Beginning and Forging

Usagi Yojimbo: The comic has a segue about a Japanese swordsmith making a katana, beginning with a forging scene with a team of strikers that is as much religious ritual as it is craftsmanship.

Source: Forging Scene
Opening Monologue: Galadriel's now iconic opening monologue of the trilogy, describing the forging of the Rings Of Power, the Battle of the Last Alliance, Sauron's downfall and the One Ring being lost and forgotten, basically laying the groundwork for the beginning of the main story.

Source: Film / The Lord of the Rings
He is unique in that he is of both the fae and human worlds.The first story, although not the beginning of Oswald's story, begins when a group of Fae steals the hammer of Kalvaitis, stopping him from forging the sun that day and leaving the fae world in perpetual darkness.

Source: Webcomic / The Oswald Chronicles

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