{"id":70460,"date":"2013-04-03T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70460"},"modified":"2013-04-03T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:50:11","slug":"ancient-gold-ring-which-may-have-inspired-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/04\/03\/70460-ancient-gold-ring-which-may-have-inspired-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient gold ring which may have inspired Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"

T\"The<\/a>here is a buzz in Tolkiendom right now about a gold ring dating from Roman times, which may have given Tolkien a seed of an idea for his own\u00a0‘One Ring’.\u00a0 The ancient ring, found in 1785 in a field which was\u00a0a\u00a0Roman archaeological site in Silchester, Hampshire, UK, was associated with a ‘curse tablet’, cursing the man whom the original owner accused of stealing the gold trinket.\u00a0\u00a0 Archeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, investigating the wording of the curse, consulted with Tolkien about the ring in 1929; and that conversation may have been part of\u00a0Tolkien’s inspiration to create his own magic ring.<\/p>\n

The Roman artifact is now being shown in a new display at National Trust property The Vyne, also in Hampshire.\u00a0 The display includes a first edition of The Hobbit<\/em>, and was arranged with the help of the Tolkien Trust.\u00a0 You can read more about this fascinating item, including an excellent explanation of the associated curse, \u00a0in this article from the Guardian newspaper, here<\/a>.\u00a0 Further articles can be found here <\/a>and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all who wrote in to tell us about this one ring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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