Kirin (chess) help of their own king. Kirin (chess) A kirin is a fairy chess piece that moves as a ferz or a dabbaba. In notation, it is given the symbol FD. In this article, the kirin is represented by an inverted knight. The kirin is also known as giraffe ( ). The kirin appears under this name (Japanese: 麒麟, "kirin") in the 14th-century Japanese game of chu shogi, and also in many other shogi variants. It appears in Ralph Betza's Chess on a Really Big Board. It is approximately equal to a knight in value. Two kirins can force checkmate on
All that is gold does not glitter and danger. Line seven refers to the sword Narsil. Line eight foreshadows the crownless Aragorn's accession to the throne of both the kingless Gondor and the vanished Arnor. Older editions of "The Lord of the Rings" indexed the poem as "The Riddle of Strider". From the 50th anniversary edition of 2005 on, the new, enlarged index by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull list it as "All that is gold does not glitter". Early versions of the poem are recorded in "The Treason of Isengard", part of "The History of Middle-earth" book series by Christopher Tolkien. The first draft of