My post got eaten when I made a spastic click when trying to post it.
Maybe people believed this Lord of the Rings stuff and didn't realize it was just a fantasy movie.
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"One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."—The inscription upon the One RingThe greatest of the Rings of Power and the most powerful artifact in all of Middle-Earth, the One Ring was created by the Dark Lord Sauron in the fires of Orodruin during the Second Age. His intent was to concentrate and enlarge his own power, and in time gain overlordship of all Middle-Earth. Sauron also wanted control over the other Rings of Power, which had been made by Celebrimbor and his people with Sauron's assistance.
To do this, he concentrated within the One a great part of his own fëa ("soul" or "spirit") by cutting through his hand that was holding the gold, and letting his evil bind with the molten gold. In a sense, the Ring became an extension of Sauron himself, and his power became bound to it.
It was also known as the Ruling Ring, the Master Ring, the Doom of Man, and Isildur's Bane. The Andvarinaut in the Völsungasaga is considered to have been the main inspiration. The story of the Quest to destroy the Ring is told in Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, as is most of the Ring's history.
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How long something has been around doesn't really say much about it. Mobile Cyberspace has been around really only 3 or 4 years but it's already much more valuable than all the gold combined and people are spending all day carrying Cyberphones, not gold, and they are poking at them constantly. Fire was around a lot longer than gold but not many people huddle in front of a camp fire or even a fireplace to keep warm these days. Stones were popular for 100s of thousands of years, but the stone age has pretty well finished.
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