doomsman

doomsman

(ˈduːmsmən)
n, pl -men
obsolete a judge or umpire
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The Doomsman (1906), by Van Tassel Sutphen, is set ninety years after the cataclysmic Terror of 1925.
Verdens Undergang (1916) and the birth of apocalyptic film: Antecedents and causative forces
He is called the "Doomsman of the Valar," and he "pronounces his dooms and his judgments only at the bidding of Manwe" (19).
Closely tied in with the notion of judgment as one's fate or doom is the personification thereof, as is transparent, for example, in Mandos, "the Doomsman of the Valar" (19).
In The Silmarillion, we know that the Doomsman of the Valar, Mandos, pronounces his dooms "only at the bidding of Manwe" (19).
Germanic fate and doom in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion
(46) See Pamela Sheingorn, "For God is Such a Doomsman"
Intercession, detraction, and just judgment in Othello
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