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One Ring
Sign in to saveAlso known as Master-ring, My precious, the One Ring, One Ring to rule them all, Ash nazg, Isildur's Bane
fictional object from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium
Key facts
- First appearance
- The Hobbit (1937)
- Created by
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Type
- Magical ring
- Owners
- Sauron (creator)
- Function
- Invisibility Power augmentation Will domination Control over other Rings of Power made with Sauron 's ring magic
- Traits and abilities
- Plain gold ring; glowing inscription appears when ring is placed in flames; can change in size by its own will
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- One Ring inscription.svg
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- Commons category
- The One Ring
- inscription
- Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
- native label
- The One Ring
- Stack Exchange tag
- scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/the-one-ring
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Article
The One Ring, also called the Ruling Ring, Isildur's Bane, or the Precious, is a central plot element in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). It first appeared in the earlier story The Hobbit (1937) as a magic ring that grants the wearer invisibility. Tolkien changed it into a malevolent Ring of Power and rewrote parts of The Hobbit to fit in with the expanded narrative. The Lord of the Rings describes the hobbit Frodo Baggins's quest to destroy the Ring and save Middle-earth.
Scholars have compared the story with the ring-based plot of Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen; Tolkien denied any connection, but scholars state that at the least, both men certainly drew on the same mythology. Another source is Tolkien's analysis of Nodens, an obscure pagan god with a temple at Lydney Park, where he studied the Latin inscriptions, one containing a curse on the thief of a ring.