Crack of Doom from Return of the King.

The phrase at the crack of doom, meaning "at the striking of the fateful hour", appears in Macbeth by William Shakespeare and has entered common usage. On the heath the Weird Sisters show Macbeth the line of kings that will issue from Banquo: Image File history File links Crack_doom. ... Image File history File links Crack_doom. ... Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer This article is on the play Macbeth by Shakespeare. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Weïrd Sisters, (sometimes Wyrd Sisters or Three Weird Sisters), is the Germanic mythological group name given to the Nordic fates, or Norns. ... Banquo is a character in the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. ...

'Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!

What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:'

In the context of the play, "to the crack of doom" is thought by some to mean "until the Day of Judgement", meaning that Banquo's line will endure until the end of time; surely considerable flattery for King James I, who claimed descent from Banquo and whom Macbeth is thought by some to have been written for specifically. The term Judgement Day may refer to: The Last Judgement; the ethical-judicial trial, judgement, and punishment/reward of individual humans (assignment to Heaven or to Hell) by a divine tribunal at the end of time. ... See James VI of Scotland and I of England James I of Scotland James I of Aragon James I of Sicily James I of Cyprus This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, Tolkien plays upon Shakespeare's familiar phrase, to provide the literal Cracks of Doom (or Crack of Doom), physical cracks— fissures within the great volcano Mount Doom— the very place where the Dark Lord Sauron created the One Ring. They also are the place that the One Ring must be cast into in order to be destroyed, rendering Sauron powerless. This place was known more properly as the Sammath Naur. J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... A map of the Northwestern part of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age, courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Arda. ... A volcano is a geological landform usually generated by the eruption through a planets surface of magma, molten rock welling up from the planets interior. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mount Doom, or Orodruin, is a volcano in Mordor where the One Ring was forged in the Crack of Doom, a fiery chasm within the mountain. ... For other uses, see Sauron (disambiguation). ... The ring-inscription appearing to Isildur (top) and Frodo (bottom) in Peter Jacksons The Fellowship of the Ring. ...

The RPG: BAT WINGED BIMBOS FROM HELL, a parody of all RPGs that uses the GURPS system, features "Crack of Doom" as a character attribute. ^{[citation needed]}