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  • These books are all about this ring. How it's found and [spoiler alert] how it's destroyed.

  • While Tolkien built the largest and most consistent fictional universe he sure didn't mind being

  • vague at times -- so if you finished the story and then thought: wait, what can this ring

  • do and where did it come from? This is your video.

  • First thing first: The One Ring is not the only ring -- it's Lord of the Ring*s*, after

  • all -- and that lord is Sauron.

  • Long before this story starts, Sauron disguised himself and came to the elves to work with

  • their master craftsman Celebrimbor to forge the rings of power. Together they made 16

  • -- called the lesser rings, then Celebrimbor took Sauron's formula and made three on his

  • own that turned out more powerful than the original 16.

  • Why make rings based on the suggestion of a stranger whose resume has a millennia-long

  • gap? Because he promised the rings would fix the Elves biggest problem: this world is winding

  • down. The amount of big and awesome and magic decreases as a function of time here.

  • For elves, magic *immortal* creatures, this is bad news. Sauron said the rings would preserve

  • what their wearers cared about most. That's why the Elven kingdoms are so fantastical

  • compared to the rest of the world -- their rings have preserved them

  • Unlike the famous poem implies, the elves made all the rings for themselves intending

  • exactly 0 to get into the hands of men or dwarves, whom the elves think are stinky -- so

  • obviously something went wrong. Which brings us back to The One Ring to rule them all.

  • Sauron's chief ability's is to dominate the minds of others -- that's partly why he's

  • able to control such large armies -- and he secretly made the The One Ring as a kind of

  • lens to focus this power -- his formula for ring construction, unknown to Celebrimbor,

  • also made the wearers of the nineteen rings more vulnerable.

  • Basically: The One Ring buffs his psy attack and the other rings debuf psy defense.

  • Plan A was to control a bunch of high-level elves. But when he put The One ring on, the

  • elves' base-level stats allowed them to resist and take off their rings just in time.

  • Sauron captured Celebrimbor and tortured him until he gave up the 16 lesser rings -- but

  • he died before revealing who was protecting the three most powerful ones.

  • So Sauron now had 16 mind-controlling rings and had to turn to plan B: dwarves.

  • Sauron manipulated sevens rings into the hands of the dwarven kings but that didn't work

  • well either -- Dwarves are a kind of clockwork creature Sauron found impossible to control.

  • But the rings weren't super helpful for dwarves either who loved treasure above all else so

  • the rings grew their hordes large enough to attract dragons who ate the dwarves and their

  • precious rings.

  • Finally, in the hands of men, ever the corruptible species, the rings worked as expected: Sauron

  • controlled their minds. And, as mortals, they valued their lives the most, which the rings

  • stretched for 1,000s of years. Stretched so thin the men turn into invisible wraiths.

  • Anyway, these domination plans don't go unnoticed, there�s a big war -- Sauron is defeated

  • and fades and The One Ring is lost.

  • But the One ring is tricksy. It has a mind of its own and wants to get back to Sauron,

  • which brings us back to its powers:

  • First: the ring tempts everyone (Well, almost everyone) with promises that, yes this little

  • ring can be a mighty weapon or a tool to reshape the world, and gosh, don't you just look like

  • the best guy to use it? Let's go vanquish the powerful-demigod who lives over there

  • to get started, shall we. Hmmm?

  • This is why the Hobbits made great ring bearers: because they're pretty happy with the way

  • things are and don't aspire to greatness. Of course, there's Gollum who started out

  • as a hobbit, but all things considered he held out pretty well for a couple hundred

  • years. Set the ring on the desk of most men and they wouldn't be able to finish their

  • coffee before heading to Mordor to rule the world and do it right this time.

  • It's worth considering that The One Ring's promises are just lies -- that no one could

  • *really* overthrow Sauron with it -- The Ring only wants to trick its wearer to get found

  • which brings us to...

  • Invisibility.

  • Which outside the minds of characters, is the only, tangible power the ring displays

  • for everyone else -- Invisibility seems great -- but while you're hiding from that troll

  • you shine like a beacon in the unseen world. Where the, also invisible ring wraiths, can

  • easily spot you.

  • In summary:

  • The One Ring a) Turns you invisible in the most unhelpful

  • manner b) Is probably filled with lies, because

  • c) It's part of Sauron and works for him.

  • He's so connected to it, that its destruction ends him for good. But the formula also intertwines

  • The One Ring with all the rest. And so when it fails, so do they.

  • This is why the elves are *so somber*. Victory over Sauron also means that the rings won't

  • preserve their kingdoms anymore -- and all will diminish. These books are the end of

  • the age of magic and the beginning of the age of men.

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  • artwork, I�ve made a wallpaper pack of every piece of art available over at Patreon. Theyre

  • all available in 4K so you can use them on anything from a huge screen all the way down

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These books are all about this ring. How it's found and [spoiler alert] how it's destroyed.

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一指環解釋。(指環王神話第二部) (The One Ring Explained. (Lord of the Rings Mythology Part 2))

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