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{{trope}}
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An extremely popular title convention in almost every media and most genres. This is one of the oldest known naming formulas; it is already an established formula in ''One Thousand and One Nights'', with internal stories are named things like "The Tale of the Bull and the Ass" and "The City of Brass".
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A sub-convention is [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]. Please put examples that fall into that convention on that page, not here. For the related form "The Adjective Noun" see [[Mad Lib Thriller Title]]. See also [[Genre Title Grab Bag]]. [[Title of the Dead]] and [[Age of Titles]] are sub-tropes. Usually overlaps with [[Revenge of the Sequel]].
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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]: Flights of Fancy''
* ''Ancient Book of [[Ys]]''
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* ''[[The Tale of the Princess Kaguya]]''
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]''
* ''[[The Tomb of Dracula]]''
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]''
* ''[[Interstella 5555|INTERSTELLA 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem]]''
* ''[[Army of Darkness]]''
* ''Best of the Best''
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* The [http://finalgirl.blogspot.com Final Girl] horror blog pointed out how common "The Something of Someone" titles were in horror films from the 1970s: ''The Initiation of Sarah'', ''The Reincarnation of Peter Proud'', ''The Haunting of Isabel'', etc.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
** ''The Fellowship of the Ring''
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* ''The Buddha of Suburbia''
* "The Black Sheep of Vaerlosi", a 2009 short story by Desmond Warzel.
* ''[[The Crying of Lot 49]]'' by [[Thomas Pynchon]]
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' did this so often ('''''116 times''''' by the end of the 2011 season) that the companion book "A History of the Universe" used "The Noun of Adjective" as the title in its sample entry. Just to name a sample:
** "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1/E05 The Keys of Marinus|The Keys of Marinus]]"
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* ''[[Gaming in The Clinton Years|Flights of Fantasy]]''
== [[Music]] ==
* ''[[Frank Zappa|The Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar]]''.
* Savatage's "The Hall of the Mountain King"
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[The Spawn of Fashan]]''
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* The ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' series is rife with this:
** ''The Caverns of Kalte''
** ''The Chasm of [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Doom]]''
** ''The Kingdom of Terror''
** ''The Jungle of Horrors''
** ''The Cauldron of Fear''
** ''The Dungeons of Torgar''
** ''The Prisoners of Time''
** ''The Masters of Darkness''
** ''The Plague Lords of Ruel''
** ''The Captives of Kaag''
** ''The Legacy of Vashna''
** ''The Deathlord of Ixia''
** ''Dawn of the Dragons''
** ''The Curse of Naar''
** ''The Buccaneers of Shadaki''
** ''The Fall of Blood Mountain''
** ''The Hunger of Sejanoz''
** ''The Storms of Chai''
* ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' also uses it extensively:
** ''The Warlock of Firetop Mountain''
** ''The Citadel of Chaos''
** ''The Forest [[Of Doom]]''
** ''City of Thieves''
** ''Island of the Lizard King''
** ''Caverns of the Snow Witch''
** ''House of Hell''
** ''Talisman of Death''
** ''Temple of Terror''
** ''The Rings of Kether''
** ''Seas of Bood''
** ''Demons of the Deep''
** ''Sword of the [[Samurai]]''
** ''Trial of Champions''
** ''Masks of Mayhem''
** ''Creature of Havoc''
** ''Crypt of the Sorceror''
** ''Phantoms of Fear''
** ''Chasms of Malice''
** ''Slaves of the Abyss''
** ''Stealer of Souls''
** ''Daggers of Darkness''
** ''Armies of Death''
** ''Portal of Evil''
** ''Vault of the Vampire''
** ''Fangs of Fury''
** ''Dead of Night''
** ''Master of Chaos''
** ''The Keep of the Lich-Lord''
** ''Legend of the Shadow Warriors''
** ''Tower of Desruction''
** ''Siege of Sardath''
** ''Island of the Undead''
** ''Legend of Zagor''
** ''Knights [[Of Doom]]''
** ''Revenge of the Vampire''
** ''Curse of the Mummy''
** ''Howl of the Werewolf''
** ''Kharé -- Cityport of Traps''
** ''The Crown of Kings''
== [[Theatre]] ==
* The [[Martin McDonagh]] plays ''[[The Lieutenant of Inishmore]]'', ''The Cripple of Inishmaan'', and ''The Banshees of Inisheer'' (which together form the Aran Islands Trilogy) plus ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Advance Wars]]: Days of Ruin''
* [[Terraria]]'s ingame item: The Blade of Grass
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** Treasures of Aht'Urgan
** Chains of Promathia
** Wings of The
* ''[[Spider-Man: Web of Shadows]]''
* ''[[Touhou]]'':
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* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' has The X of the Golden Witch, such as "Legend of the Golden Witch", "Alliance of the Golden Witch", [[Alas, Poor Villain|"End of the Golden Witch"]]...
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'':
** Chapter 6: A Handful of Dirt
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* ''[[The Questport Chronicles]]'' is ''full'' of this trope. Examples include character names (the Lord of the Supreme Council, the Master of Darkness, the Queen of Rogues and Robbers), artifacts (the Tree of Light, the Harp of Remorse) and places (the Courts of Tenus).
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The Japanese dub of ''[[Beast Machines]]'' used this format for every episode title.
* ''[[The World of David the Gnome]]''
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* ''The Secret of NIMH''
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Summer of Love, and various sequels.
* The Wars of the Roses
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