The #RingsOfPower (connected to The #InfinityStones maybe?) #OneRingToRuleThemAll #OneRing #TheLordOfTheRings #Ring #EngagementRing #WeddingRing #RingTone #RingaLing
'That word' is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...
The word “Ring” is built on “to |Turn, |Bend” (|Circle |Around ... the word for 'to |Make the ringing Sound' is probably imitative (specialized in the sense of 'to Give a Resonant sound to signify |Genuineness or |Purity')).
That explains a little bit of 'why Eagles wouldn't take
The poem (recited in 'the dark language of Mordor' above) is part of an epigraph Tolkien added:
"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie." —J.R.R. Tolkien's epigraph to The Lord of the Rings
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."
The three Elf-rings were forged separately from The Dark Lord Sauron. When Sauron forged The One Ring & gave it the power to control wearers of the other rings, Elves had all 19 of the rings. When he put the ruling ring on his finger though, the wearers of the 16 weaker rings sensed it & threw them right off!
When they did this, Sauron waged war on the elves to get them all back; but the elves managed to save the most-powerful three, and would only use them to aid healing & resist evil (never for war or domination).
Sauron gave seven of the remaining rings to Dwarf-kings, and nine to Human-kings.
It's not clear 'exactly what the rings did': The Elf-rings were different from the other 17 (16 Rings of Power with The One Ring), because the smith Celebrimbor forged them 'without Sauron's goal in mind.'
The One Ring infamously 'made its wearer invisible' (or maybe 'shifted their phase into a different dimension' (or some-such 'sci-fi nerd'-talk)), although 1) the Ring-Wraiths could still see & -could perhaps more-easily locate the wearer and 2) one who wore The One Ring could clearly see the Ring-Wraiths in their glorious, kingly forms (as opposed to the dark-hooded riders they appeared to be to anyone not wearing a Ring of Power).
ALL the rings made their carriers 'immortal' (not "unkillable," but rather 'unaging' ... although aging without "growing" does make one feel (as Bilbo said after having The One Ring for so long) "very stretched"). Tho this is probably only a side-effect, as the original ring-bearers were all naturally immortal already.
The four Ring-types actually were different (unless that's just because they were worn by different species), as shown by 'whether the Ring made its wearer invisible' (I never saw an Elf 'turn invisible,' the dwarves didn't 'turn invisible,' the humans only 'changed form,' and the hobbits were the only ones who ever did turn invisible (you remember the gangrel Gollum once was the hobbit Smeagol)).
In fact, maybe The Rings are like The Mask (of Loki)—they amplify the personality of the wearer. Maybe that's why it gave kings the power to rule ... because 'to rule' was their nature.
The Elves were given The Rings named Narya (The Red Ring, The Ring of Fire), Nenya (The White Ring, The Ring of Water, The Ring of Adamant) & Vilya (The Blue Ring, The Ring of Air, The Ring of Sapphire, The Dominant Ring).
The seven dwarf-rings were given to the lords of seven lands: Durin's Folk, Firebeards, Broadbeams, Ironfists, Stiffbeards, Blacklocks, and Stonefoots. (The Lord of the Rings trilogy doesn't mention 'what happened to them,' but my source says that four of them were destroyed by dragon-fire & the rest were reacquired by Sauron.)
Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
him why he's not"—Won't you show me
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
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