what actually is the one ring what powers does it have other than turning people invisible and why is it so important hi everyone this is Robert welcome to in deep key this video is brought to you by my wonderful patreon community I am now creating regular junior our token and Lord of the Rings content on this channel that's as well as the usual Game of Thrones Westworld and black mirror videos the One Ring is the main focus of the Lord of the Rings and is set up as being the one artifact whose ownership determines the fate of all middle-earth but despite making people invisible and giving them a kind of view of the astral plane and obviously turning people greedy we never actually see why or how it's so powerful so what is the One Ring and what makes it so important let's start with the history at the end of the first age Morgoth or milk or as he has first known the big baddie in Tolkien's legendarium was defeated he was cast down into the void the victorious faithful were rewarded and all was well with the world but morgoth's most trusted lieutenant Sauron did not heed the call to surrender instead he fled and hid in middle-earth eventually building himself an empire in Mordor keeping his true identity secret and after a long long time he emerged into the world with the masterplan a slow-burning master plan it has to be said but a master plan nonetheless Sauron is patient if nothing else positive he re-entered society in disguise as an ATAR meaning the Lord of gifts an emissary of the Valar and tried to ingratiate himself with the elves who he had a massive grudge against most of the elves we've heard of gil-galad Galadriel and so on also Elrond were suspicious and so sarin an ATAR went to the elven Smith's of irregular telling them that he had knowledge of how to make magic rings and he did and he shared his knowledge with them for maybe three centuries he worked with them to produce lesser magic rings and they're like gaining their trust we don't know what happened to those rings but they're out there somewhere then Sauron an ATAR worked with the elven Smith's to forge some things and much greater the nine rings and the seven in truth we don't have huge amounts of direct detail about the powers of either of these sets of rings Tolkien didn't write a definitive list of powers for example but we have a lot of history about them and can see their impacts the nine rings that ended up with mortal men gave them great power and wealth people followed these nine men and they each gained a reputation as powerful Kings and sorcerers they didn't age either there was another side to that power of course but we'll get on to that in a moment three of these ring holders were apparently númenóreans so perhaps we'll see them in the TV show but these rings seem to amplify magical abilities make people charismatic so others will follow them basically it was all about power and control the seven rings which went to the Dwarven Lords seem to have had similar powers in that they led to their bearers becoming hugely wealthy however the dwarves were already quite long-lived and their newfound wealth simply attracted dragons
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