Our Lord of the Rings goodies!

Rings

The work of JRR Tolkien is one of my greatest literary loves. And at the same time, this is another area where I am able to combine two, especially important for me, interests – fantasy and collecting. As in the case of Harry Potter , also in the case of The Lord of the Rings , I once collected some interesting items that I think are worth presenting to a wider group of readers.

For I am the happy owner of original, licensed replicas of the most important rings of power from the immortal work of my father’s fantasy. I am talking here specifically about the famous One, but also about the so-called The three or rings of elves that were the only ones left after the War of the Ring and were taken over the Sea. Unlike the aforementioned Harry’s souvenir, the rings look almost like a perfect copy of what we saw on the screen. Their originality is also evidenced by special certificates, which I keep in my cupboard to this day (I’m not sure why – probably to convince doubters as to their authenticity…). It is also worth mentioning that I got the rings thanks to the noblecollection.com website (if I know correctly, you can still buy them there).

However, before I managed to buy all four rings, in 2018 I bought two fakes at the Pyrkon in Poznań – the Only One and Narya, i.e. the one of the Three, worn by Gandalf himself. While the One, apart from the fact that it is quite flat, still looks somehow (in the photo it appears together with other mementoes of the convention, because I do not have a separate photo of it), the differences are very visible in the case of the Ring of Fire. For comparison, I present a joint photo of both versions – the original one and the one that is much less. – Michał Siciński