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| - The Ring-inscription is a Black Speech inscription in the Tengwar upon the One Ring, symbolising the Ring's power to control the other Rings of Power. Normally the One Ring appears perfectly plain and featureless, but when heated in a fire the inscription appears in fiery letters inside and outside the Ring. A drawing of the Inscription appears in Book I, Chapter 2 of The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Shadow of the Past". A transliteration appears in Book II, Chapter 2, "The Council of Elrond", where the inscription is read by Gandalf (listen to the inscription): Roughly translated, they mean:
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| - The Ring-inscription is a Black Speech inscription in the Tengwar upon the One Ring, symbolising the Ring's power to control the other Rings of Power. Normally the One Ring appears perfectly plain and featureless, but when heated in a fire the inscription appears in fiery letters inside and outside the Ring. A drawing of the Inscription appears in Book I, Chapter 2 of The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Shadow of the Past". A transliteration appears in Book II, Chapter 2, "The Council of Elrond", where the inscription is read by Gandalf (listen to the inscription): Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. File:One Ring inscription.svg These words, in the Black Speech of Mordor, are physically painful to all the free people of middle earth, except hobbits, which are especially resistant to evil. At the Council of Elrond, most probably because of the power and the shadow they bring (the Shadow being the more harmful to the elves), elrond is seen looking very annoyed. The inscription uses the Fëanorian Characters (Tengwar) because all forms of writing Tolkien describes at that time were invented by the Elves. Roughly translated, they mean: One Ring to rule them all, One ring to find them; One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Note: some recent editions of The Fellowship of the Ring accidentally omit the first two clauses of this phrase from Chapter 2. The entire poem reads: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. Gandalf first learned of the Ring-inscription when he read the account that Isildur had written before marching north to his death and the loss of the Ring. When Isildur had cut the ring from Sauron's hand, it was burning hot, and so Isildur was able to transcribe the inscription before it faded. When Gandalf subsequently heated the ring that Bilbo had found and passed on to Frodo the inscription appeared, leaving him in no doubt that it was the One Ring.
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