![]() His Vinnermost desires came through the clearest in 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick, a dumb but deeply felt attempt to expand the Pitch Black universe into a Star Wars or Lord of the Rings–style mega-mythology involving an interstellar death cult called the Necromongers and their quest for an interdimensional Valhalla called the Underverse. ![]() Diesel may still be built like the nightclub bouncer he once was, but deep down, in the android’s dungeon of his heart, he’s a huge nerd, with a nerd’s passion for encyclopedically detailed fictional universes. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion it was also the name that Diesel gave his all-time favorite Dungeons & Dragons player-character, a dark elf who specialized in - wait for it - hunting witches. Melkor was the name of a Lucifer-like fallen-angel figure in J.R.R. In 2002’s xXx, Vin Diesel’s extreme athlete turned superspy alter ego Xander Cage had the word MELKOR tattooed across his lower abdomen. ![]()
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