'The chief power (of all the rings alike) was the prevention or slowing of decay (i.e. Tolkien provides a revealing insight on to the nature of the Rings and their powers in one of his letters: The Rings of Power were primarily made to slow the passage of time and preserve their creations of beauty. Valinor they were only subjects and below the Valar. Sauron, as tempter, awoke aДesire in the hearts of Elves to heal the hurts of the earth and create a paradise on this side of the sea to compare to Valinor - AND to be its rulers whereas in As such, theД®arth changed with the passage of time, and the Elves saw many things that were fair become destroyed and lost by the hurts of evil. The Elves were immortal and were fated to live as long as Middle-earth lasted. The reason is tied to the regret the Elves had for the passage of time. Why were the Rings of Power Made, and what were their Powers?

However, the Three Elven Rings were conceived and made by the Elven-smith, Celebrimbor, alone, and Sauron never touched the Three. Power.' He taught them secret lore, and with this knowledge their craftsmen (a guild called the Gwaith-i-Mirdain, the People of the Jewel-smiths) created the Rings of Power which included the Seven and the Nine.Д«ut Sauron had a part in the creation of these rings and he guided the Elves in their making. Sauron greatly desired to 'persuade the Elves to his service, for he knew that the Firstborn had the greater (Lord of Gifts), but with a dark plan to ensare them. About the year 1200, Sauron came among the Elves in a fair form using the name Annatar Second Age close to the west gate of the dwarven kingdom of Moria. The Elves of Eregion made all the rings, except for the One which Sauron forged by himself in Mount Doom.ДЄfter the defeat of Morgoth in the First Age, some of the remaining Noldorin Elves settled in Eregion and built a city called Ost-in-Edhil around the year 750 in the After all he was a Maia (of Aule, the smith) and possessed great power. Own ring of power and used this ring to control and dominate his army of orcs, wargs, and half-breeds. It is quite possible and plausible that Saruman created his We are told in several places that the study of the lore of the Rings of Power was Saruman's provence. Saruman, the Wise, Saruman the Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours.' 'But I rode up to the foot of Orthanc, and came to the stair of Saruman.He wore a ring on his finger.' In the same section Saruman declares 'For I am It is also possible that Saruman himself created a minor ring as is suggested in the Fellowship of the Ring during the Council of Elrond where Gandalf is recounting his capture in Isengard: Their use is nowhere recorded in the history of Middle-earth. We are not told how many of these lesser rings were made, nor of the nature of their power. 'There Sauron took the Nine Rings and the lesser works of the Mirdain but the Seven and the Three he could not find.' But the Great Rings, the Rings of Power, they were perilous.' ДЄnother allusion to more rings is made when Sauron invaded Eregion to reclaim by force all the rings he had sought to rule by the forging and wearing of the One: The lesser rings were only essays in the craft before it wasДЇull-grown, and to the Elven-smiths they were but trifles - yet to my mind dangerous for mortals. 'In Eregion long ago many Elven-rings were made, magic rings as you call them, and they were, of course, of various kinds: some more potent and some less. Gandalf suggests as much when he explains the history of the Rings of Power to Frodo: It has been said that more rings were made but they are of a lesser nature than the Great Rings of Power. These are the Rings of Power made in the Second Age and concern the events of the Third Age. The verse in the Lord of the Rings makes explicit reference to twenty Rings of Power: nine for Mortal Men, seven for Dwarf Lords, three for Elven Kings, and One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,

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