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What is that ring made

Prepositions. Exercises.-1

Упражнение 1. Choose the correct answer.

1. I have three dogs. All / Every of them love going for a walk, but none / neither of them likes being brushed.

2. You can borrow either / each the Renault or the Rover. They’re all / both in the garage.

3. My two daughters are each / both good at languages, but none / neither of them can do maths at all.

4.I have a shower every / each day.

5. I’ve got thirty people in my class, and every / each student is special to me.

7. I have any / no idea how I spend all my money. At the end of every / either month, it’s all gone.

8. I know every / each word of his songs by heart.

9. There are fifteen rooms in this hotel. Each / Every room is a little different.

13. I know either / both Robert and his brother, but I don’t like both / either of them.

14. “Can you help me with my homework?” “Sure. None / No problem.”

15. I have four brothers. Every / Each of us is different.

16. Jim can’t swim well. Neither / Either can his sister.

17. After the accident both / either car stopped. Both / Either drivers got out and started shouting at each other.

18. “ Is today the 19th or 20th?” “ Neither / None. It’s the 21st.”

19. We drove along the wide road with trees on either / both side.

20. These are both / neither very gloomy rooms. I’m afraid, neither / none will suit me.

Упражнение 2. Fill in the gaps with the correct preposition. There can be no preposition at all.

1. Barbara plays_____________ the piano well.

2 ____________ my mind, it was the most stupid thing he could do.

3. Translate these words ____________English_________ Russian.

4. My brother gave the money _________me.

5. Learn this poem_________ heart.

6. At last I opened the can_____________a knife.

7. I go to school ________foot, but yesterday I went to school ________bus.

8. “ Winnie-the-Pooh” is written _________Alan Milne.

9. Give__________ him that book, please.

10. My aunt lives____ the ground floor _______a fourteen-storey block______ flats.

11. What is that ring made ________?

13. According ______the forecast the weather will remain better than usual for this time of year.

14. ____________ first she cried bitter tears, and then explained what was the matter.

15. What was the reason ______________his absence?

16. Why has he fallen___________love_______ such a strange girl?

17. The banks close__________7 o’clock_______ the evening.

18. He usually leaves home early____the morning and comes back late ____night.

20. The play begins_________half past seven.

21. We arrived____ London_____ the 13th April and left Oxford only June.

22. Shakespeare died_______1616.

23. Bye, see you ________Tuesday!

24. Alice goes to the swimming pool ________every Saturday.

25. Bob is going to play tennis________next Sunday.

Упражнение 3. Fill in the gaps with the correct preposition. There can be no preposition at all.

1. I’m going to visit my friends___the end_____September.

2. ____________last summer we spent our holiday in France.

3. I hope you feel better_________ the time you get this letter.

4. She lived in that house______1985_____1988.

5. Mrs. Jackson lived in England________three years.

6. I haven’t seen her____________Monday.

7. Chris’s gone, but he’ll return________an hour.

8. She got married______________the age 19.

9. The train starts_______ 8.50, so you’d better be____the station _______time.

10. He arrived______Great Britain half a month ago.

11. He lived__________Chicago.

12. Let’s go___________the cinema.

13. My sister isn’t_______home, she is____________school.

14. Don’t you know that Carlson lived______a small house_________the roof.

15. Why can’t you find the newspaper? It’s_____ front____ you___ the window-sill.

16. My friends live ________Petrovka Street.

17. We’ll wait for you ________the station.

18. I’ve never been ________Paris.

19. When does your train arrive_________ the station?

20. Go_______ Gower Street till you see the Bloomsbury Theatre _______your right.

21. Pour some water________ the kettle, please.

22. We spent two lovely weeks________ the Mediterranean Sea.

23. Turn left________ the traffic lights.

24. My little brother is afraid _________ spiders.

25. Margie’s been absent ___________ school since Monday.

Exercise 1. 1 all, none, 2 either, both, 3 both, neither, 4 every, 5 each, 6 each, 7 no, every, 8 every, 9 Each, 10 either, both, 11 Neither, 12 Either, 13 both, either, 14 No, 15 Each, 16 Neither, 17 both, both, 18 Neither, 19 both, 20 both, neither, 21 either, 22 Neither.

What material was the One Ring made of?

Is there any detail in Tolkien’s work indicating what the One Ring was made of?

Some other magical material?

3 Answers 3

It was gold.

It may not be clear from LOTR itself whether it’s actually gold (the metal) or just golden (color), but History of Middle-Earth clarifies the matter, and also explains why Sauron chose gold:

Sauron’s power was not (for example) in gold as such, but in a particular form or shape made of a particular portion of total gold. Morgoth’s power was disseminated throughout Gold, if nowhere absolute (for he did not create Gold) it was nowhere absent. (It was this Morgoth-element in matter, indeed, which was a prerequisite for such ‘magic’ and other evils as Sauron practised with it and upon it.)

As far as I’m aware, Tolkien never mentioned what the One Ring’s material was.

We only know 2 things about it:

It looks like it’s made of gold (so platinum/mithril/silver are out).

It’s not destructible other than in the Orodruin volcano. But this is likely a magical property instead of physical/chemical one, so can’t tell us what the material is.

One further circumstantial confirmation that The One was made of gold:

Seven Rings given to Dwarves were made of gold:

It is said that the foundation of each of the Seven Hoards of the Dwarf-kings of old was a golden ring. (Source: The Silmarillion)

And all the rings made by Sauron (including the Seven Dwarven and The One) seemed to have been made using the same technology, as per the consensus of the answers to this SFF question (» Were there any differences between the Rings of power given to the Dwarves and the Men? » )

Gandalf, who probably knows as much about the Rings as anyone, refers several times to the Ring as being made of gold.

«‘Oh, are you indeed, my love,’ said Sméagol; and he caught Déagol by the throat and strangled him, because the gold looked so bright and beautiful.»

«Your small fire, of course, would not melt even ordinary gold. This Ring has already passed through it unscathed. «

Isildur thought the same, though he had less ring-lore than Gandalf, but in this case Tolkien is using him as an exposition device, so perhaps we can give his words something near to a narrator’s weight. Fellowship again, p. 253:

. and maybe were the gold made hot again, the writing would be refreshed.

There are also a few places where the narrator defines the material of the ring. For example in the Prologue, Fellowship p. 11:

He possessed a secret treasure that had come to him long ages ago, when he still lived in the light: a ring of gold that made its wearer invisible.

Frodo drew the ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, without mark or device that he could see. The gold looked very fair and pure, and Frodo thought how rich and beautiful was its colour

There are other mentions of ‘gold’ in relation to the ring, but these are the clearest that they’re referring to its material, not its colour. I think the second Gandalf quote is the closest to a slam-dunk we’re going to get without someone casting a Speak with Dead spell on Professor Tolkien himself.

What was in the One Ring that made it so powerful?

In the movie version of Fellowship of the Rings, at the beginning of film, we’re shown all the rings being forged, including Sauron’s One Ring of power. However, there’s no indication as to what Sauron did to that ring in order to make it so powerful, omnipotent, and extraordinarily evil. Did he conduct a spell? Sacrifice a poor maiden? Channel evil and malevolent spirits in order to make the ring so powerful and to have a sentient connection with Sauron? The ring was almost loyal, an interesting trait for an inanimate object.

How did Sauron create the One Ring with such an essence of malice, evil, and power?

9 Answers 9

The One Ring was created by the Dark Lord Sauron during the Second Age in order to gain dominion over the free peoples of Middle-earth. In disguise as Annatar, or «Lord of Gifts», he aided the Elven smiths of Eregion and their leader Celebrimbor in the making of the Rings of Power. He then forged the One Ring himself in the fires of Mount Doom.

Sauron intended it to be the most powerful of all Rings, able to rule and control those who wore the others. Since the other Rings were themselves powerful, Sauron was obliged to place much of his own power into the One to achieve his purpose.

I think putting a part of himself in the ring made it the dominating ring. Also, remember that when he lost it in the battle, Sauron became very weak.

There is no real explanation how the ring was made (except that it was forged in the depths of Mount Doom and that he specifically created it as a control device to control the wearers of the other, inferior rings like puppets).

For example, if I asked you to explain how you think, you would be hard pressed to come up with an answer. You could explain about the brain, self-consciousness and neurons and all. But that doesn’t explain «thinking». You just think. In the same way, elves bend physics. They just do it. It’s as natural for them as breathing, eating and frolicking.

In a similar way, Gandalf doesn’t do magic as we humans would do. In the movies, he makes a couple of gestures and sometimes murmurs something but there are no arcane books involved, ingredients, sacrifices (that we can see).

Since Sauron was even more powerful than the elves, it’s reasonable to assume that for him, magic was even more simple and accessible. The wikipedia article explains:

Sauron was prominent among the Maiar who served Aulë the Smith, the great craftsman of the Valar. As a result, Sauron came to possess great knowledge of the physical substances of the world, forging, and all manner of craftsmanship — emerging as «a great craftsman of the household of Aulë». Sauron would always retain the «scientific» knowledge he derived from the great Vala of Craft: «In his beginning he was of the Maiar of Aulë, and he remained mighty in the lore of that people.»

So he was one of the first «people» who ever lived, direct descendants of the creator Eru Ilúvatar. He had a long time to learn (maybe millions of years) and access to means and knowledge that are incomprehensible today.

The One Ring is so powerful because Sauron committed a significant part of his own power into the Ring. Gandalf mentions this twice:

he made that Ring himself, it is his, and he let a great part of his own former power pass into it, so that he could rule all the others. (Fellowship of the Ring)

and, when talking about the destruction of the Ring,

he will lose the best part of the strength that was native to him in his beginning (Return of the King)

The Silmarillion makes it absolutely explicit when describing the creation of the Ring:

much of the strength and will of Sauron passed into that One Ring;

As a philosophical out-of-universe device, Tolkien said it represented the concept that potency has to be externalized and out of one’s direct control to produce results:

If I were to ‘philosophize’ the Ring of Sauron, I should say it was a mythical way of representing the truth that potency (or perhaps rather potentiality) if it is to be exercised, and produce results, has to be externalized and so as it were passes, to a greater or less degree, out of one’s direct control. (Letter 211)

Sauron poured all of his hate, malice, spite, and cruelty into it and his will to dominate all things

TL;DR: The One Ring contains not only a portion of Sauron’s life-force & power, but also the ability to control the other rings of magic given to each race.

There are already a lot of good answers here, but they all refer to the books & expanded lore. Since the original question was about the movie version, I thought I’d write up an answer using only what was there. In the first movie, there are two main scenes that explain the power of the ring.

The first is during Galadriel’s voice-over at the beginning. After describing the creation of the rings and who received them, she states:

GALADRIEL (V.O.) : For within these rings was bound the strength and will to govern each race.

GALADRIEL (V.O.) : But they were all of them deceived.

[FADE UP: An ancient PARCHMENT MAP of MIDDLE EARTH. moving slowly across the MAP as if drawn by an unseen force the CAMERA closes in on a PLACE NAME. MORDOR.]

[TEASING SHOTS: SAURON forging the ONE RING in the CHAMBERS of SAMMATH NAUR.]

GALADRIEL (V.O.) : In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a Master Ring to control all others.

[IMAGE: The ONE RING reflecting FIERY LAVA. FIERY WRITING emerges on the plain BAND OF GOLD.]

GALADRIEL (V.O.) : . and into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.

[IMAGE: THE ONE RING falls through SPACE and into flames. ]

GALADRIEL (V.O.) : One Ring to rule them all.

This tells us that even the basic rings of power have within them the «strength and will to govern each race.» That is apparently an inherent quality in ALL of the rings, not just Sauron’s. The difference is that Sauron’s controls the other rings, not the races. The One Ring itself is a conduit through which Sauron can tap into the other rings.

Next, we have the scene where Gandalf informs Frodo that his ring is the One Ring:

FRODO : But he was destroyed. Sauron was destroyed.

[ANGLE ON: THE RING, Lies between them on the table.]

GANDALF : No, Frodo. The spirit of Sauron has endured. His life force is bound to the ring and the ring survived. Sauron has returned. His Orcs have multiplied. his fortress of Barad- dur is rebuilt in the land of Mordor. Sauron needs Only this ring to cover all the lands in the second darkness. He is seeking it, seeking it, all his thought is bent on it. For the ring yearns, above all else, to return to the hand of its master: they are one, the Ring and the dark lord. Frodo, he must never find out.

So, these two taken as a whole tell us that Sauron not only poured his own qualities into the ring during its construction, but he actually tied it into his OWN power & life-force. Therefore, whatever measure of power & evil we equate with Sauron, we must also equate that with the Ring itself, since it is essentially an extension of Sauron himself. The «how» exactly is never explained in the films, but they definitely explain the question of «why» the ring is considered so powerful and evil.

I like to imagine it like this:

Say what we are is not really all in this world and that what we see is only an impression of what we really are in another realm of existence. It might be possible to exercise/accomplish wonderful or terrible things by pouring more of what you are into this world from the realm in which we are actually from. Sauron does this in the LOTR series, I think.

I actually see it, in both the book and the films, as a ‘horcrux’ sort of thing. All of Sauron’s hate is put into that One Ring rather than six different objects (excluding harry potter) and without it he is weak. I can only explain this theory by using Harry Potter logic and joining them with LOTR, as much as that might upset some people just hear me out. Voldemort seperates his ‘malice’,’hatred’ or whatever you want to call it into these objects; when one is destroyed, his power is weakened. Imagine that he only had ‘one’ horcrux instead of seven. That ‘one’ would have the power of all seven combined, plus his desperate need to keep it safe from all harm. The One Ring is a part of Sauron and because of this, his hatred, malice and cruelty proves so strong that it possesses immense powers. Both films have magic but both explain it in entirely different ways, if not at all. In both however, they seem to present emotions as the strongest of all magic. For example, the stronger your feeling be it, love, happiness or even anger and frustration, the power of the magic is amplified, which brings us back to how strong the ring is and telling us that Sauron’s hate is off the ‘Middle-Earth Chart’, so to speak. In conclusion, the One Ring is more of a Resurrection stone more than anything, for it is as tempting to keep and with it not destroyed Sauron has the ability to use whatever life essence he placed into the ring to come back. (Not to mention the illusions of the dead kings in their true form, before death, when looking at the Nazgul)