Tolkien wrote The Hobbit before he even conceptualized the Lord of the Rings, so upon its initial creation, the One Ring was just another run-of-the mill magical ring. That said, during The Hobbit, before the Ring even came to be known as the One Ring, its only real power was that it could turn its wearer invisible. At Rivendell, Gandalf tells Frodo that some beings can live in both worlds at the same time. In the films, when Frodo is slipping into the wraith-world and he first sees Arwen, it’s assumed that he is seeing her Unseen form, as her form appears different to Aragorn and the others who are occupying the Seen World. This was a realm that existed parallel to the Seen World and was occupied by objects and beings with strong ties to certain magic, like the Ringwraiths. The One Ring doesn’t really turn the beings who wear it invisible – it transports them to the wraith-world, also known as the Unseen World. 15 Gandalf Never Realized That Bilbo Had It H ere are the 15 Things You Didn’t Know About The Lord Of The Ring's One Ring. Tolkien’s various works and Peter Jackson’s adaptations of his novels. Much has been written about the Ring’s symbolism – does it represent greed? The evils of industrialism? The Atom bomb? We’ll leave the literary analysis to the scholars and instead focus on some of the interesting facts about the Ring that we’ve learned through J. Interestingly enough, although Sauron possessed the Ring for nearly 2,000 years, the Ring spent most of its time- over 2,000 years- on its own, lost until it was picked up by Déagol, who swiftly lost the Ring and his life to Sméagol. Its life spanned over 4,000 years, and during that time it came into the possession of several Ringbearers, in addition to its maker, Sauron. The One Ring to rule them all has a long history. As Boromir tells Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring: “ is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?”

For such an unremarkable looking thing, the One Ring has caused a lot of suffering across Middle-Earth and throughout The Lord of the Ringsseries, ruining and ending the lives of countless people.

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