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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 716041" data-attributes="member: 6875">Oh, how wrong that is.  The One Ring was not "a magic item" ... the one ring was THE major artifact ... we're talking, "Hand and Eye of Vecna, eat your heart out" artifact.  Even if Frodo never figured out much beyond going invisible with it.And then there were the other Great Rings.Inm Sindarin:Corf neledh 'nin Ellerain nui venel,    Odo'ni Nauhírath vi rynd gonui în, Neder'ni Fîr Fírib beraid fíred,    Êr am Morchír bo morn-orchamm dîn Vi Dor e-Mordor ias i-Ndúath caedar.    Er-chorf a thorthad hain bain, Er-chorf a chired hain,    Er-chorf a thoged hain bain a din fuin an nuded hain Vi Dor e-Mordor ias i-Ndúath caedar. Or, in English:Three rings for the Elven Kings,  Under the Sky  Seven Rings for Dwarven Lords,  In their Halls of StoneNine rings for Mortal Men  Doomed to dieOne ring to Rule them all, one ring to find them  One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind themIn the land of Mordor, where the shadows lay.(forgive me if I am in error on the precise wording, especially as regards the Elven rings; I haven't seen the entire poem in english since I was ... gosh, since I was twelve years old ... possibly before some of you folks were BORN ... gah now I feel old ...).However, all in all, there were no less than TWENTY of the "great rings" ... and I distinctly remember in the books where Gandalf explains -- to Frodo I think -- that there are any number of "lesser" magical rings, but very few GREAT rings.IOW, the One Ring is a major MAJOR artifact.  The Rod of Seven Parts has NOTHING on the One Ring![edit: apologies if I sound snippish; any frustration showing through above is due to not finding the ENGLISH version online, but finding the sindarin "translation" no less than SIX times ... feh!!  Anyway, no offense is intended.]</blockquote>

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