The One Ring is an artifact that appears as a central plot element in J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (1954-55). This is described in the previous story, The Hobbit (1937), as a transparent miraculous ring. In his sequel, Lord of the Rings, Tolkien associates the Ring with a darker character, with an evil power going far beyond transparent vision: it was created by Sauron the Dark Lord as part of his plan to win. ruled over Middle-earth. Lord of the Rings regarding the quest to destroy the Ring to keep Sauron from filling his design.
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Literature
In the The Lord of the Rings and which was posthumously published The Silmarillion , Tolkien gave a detailed internal development of the forging of the Ring to its destruction. In the context of Middle-earth fiction, these events occurred for several thousand years in the Second and Third Periods of Arda.
Description
The One Ring was forged by Dark Lord Sauron during the Second Age to gain dominance over the Middle-earth free society. In disguise as Annatar , or "Lord of Gifts", he assisted the Elion pawn of Eregion and their leader, Celebrimbor, in the making of Power Rings. He then forged One Ring himself in the fire of Mount Doom.
Sauron intends to be the most powerful of all Rings, able to govern and control those who wear others. Because the other Ring was strong, Sauron was obliged to put most of his own strengths to One to achieve his goal.
Creating the Ring simultaneously strengthens and weakens Sauron's strength. On the one hand, as long as Sauron has the Ring, he can control the power of all other Rings, and thus he is significantly stronger after his creation than ever before; and put most of his own strength into the Ring ensures the continued existence of Sauron as long as the Ring is present. On the other hand, by binding its power within the Ring, Sauron becomes dependent on it - without it, its power decreases significantly.
Appearance
The ring seems to be made only of gold, but it is resistant to damage. It can be destroyed simply by throwing it into the hole of Mount Doom where it was originally forged. Unlike other rings, Ring One is not vulnerable to dragon fire. Like some of the lower rings that are forged by the Elf as "essays in crafts" - but unlike the other Power Rings - the One Ring contains no gems. His identity can be determined by a little-known but simple test: when placed on fire, it is shown fiery Tengwar inscriptions in the Black Speech from Mordor, with two lines of story poetry describing Rings:
Three Rings for Elven Kings under the sky,
Seven for Dwarves nobles in their stone castle,
Nine for Mortal Man destined to die,
One for the Dark Prince in his dark throne In Mordor Land where Shadows lie.
One Ring to set everything, One Ring to find it,
One Ring to bring them all and in the dark bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
The lines inscribed on the Ring (in bold above) were uttered by Sauron as he faked the Ring. The Elven smiths heard him chanting them, and then realized his purpose and took off their own Rings to thwart his plans.
A person who wears the Ring will enter a shadow world that reveals the physical world from different aspects, from which the physical object is harder to see. The wearer is largely invisible to ordinary creatures, like Humans, but is very visible to NazgÃÆ'Â »l. The ring dimmed the view of the wearer, while at the same time sharpening the other senses.
The enigmatic Tom Bombadil seems unaffected by the Ring and has power over it; when he wore the Ring, it did not make him invisible, and Frodo could not become invisible to him by wearing the Ring. Also, Tom plays with the Ring like a magician borrowing someone's watch for a hoax, apparently making him disappear and reappear.
The ring slowly but surely damages its carrier, regardless of the carrier's initial intentions. For this reason, the Wise, including Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel, refused to use them on their own, but instead decided that it should be destroyed. The destructive power of the ring seems to be stronger in individuals more inclined to evil and selfishness: it takes almost immediately from greedy greedy agria as soon as he sees it, and Boromir breaks down after a few months of close proximity, while the effect is only beginning to be seen in Bilbo meaning after sixty years of ownership.
The ring has the ability to resize. As well as adapting to the radii of various sizes, from Sauron to Frodo, sometimes suddenly expanded to escape from the wearer.
Post
The words of the inscription ring in the Black Speech, the language made by Sauron and used on the land of Mordor. The inscription reflects the power of the Ring to control the other Power Rings. The writing is in the letters of Elves (tengwar), in the mode (ie the orthography) adapted to the Black Speech.
Usually the One Ring looks very innocent and unmatched, but when heated his writing appears in flaming letters. The picture of the inscriptions and translations provided by Gandalf appears in Book I, Chapter 2 of The Fellowship of the Ring , â € Å"The Past Showdownâ €.
Gandalf uttered the words in the Black Speech in Book II, Chapter 2, "The Council of Elrond":
Ash nazg durbatulÃÆ' »k, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulÃÆ' »k agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
Translated, meaning the words:
One ring to set everything, one ring to find it,
One ring to bring them all and in the dark bind them.
When Isildur took the Ring from Sauron's hand, it burned hot, so the letters were readable. Isildur was able to write down the inscription before it faded as the Ring cooled. This transcription survives in the document that Isildur left in Gondor before marching north to Gladden Fields, where he was killed and the Ring lost.
Gandalf learns about the inscription of the Ring as he reads the story of Isildur. When Gandalf then heated the ring that Bilbo Baggins had left to Frodo, the inscription reappeared. The wizard then has no doubt that Frodo's ring is the One Ring. When Gandalf read the words on Black Speech in the Council of Elrond, everyone trembled:
The sound of the wizard's voice is shocking. Suddenly it becomes threatening, strong, rough like a rock. A shadow looks past the high sun, and the porch briefly darkens. All trembled, and the Elf stopped their ears.
The first Ballantine paperback edition of The Fellowship of the Ring prints upside down. The last few editions have inadvertently omitted the first half of translation in Book I, Chapter 2. This error is fixed in the 50th Anniversary edition.
Ring-bearers
The term Ring-bearer is used in The Lord of the Rings to describe someone who already has the Ring. This term is also used to refer to the carrier of other Power Rings.
In the Lord of the Rings , Frodo Baggins was appointed Ring-bearer by the Council of Elrond in Rivendell. His job was to bring the One Ring from Rivendell to Crack of Doom in Mordor and destroy it before Sauron or his servant could recover it. During this trip, Samingo Gamgee's colleague from Frodo also took the ring for a while, while Frodo was held in the Cirith Ungol Tower. Near the beginning of this journey, the Ring was handled also by Tom Bombadil, to which the Ring had no real effect, and by Gandalf, who threw it into Frodo's hearth to verify that it was the First Ring.
Frodo inherited the Ring from his uncle Bilbo Baggins. In Tolkien's previous novel, The Hobbit , Bilbo found the Ring in the caves beneath the Misty Mountains. It was lost in the caves by Gollum, who used the transparency to negotiate for orcs to eat. Gollum, the hobbit formerly known as Sma Ã… © agol, has kept the Ring for hundreds of years. He has killed his friend DÃÆ' Â © agol to get the Ring as soon as DÃÆ' Â © agol found it in the Anduin river. Centuries earlier, the Ring had betrayed Isildur and fell from his finger to the Anduin as he avoided the orcs - who killed him when he became visible. Isildur in turn had cut the Ring from the hands of Sauron, who had made the Ring and allowed most of its power to flow into it. Sauron is the true master of the Ring, and the only one who can bend it fully with his will.
Although DÃÆ' Â © agol and Gandalf have handled the Ring, the only people who ever used it were Sauron, Isildur, Sma © agol/Gollum, Bilbo, Frodo, Tom Bombadil, and Samwise. None but Bilbo, Frodo, and Samwise are actually called "Ring-bearers" in one of Tolkien's works. As Ring-bearers, they were given a portion to the Land of Death, though Sam lived in the Shire for many years after the departure of Bilbo and Frodo before traveling itself.
Internal history
After its original forging (around S.A.Ã, 1600) Sauron stormed the Elf and Sauron War against the Elves and all who opposed it. Sauron attacked and destroyed Eregion, and killed Celebrimbor, the maker of the Three Elf rings. However, King Tar-Minastir of NÃÆ'Âmenmenor sent a large fleet to Middle-earth, and with this help Gil-galad destroyed the Sauron forces and forced Sauron to return to Mordor.
In S.A. 3261, Ar-PharazÃÆ''n, the last king of NÃÆ'Âmenmenor, landed at Umbar at the head of a large army to battle Sauron. The large size and strength of the NÃÆ'º â € žÃÆ' ¢ à ¢ â,¬Â ³rean army is enough to force the Sauron forces to flee. Sauron surrendered to Ar-PharazÃ'n and was brought back to NÃÆ'Âmenmenor as prisoner. Tolkien, in a letter written in 1958 (# 211) writes that the submission was either "voluntary and cunning" so he could gain access to NÃÆ' £ là © or. Sauron was able to use NÃÆ'ºmenÃÆ'³reans fears about death as a way to transform them against Valar, and manipulate them to worship his master, Morgoth, and perform human sacrifices.
Although Sauron's body was destroyed in the fall of the NÃÆ'ºmenor, his spirit was able to travel back to Middle-earth and use the Ring in his latest war against the Last Alliance of Elves and Men between SA 3429 and 3441. Tolkien emphasized that Sauron used his ring in NÃÆ'ºmenor to gain complete control over people the people; and while Sauron's body perish in the Fall, the Ring somehow manages to return to Middle-earth. Tolkien writes, "I do not think people need to spoil this spirit of bringing the Ring, where its dominating power of thought is now highly dependent." (letter # 211).
Sauron was killed again by Gil-galad and Elendil at the end of the Last Alliance. The ring was cut from the hands of Sauron by Elendil's son, Isildur, on the slope of Mount Doom. Despite being advised to destroy the Ring, he was influenced by his strength and kept it safely, "as a weregild for my father and my brother." A few years later, Isildur was ambushed by orc by Anduin River near Gladden Fields; he wears the Ring to escape, but it's apart from his finger when he swims across the river, and, suddenly seen, he was killed by the Orcs. Because the Ring indirectly caused Isildur's death, the Ring was known in the Gondorian story as "Isildur's Bane".
The ring remained hidden at the bottom of the river for nearly two and a half millennia, until it was discovered on a fishing trip by a Stoor hobbit named Dà © gà © agol. Her friend and relative Sma agol, who had fished with him, was immediately entangled by the power of the Ring and demanded that Dà © a agol give it to him as a "birthday present"; when Dà © a Agol refused, Smà © agol strangled her and took it for herself. The ring damages his body and mind, transforming it into a creature known as Gollum. The Ring, which Sauron has had his own will, manipulates Gollum hiding in a cave under the Misty Mountains near Mirkwood, where Sauron begins to reappear. There, Gollum survived for nearly 500 years, until the Ring was tired and fell from his finger while he was hunting Orcs.
As told in The Hobbit , Bilbo discovered the Ring shortly afterwards when it was lost in a tunnel near Gollum's nest. When The Hobbit was written, Tolkien did not yet understand the evil history of the Ring. So, in the first edition of The Hobbit , Gollum offers to hand over the Ring to Bilbo as a reward for winning the Game Riddle. When Tolkien revises the nature of the Ring for Lord of the Rings, he realizes that the Ring's grip on Gollum will never allow him to surrender voluntarily. Therefore Tolkien revises the second edition of The Hobbit: after losing the Riddle Game to Bilbo, Gollum goes to get "Precious" (as he always said) so he can kill and eat Bilbo, but flies into angry when he finds the Ring is gone. Concluding from Bilbo's last question - "What do I get in my pocket?" - that Bilbo had found the Ring, Gollum pursued it through the cave, unaware that the hobbit had found the penetrating power of the Ring and followed it for the exit of the cave. Bilbo escaped from Gollum and the goblins by remaining invisible, but when he rejoined Gandalf and the dwarves he was traveling on, he decided not to tell them that the Ring had made him invisible. In fact he told them a story that carefully followed the first edition of The Hobbit: that Gollum had given him the Ring and pointed the way out. Gandalf was unsure and then imposed a true story from Bilbo; Thus he was immediately suspicious of the Ring.
Gollum finally left the Misty Mountains to track down and reclaim the Ring. He wandered around for several decades, and is attracted to Mordor, where he was captured by the forces of Sauron. He was interrogated by Sauron himself, who knew that the Ring had been found and is currently held by a "Baggins" on the ground "Shire".
In T.A. 3001, the Ring begins to stiffen Bilbo, making him feel "stretched and thin", so he decides to leave the Shire, intending to surrender the Ring to his adopted heir, Frodo Baggins. He briefly succumbed to the power of the Ring, even calling it "my precious"; worried, Gandalf talked rudely to his old friend to persuade him to surrender, which Bilbo finally did, becoming the first Ringbearer to surrender it voluntarily.
By this time Sauron had regained most of his strength, and the Dark Tower in Mordor had been rebuilt. Gollum, who was freed from Mordor, was captured by Gandalf and Aragorn, and from him Gandalf learned that Sauron now knew where to find the Ring. To prevent Sauron from recapturing his Ring, Frodo and eight other colleagues set out from Rivendell for Mordor in an attempt to destroy the Ring in the fire of Mount Doom. During the search, Frodo gradually becomes more and more vulnerable to the power of the Ring, and is afraid that it will destroy it. When he and his loyal partner Samwise Gamgee find Gollum in their path and "tame" him to guide them to Mordor, Frodo begins to feel a strange bond with a cunning and dangerous creature, while Gollum warms himself with Frodo's goodness and does at least some effort. to keep his promise. Gollum finally succumbs to the temptation of the Ring, however, and betrays them to the Shelob spider. Because he trusted Frodo to die, Sam bore the Ring itself for a short time and experienced the temptations it caused; She wore it twice, but never gave up.
Sam rescues Frodo from a group of orcs in the Cirith Ungol Tower. The hobbits, followed by Gollum, finally arrived at Mount Doom, where Frodo was ruled by the power of the Ring and claimed it for himself. However, at that moment, Gollum attacked him and bit his finger, retrieving the Ring. Gollum is too close to the edge: when he rejoices over his gift, he falls into the fire of Mount Doom, takes the Ring with him, thus destroying it and the power of Sauron.
Powers
The main strength of the Ring is to control the other Rings of Power and the dominance of the desires of its users. The Ring also confers the power to dominate the will of other beings whether they wear the Ring or not - but only in proportion to the original capacity of the user. In the same way, it reinforces the inherent strength of the owner.
A man who wears the Ring becomes invisible effectively unless they are able to see a non-physical world, with only a thin, shaky shadow that can be seen in the brightest sunlight. The ring will also extend the life of infinite mortal owners by preventing natural aging. Gandalf explains that it does not "give new life", but the owner just "continues" until life becomes exhausting. However, the Ring can not protect its bearers from destruction; Gollum perished in the Crack of Doom while in possession of the Ring, and even Sauron himself could not keep his body from destruction during the destruction of NÃÆ'º là © or. Likewise, the Ring can not protect its bearers from physical harm; Frodo was badly wounded by the Witch King on Weathertop, and lost his finger when Gollum bit him - on both occasions while wearing the Ring. Sauron himself suffered the death of his physical body in the hands of Gil-galad and Elendil while wearing the Ring. Like the Nine Rings, Ring One can physically damage humans who wear it for a long time, eventually turning them into ghosts. Hobbits are more resistant to this process than Men: Gollum, who has a five-hundred-year-old ring does not become like a ghost because he does not often wear a ring after taking it to the Misty Mountains tunnel.
The ring may also give the user the ability to read minds, as Galadriel suggested to Frodo when he wondered why he could not read other people's minds as he did.
In the land of Mordor where he is forged, the power of the Ring increases so significantly that even without wearing it, the bearer can take advantage of it, and may acquire an aura of terrible power. When Sam meets the Orc at the Cirith Ungol Tower while holding the Ring, he appears in orcs as powerful warriors hiding in the shadows "[holding] some unknown threats of power and calamity." Orc was so scared to run away. Similarly in Mount Doom, when Frodo and Sam were attacked by Gollum, Frodo reached for the Ring and emerged as "a white-robed figure... [who held the wheel of fire." Frodo told Gollum "in a ruling voice" that "If you touch me again, you will be cast into the Fire of Death," a statement is fulfilled when Gollum falls to Mount Doom with the Ring. Although the Ring is certainly called by this statement, it is unclear whether Frodo prophesied (Frodo had previously seen less evil visions when having the Ring), or if Frodo actively laid down the curse on Gollum.
Since the Ring contains most of Sauron's powers, he has many kinds of evil feelings. When separated from Sauron, the Ring will seek to return to him by manipulating his carrier to claim his ownership, or by leaving the bearer at the right time. For example, it slipped from Isildur's finger during an ambush in Gladden Fields; moments later he was killed by the orc, leaving the existence of a Ring unknown to Sauron's enemy. It also releases Gollum's finger when the time is right to be brought back to the world at large. Warned by Bilbo about the tendency of the Ring to take off, Frodo brought the Ring to the chain.
To master all the Ring's abilities, a Ring user will require disciplined and trained minds, strong will, and great native power. Those with a weak mind, like the Hobbit and the Lower Man, will benefit little from the Ring, much less realize its full potential. Even for someone with the necessary strength, it will take time to master the power of the Ring to the point where he is strong enough to overthrow Sauron. The prospect of mastery is the main attraction the Ring has for those who come into contact with it. The ring appears as a symbol of hope, offering strength to defeat Sauron and bring peace to the world. But in the end, the malice inherent in them would turn the bearer into a Dark God as evil as Sauron, regardless of one's intentions at first.
Despite its strength, the Ring does not make its owner omnipotent. Three times Sauron suffered a military defeat while carrying the Ring, first by Gil-galad in the Sauron and Elf War, again by Ar-PharazÃÆ'Â'n when the power of NÃÆ' º â € žÃÆ'â € ž ÃÆ'  ¢ ÃÆ' ¢ ÃÆ'  ¢ à ¢ over¬Ã, ÃÆ' ¢ à ¢ over¬Ã, ÃÆ' ¢ à ¢ overìÃ... ÃÆ'  ¢ à ¢ over¬Ã ¢ â,¬Â ÃÆ' ¢ à ¢ overìà ¢ â,¬ÂÃÆ' ¢ ÃÆ' ¢ à ¢ â,‰,¬Ã ¢ â,¬Â ¢ ÃÆ' ¢ ÃÆ' ¢ à ¢ â € Å"à ¢ â,¬Â Zaman Second with his personal defeat by Gil-galad and Elendil. Tolkien points out, however, that such a defeat would not have been possible in the years of diminishing from the Third Age, when the independence of the people was greatly diminished. No hero left of Gil-galad, Elendil, or Isildur figure; Elf's strength faded and they departed to the Blessed Nature; The Dwarves have been expelled from Moria and did not want to concentrate their power in any event; and the kingdom of NÃÆ'ºmenÃÆ'³rean either denied or destroyed, and only had little ally.
Ring carrier fate
Of the few bearers of the One Ring, three are still alive after the destruction of the Ring, the hobbits of Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, and Samwise Gamgee. Bilbo, having endured the longest Ring of all three, has reached a very advanced age for the hobbit. Frodo suffered physical and psychological injuries from his heavy efforts to destroy the Ring. Samwise, who only briefly holds the Ring, is affected least and only resumes normal life after the destruction of the Ring.
Taking into account the trial experienced by the Ring-bearers, a special dispensation was given to them by Valar to travel to the Land of Death, where it was hoped that they could find rest and healing. At the end of the King's Return, Bilbo and Frodo embarked on a journey to the West along with Galadriel, Elrond, and many of their people, as well as Gandalf. Near the end of his life, Samwise was also said to have been taken to the Land of Death, having lived in the Shire for many years and raised a large family.
Tolkien emphasized that the rest stop of Ring-Bearers in the Land of Death would not be permanent. As humans, subject to the Human Gifts, they will eventually die and leave the world of EÃÆ'¤.
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Symbolism
Tolkien wrote the following about the idea behind the Ring: "I must say that it is a mythical way of representing the truth that potential (or potentially) if it is to be implemented, and to fruition, must be externalized and so forth. larger or smaller, from one's direct control "(Sura # 211, 1958).
Tolkien has always held that Lord of the Rings is not allegorical, especially in relation to political events of his time such as World War II or the Cold War. At the same time it recognizes "application" as the "freedom" of the reader, and indeed many people tend to see the Ring as a symbol or metaphor. The idea of ​​a force that is too great for a human to possess safely is something that is intriguing, and already in the 1930s there was technology available to suggest the idea. By the time the work was published, though not when it was mostly written, the existence of nuclear power and nuclear weapons was common knowledge, and the Ring was often regarded as a symbol of them. The Ring effect and its physical and spiritual side effects on Bilbo and Frodo are obsessions that have been compared to drug addiction; The actor Andy Serkis who plays Gollum in the movie trilogy calls drug addiction an inspiration for his performance.
The parallel has been drawn between the literary tool of the Ring of the Cursed Tolkien and the titular ring in Richard Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen . Tolkien dismisses the direct comparison of critics with Wagner, telling his publisher, "The two rings are round, and there are similarities vanishing." According to Tolkien Humphrey Carpenter's biography, the authors propose Wagner's interpretation of relevant Germanic myths in contempt. In contrast, some critics argue that Tolkien's work borrows so liberally from Wagner that Tolkien's work is in the shadow of Wagner. Others, like Tom Shippey and Gloriana St. Clair, linking the resemblance to the fact that Tolkien and Wagner have created homologous works based on the same source. However, Shippey and other researchers have written in intermediate positions, stating that the two authors are, indeed, using the same source material but Tolkien is, in fact, indebted to some of the original developments, insights and artistic uses made at the sources that first appeared in Wagner, and tried to fix them.
Adaptations
In the BBC Radio 1981 series of The Lord of the Rings , NazgÃÆ'Â »l say the Rings; it was also read by them in part during Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, especially during the movie The Battle of the Five Armies.
In the movie trilogy of The Lord of the Rings, the Ring user is always described as moving through the shadow world where everything is distorted. In the book both Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins never mention anything about this when using the Ring, but when Sam puts the Ring at the end of The Two Towers he experiences something similar to this. Sam never wore the Ring on the screen in Jackson movies. The ring for the actual film is designed and made by Jens Hansen Gold & amp; Silversmith in Nelson, New Zealand, and is based on a simple wedding ring.
See also
- Ring of Gyges
- Ring of the Nibelung
Note
References
- Carpenter, Humphrey, ed. (1981), JRR Tolkien's Letters , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-31555-7
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