Others Names : the Ruling Ring,Isildur's Bane,Precious and the Ring.
Forged : 1600 Second Age by Sauron.
Destroyed : March 25,3019 Third Age by Frodo,Sam and indirectly Gollum.
Played by : Alan Howard (voice).
The greatest of the Rings of Power,forged secretly by Sauron in the fires of Orodruin.The Ring not only transported the wearer into the Wraith-world,making him invisible to those in the real world but also granted virtual immortality and mastery over the nineteen Great Rings and all other magical Rings forged in Eregion in the middle of the Second Age.After Sauron's defeat at the end of that Age,the Ring came into the possession of Isildur.After Isildur was slain by Orcs after the Ring betrayed him,it was lost.It was found by D�agol in around the year 2463 Third Age.D�agol was murdered by his friend Sm�agol,who took the Ring and through it's influence became Gollum,he bore it in the Dark for nearly 500 years.Bilbo Baggins discovered the Ring 'by accident' while imprisoned beneath the Misty Mountains in 2941 Third Age and claimed it from Gollum by defeating him in a Riddle-game.He carried it eastward to Erebor and then back westward to the Shire,where he kept it.He bore the Ring for almost exactly sixty years.Frodo was given the Ring by Bilbo on the advice of Gandalf.He was the Ring-bearer,who carried the One Ring from the Shire to Orodruin,to the very brink of the Cracks of Doom.Once there,the Ring's power overmastered him and he named it to himself, but Gollum bit it from his finger and fell into the Fire.Frodo bore the Ring for seventeen years until its destruction.
It was held by Samwise Gamgee for a few days in March 3019 Third Age when Frodo was in the clutches of Orcs in the Tower of Cirith Ungol.
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