In the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate, Merlin can control the weather. Both works introduce stories in which Merlin loses his powers to women he is romantically interested in. During the Renaissance, Merlin becomes a scientist, magus and philosopher. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he is reduced to a stereotypical figure of a wizard (Riga, 2008). In the early nineteenth century, with the Romantic movement and its popularisation of mediaeval folklore and texts, Merlin is revived as a druid sage and mage. Merlin has his high point in 1860 in Merlin, The Enchanter by Edgar Quinet. In this alteration, Merlin is the creator of civilisations, of all arts and sciences and he can live after death in a tomb which forms a kingdom as large as Europe (Riga, 2008). Until today, Merlin remains a popular figure in series and literature and serves as an inspiration to wizards such as Gandalf in The Lord of The Rings.