Adamantine is an exotic metal of great strength. 
* In ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' by [[Philip Pullman]], in the third book, ''[[The Amber Spyglass]]'' (2000), Lord Asriel's tower is made of adamant.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pullman |first=Philip |date=2000 |chapter=The Adamant Tower |title=The Amber Spyglass |location=New York |publisher=Alfred A Knopf |isbn=0-679-87926-9 |page=57}}</ref>