The first ring

[bunn]

"Do you remember that first ring? Made for no great reason, but simply to see if it could be done? Simply to find out if the theory could be translated into cold metal and gems. The first time anyone took the power of mind, hand and eye, and caught it in a thing of metal and stone...

It was an arm-ring, that first ring, far too large and heavy to wear on a finger. In the beginning, the only way we could hold the power balanced within the ring was to set it with four gems and inscribe it with the key-spell inside and out. Remember how we had to set the gems apart, in case the wearer should be burned?

A clumsy thing by the standards of later days, but still, something to be proud of; this new made thing of Middle Earth. "




The real version looks better than this. Oh well!

Comments

[huinare.livejournal.com]

That's a cool-looking armband! What is the inscription? My tengwar is pretty much non-existent. I love his eyes and his little smile; he looks rather mesmerized by his own work.

Also, the narrative that goes with it. It reminds me of how computers have gotten smaller and smaller as technology evolves. =D

[bunn.livejournal.com]

My Quenya and tengwar are pretty much non-existent too, but I did *try* to come up with something appropriate - if I have got it right, it says 'I make/am making fire' in Quenya, which seemed like the appropriate language. I know he writes in Sindarin on the Gates of Moria, but that's supposed to be more of a public notice, whereas this is more like his personal notes. :-D

The written notes in his pile of papers on the left don't have full phrases, they are mostly numbers because it is hard to come up with technical notes in quenya from a handful of snatches of verse...

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I didn't see the notes before, neat detail. I like the inscription also, and your rationale for Quenya makes sense.