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!

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[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

He submitted his notes as "Rings of Power: Design, Construction, Operation, Maintenance and Safe Decommissioning": Vol 2784-89 Proceedings of the Standing Conference of Gemology, Materials Science and Metaphysical Engineering, Eregion. News of its impending publication was actually what prompted Sauron to speed up the creation of the One Ring. The entire print run was sadly lost in the fall of Eregion.


I like your fics very much, by the way. Rosemary Sutcliff was a staple of my childhood, though my images of everyone are based on the BBC TV series of "The Eagle of the Ninth", rather than the film.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Alas for the great lost libraries of Eregion!

I'm glad you enjoyed my fics! I watched the BBCTV series recently and it really is very good and so true to the book.

The movie was fun to watch and it got me re-reading Sutcliff and writing, so I'm very fond of it for that reason, but I don't particularly favour its characterisation even though I'm very pleased it was made.