Who is Shadrach

[Voadam]

One of my friends named a pet turtle Shadrach and I'm trying to remember where I heard the name before.

I know he is one of the guys in the old testament who would not eat the non-kosher food of King Nebuchadnezzer and was thrown into a fire for it but I have this nagging feeling I've heard the name in a fantasy novel or movie somewhere as well.

Maybe I'm thinking of the Orc god of darkness, isn't his name Shaggras or something like that?

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

It's also a beastie boys song

Yeah, there is an orc god named something akin to Shadrach.

 

[diaglo]

it a movie with harvey keitel and andie mcdowell

i can't remember but i think there was also an older movie with Jon Voight

 

[Psion]

Meeshach and Abed-Nego's partner?

I know he is one of the guys in the old testament who would not eat the non-kosher food of King Nebuchadnezzer and was thrown into a fire for it but I have this nagging feeling I've heard the name in a fantasy novel or movie somewhere as well.

Oh. Sorry.

 

[barsoomcore]

Shadrach, Mesach, Abednego!

Now I have Beastie Boys in my head.

 

[allenw]

You might be thinking of "Shagrat," the Orc in Cirith Ungol who got away with Frodo's mail-shirt.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmmm, it could have been from a book on metal smithing - shadrach is a term for iron ore that has not been succesfuly smelted, leaving the stone unchanged by the furnace. I believe that the Old Testemant version came first with the iron smelting version being named after the Biblical Shadrach.

The Auld Grump, who has no idea why he knew that...

 

[el-remmen]

I had a half-ogre ranger named Shadrach NPC in my "Out of the Frying Pan" game that helped the party get through dangerous orc territory - but a my story hour has not gotten that far yet, I douby that is where you know the name from. . .

 

[The_Gneech]

Isn't the Cuisinart Shadrach a power group in Dune?

-TG

 

[Neil Aitken]

Perhaps you are thinking of Frank Herbert's Dune where Paul Muadib becomes the "Kwitsach haderach" ?