JRR Tolkien's 20 rings of power feature in nowadays's advent calendar extract,from Rogerson's Book of NumbersJRR Tolkien's works are deeply embedded within a lifetime of mythological and philological scholarship that merges strains of Celtic, Norse, or Zoroastrian,Chinese and Byzantine storylines with his own imagination. At the heart of his Lord of the Rings trilogy is the dark lord Sauron, who has made 20 rings of power: three for the elves; seven for the dwarves; nine for the kings of men; and one, or forged in Mount Doom,which will allow him to control all the 19 ring wearers as explained by the secret rune verse, "One ring to rule them all, and one ring to find them,one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com