The Rings

Middle Earth has several races. Elves, men, and dwarves. Each race was given rings of power to help them govern each race. Three belonged to the Elves, who are immortal, and have a love for all things of beauty. Seven to the dwarves, masters of the mountains, and lovers of gems. And Nine for the race of men, mortal, who have desires for power and control. 

Yet another ring was made. The dark Lord Sauron forged a master ring, in the fires of Mount Doom This ring was made to control all the others, for the writing on the rings say, "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Mordor, where the Shadows lie." (J.R.R.Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 1, Chapter 2, The Shadow of the Past, p 75.) Therefore it has ultimate control over all the races of Middle Earth, and the second worst evil, Sauron, was its master. 

Middle Earth began to fall into darkness. Yet a last alliance of men and elves resisted this darkness. They marched onto the land of Mordor, and there fought the enemy. It was at this battle that Isildur took up the broken sword of his father, Elendil, and cut the fingers of Sauron off, thus getting the one Ring. 


Isildur had this one chance to destroy evil forever. Yet he was weak, and he decided to keep the ring. This lead to his downfall, for much later he and his men were traveling north when they were attacked by orcs. In order to save the heirlooms of Gondor, he put on the Ring and disappeared. He began to swim across the river, but it was then that the Ring slipped off his finger, and the orcs shot him. 

Years went on, and the Ring was forgotten, until it ensnared a new bearer...Gollum!