[Uncle Miltie]

[kevkrom]

Perhaps, but “ring” mythology shows up all over northern European written history, which Tolkein clearly studied and attempted to emulate in part. It’s hard to say what, exactly, was the primary inspiration.

[KC_Lion]

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,

ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum ishi krimpatul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46j6-5gSZY0

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"One ring to rule them all.
One ring to find them.
One ring to bring them all,
And in the darkness bind them."

[Snickering Hound]

"Ummm, that's not the precious..."

[Billthedrill]

It does look a bit similar, but I think it’s the fact that it glows in the dark and takes over people’s souls that really inspired Tolkien.

[Kartographer]

I have it on good authority that the ring in question is presently in the possession of the present occupant of the ‘White Hut’.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Did y’all read the story about Senicianus & the tablet? Pretty cool! An ancient Miss Marple mystery unfolds....

[Moltke]

raises the intriguing possibility that the Roman ring in the case, and the ring of power in JRR Tolkien's book The Hobbit, and in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, are one and the same.

A hypothesis easily tested: Put in on and see whther you become invisible and acquire strange powers. How difficult can that be?

[crazydad]

I actually believe Richard Wagners ring cycle was stolen by Tolkien.