Gollum then revealed that he had been to Mordor, and that Sauron now knew virtually everything that Gandalf knew about the Ring's location. Gandalf then hastened to the Shire and confirmed his suspicions; the Ring was indeed the One. Knowing that Sauron would use every means at his disposal to get it back, Gandalf instructed Frodo to flee to Rivendell with it, as it was the closest safe haven.
Gandalf had intended to accompany them, but was lured to Isengard and imprisoned by Saruman, who wanted the location of the Ring so that he could take it for himself. Before he had departed however, he had given a letter to Mr. Butterbur , the innkeeper of the Prancing Pony in Bree with instructions that it was to be delivered to Frodo immediately.
The letter contained a warning to Frodo that he needed to leave the Shire at once, and had also contained a bit of information about Aragorn, whom Gandalf had instructed to watch for the hobbits and aid them if he could. However, the letter was never delivered, and as such, Frodo delayed his departure in the hopes that Gandalf was simply late.
Eventually however, Frodo decided that he could no longer wait, and with his companions, Samwise Gamgee , Peregrin Took , and Meriadoc Brandybuck set out without him for Rivendell. The Hobbits' delay, however, had allowed Sauron's servants, a number of strange black-clad horsemen , to journey to the Shire and begin searching for the Ring.
The hobbits had a few close encounters with these black riders, but managed to stay out of their grasp. Within a few days, they reached the village of Bree and encountered Aragorn, who revealed to them that he knew of their quest and was a friend of Gandalf's.
He offered to guide them to Rivendell, but the hobbits were wary of his intentions. Fortunately however, Butterbur revealed Gandalf's letter to the hobbit party and they accepted his offer. By then, Gandalf had managed to escape from Isengard, and had begun desperately seeking for Frodo. He quickly reached the Shire, and discovered to his dismay that Frodo had only left a few days before. Having intended for Frodo to have left weeks prior, he realized that Butterbur had almost certainly not delivered his letter.
Furious, he arrived at Bree a mere day after the hobbits had left it, and learned from Butterbur that Aragorn had found them and was guiding them to Rivendell. Greatly comforted by this knowledge, Gandalf set out for Rivendell the next morning. With virtually no hope of finding Aragorn and the hobbits in the wilderness, Gandalf set out for Weathertop , hoping that Aragorn would make for it as well. In fleeing, he managed to draw four of the Nine into pursuing him, hoping that it would give the hobbits a greater chance of reaching Rivendell.
At Rivendell, a Council overseen by Elrond convened, which incidentally included members of every free race in Middle-earth, to decide what to do with the Ring. It was eventually decided that the Ring needed to be taken to Mordor and cast into Mount Doom, where it could be destroyed. Frodo volunteered to carry the Ring there, and a company of eight companions were chosen to accompany him. The Fellowship of the Ring , as the group came to be known, began the long trek to Mordor.
They continued on from Nen Hithoel to Mordor alone, without any clear sense of how to get there. Frodo and Sam soon became lost in the Emyn Muil , where they encountered Gollum, who had been shadowing them ever since Moria. Frodo and Sam managed to capture him, and after swearing an oath to serve the Ring's owner in the immediate case Frodo , Gollum was ordered to lead them to Mordor, as he had been there before and knew the way.
However Gollum, learning only upon their arrival of Frodo's intent to actually enter Mordor, revealed that there was another way in; the pass of Cirith Ungol. On their way to the pass, the hobbits encountered Faramir and a group of Ithilien Rangers. Learning of their goal, Faramir aided them, providing supplies of food and water, instead of taking the Ring as his father would have wished.
Reaching Minas Morgul , the hobbits began their climb up the winding Stairs of Cirith Ungol to a long tunnel. Here, Gollum betrayed them, for inside the tunnel dwelt the monstrous spider Shelob , who sought to consume the two hobbits. Sam and Frodo nearly escaped, but Frodo was stung by Shelob and captured by her. Sam managed to drive the gigantic spider off, but believing that Frodo was dead, he took the Ring and resolved to finish the quest himself.
However, Frodo had simply been paralyzed by Shelob's venom, making him appear dead. He was captured by a group of Orcs while he was unable to move but Sam, who had overheard the Orcs discussing Frodo's condition, followed them to the Tower of Cirith Ungol. Shortly thereafter, Sam rescued Frodo in the aftermath of a mutinous battle among the Orcs who had captured him, which had resulted in nearly the tower's entire garrison killing each other. Returning the Ring to Frodo, the two began the arduous trek towards Mount Doom.
After a few days, Frodo and Sam reached the volcano, using Sauron's Road to climb it, but were ambushed by Gollum. Fending him off, Frodo continued to the Crack of Doom. But throughout his quest, the Ring had continued to tighten its hold on Frodo's mind, growing more and more powerful the closer it came to the place of its making.
Entering and coming to the Crack of Doom, Frodo claimed the Ring for his own and put it on. As fortune would have it however, Gollum, who had been spared moments before by Sam, attacked Frodo and bit the Ring and most of the finger it had been on off of Frodo's hand.
Then, dancing with joy over retrieving the Ring, Gollum took one misstep and toppled over the side of a cliff into the Crack of Doom it is said that this was one of Eru's few interventions on the events of Middle-earth [ citation needed ]. There, the Ring was swiftly unmade, undoing Sauron's power and finally vanquishing him.
When a typical person puts on the ring, he would be partly "shifted" out of the physical realm into the unseen realm, walking its threshold. A side effect but usually the first effect noticed of this was that it made the wearer invisible to physical beings like living men , but highly visible to other unseen beings such as the Ringwraiths.
For mortals, the ring had several side-effects, most of them negative. Perhaps the first was that the bearer soon developed a strong attachment to it, becoming increasingly reluctant to relinquish it. Like the other Great Rings of Power, it would extend the lifespan of a mortal bearer indefinitely, but as Gandalf explained the bearer would not in fact "grow" further than they would otherwise, but instead merely continue, each new minute an accruing weariness.
Gandalf also held that if the Ring was worn too frequently, the wearer would become wraith-like over time and become entirely subsumed into the spirit world. The rate at which this occurred depended largely on the wearer's inner nature. Both Gandalf and Isildur make reference to this.
The letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. It is fashioned in an elven-script of Eregion, for they have no letters in Mordor for such subtle work; but the language is unknown to me. Morgoth, and to an extent, Sauron were highly motivated out of hatred for and jealousy towards Illuvatar.
The Elves were long the favorite creation of Illuvatar, as seen throughout the Silmarillion, and the Unfinished Tales. In fact, that is why Morgoth made Feanor his primary target. As a great elf, his fall would be all the more palpable. As far as I have seen, Black Speech had no written form.
It is my opinion then, as there is no canon on the topic that Sauron chose Tengwar a creation of Feanor to enscribe the ring with deliberately. The Ring would be the fall of all elves, or so Sauron thought.
They weren't bound by it because the Three were not forged by Sauron, like the Seven and Nine were. Sauron intended to undo the elves using a creation of Feanor, hearkening back to Morgoth's pursuit of the Silmarils. That's just my opinion, but it is held by many who study the work. The script was invented by Sauron himself The script is called Annatar Italic. The language is Morbeth, but the alphabet is Elvish. Sign up to join this community. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file.
The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. File information. Structured data. Captions English Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents. Summary [ edit ] Description One Ring inscription. History Talk 4. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Description Normally, the One Ring appeared perfectly plain and featureless, but when heated in a fire the inscription appeared in fiery letters inside and outside the Ring.
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