23 Facts About One Ring

One Ring, called the Ruling Ring and Isildur's Bane, is a central plot element in JR R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

One Ring was forged by the Dark Lord Sauron during the Second Age to gain dominion over the free peoples of Middle-earth.

One Ring seemed to be made simply of gold, but it was completely impervious to damage, even to dragon fire.

One Ring destroyed Eregion and killed Celebrimbor, the maker of the three Elf-rings.

Sauron's body was destroyed in the Fall of Numenor, but his spirit travelled back to Middle-earth and wielded the One Ring in renewed war against the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.

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Since the One Ring indirectly caused Isildur's death, it was known in Gondorian lore as "Isildur's Bane".

One Ring remained hidden on the river bed for almost two and a half millennia, until it was discovered on a fishing trip by a Stoor hobbit named Deagol.

The One Ring manipulated Gollum into hiding in a cave under the Misty Mountains near Mirkwood, where Sauron was beginning to resurface.

The Ring eventually abandoned Gollum, knowing it would never leave the cave whilst he bore it.

One Ring therefore revised The Hobbit: in the second edition, after losing the Riddle Game to Bilbo, Gollum went to get his "Precious" to help him kill and eat Bilbo, but found the Ring missing.

Sauron tortured and interrogated him, learning that the Ring had been found and was held by one "Baggins" in the land of "Shire".

One Ring began to strain Bilbo, leaving him feeling "stretched-out and thin", so he decided to leave the Shire, intending to pass the One Ring to his adopted heir Frodo Baggins.

One Ring briefly gave in to the Ring's power, even calling it "my precious"; alarmed, Gandalf spoke harshly to his old friend to persuade him to give it up, which Bilbo did, becoming the first Ring-bearer to surrender it willingly.

At that moment, Gollum bit off his finger, taking back the One Ring, but, gloating, he and the One Ring fell into the fires of Mount Doom.

Mortal wearing the One Ring became effectively invisible except to those able to perceive the non-physical world, with only a thin, shaky shadow discernible in the brightest sunlight.

One Ring extended the life of a mortal possessor indefinitely, preventing natural aging.

The One Ring did not protect its bearer from destruction; Gollum perished in the Crack of Doom, and Sauron's body was destroyed in the downfall of Numenor.

When Sam encountered an Orc in the Tower of Cirith Ungol while holding the One Ring, he appeared to the terrified Orc as a powerful warrior cloaked in shadow "[holding] some nameless menace of power and doom".

One Ring stated that had the Second World War "inspired or directed the development of the legend" as an allegory, then the fate of the Ring, and of Middle-earth, would have been very different:.

In contrast, Tolkien's One Ring actively exerts an evil force that destroys the morality of the wearer.

The One Ring needs to be destroyed to save Middle-earth itself from destruction or domination by Sauron.

One Ring offers power to its wearer, and progressively corrupts the wearer's mind to evil.

Tabletop roleplaying game set in Middle-earth and called "The One Ring" was manufactured by Cubicle 7; a new edition is planned by a partnership of Sophisticated Games and Free League Publishing from 2020.