
Thief! It stole our precious, our precious. And so it was that Bilbo found it, during his travels with the Dwarves.

But the Ring slipped of Gollum 's finger, too. Tortured and driven by the Ring, he hiding dark caves under deep mountains. His own people begin to despise the wretched creature and to call him Gollum.

NARRATOR: He used the Ring for thieving, and to find out secrets. SMEAGOL: Because it's my birthday, my love, and I wants it.ĭEAGOL: I have already given you more than I could afford. Two friends were fishing in the Great River one day. Terrible shadows under his great shadow who roamed the world, searching for the One Ring. The Dark Lord captured the nine Rings that were made for MenĪnd turned their owners into the Ringwraiths. And there the Ring lay, at the bottom of the Great River Anduin for thousands of years. But the Ring had a will of its own, and a way of slipping from one hand to be found by another, so that it might at last get back to its master. But because he did not destroy it, the spirit of the Dark Lord lived on and began to take shape and grow again. It was Prince Isildur of the mighty kings from across the sea who took the Ring. As the last alliance of Men and Elves fell beneath his power he did not notice the heroic shadow who slipped in.

With the One Ring, Middle-earth is his and he cannot be overcome. But then, the Dark Lord learned the craft of ring-making and made the Master Ring. The great Elven-smiths forged Rings of Power. Long ago in the early years of the Second Age, Tolkien comprising The Fellowship of the Ring and the first half of The Two Towers. Watch an adaptation animation motion picture made by Fantasy Films and based on The Novels of J.R.R.
