What the nine rings and the seven rings look like?

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shadowy_blue
The book says that The One Ring is plain and unadorned and it also talks about the Three but what about the Seven and the Nine?

How exactly do you picture them to look like? From what materials were they made? What kind of gems were set on them?


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Exa
I never imagined the Seven and the Nine as they look like in the film - the dwarven ones not that big and simple, the human ones a little less aggressive...

I never really thought about the type of gems, but for the dwarven ones those from the film are ok for me... something like I pictured. And the metal... EW now it would be practical to know what all these materials are called in english big grin but I think gold would be good for them, even if theyre not the One theyre still rings of power, and I simply associate power with gold.

The jewels of the human ones were always rather small in my mind... but the shapes difficult and fragile, a little over-adorned. Not the "beautiful" way like nenya in the film (too glittery!), but rather like perhaps Barahirs Ring.

Kitoky
Dwarven Rings, here are images of duplicates of the actual prop.


http://www.badalijewelry.com/images1/dwarf03016.jpg

http://www.badalijewelry.com/images1/dwarf03006.jpg

http://www.badalijewelry.com/images1/dwarf03014.jpg

http://www.badalijewelry.com/images1/dwarf03008.jpg

http://www.badalijewelry.com/images1/dwarf03013.jpg

http://www.badalijewelry.com/images1/dwarf03004.jpg

shadowy_blue
eek!

Cool gems! Thanks Kit! big grin

The Anglo-Saxon carvings are brilliant too. Though it will be kinda better if it's just really carved without the the red color. big grin

So, the Angerthas says: (from the top right)

ALDREI - BRUT - OKSI - OG - HAMAR

Exa, you know what that means? I can only translate the letters to our own but I don't know what it means. sad big grin

Kaleanae
Those rings are so pretty

Exa
I also thought so first but they arent. Most of the stuff Badalijewelry sells looks like in the movies, but not everything, they also have strange stuff like Nenya for men big grin http://www.noble-collection-shop.de/data_fs/images/NN9635_b.jpg


@shadowy
the text reads "aksi og hamar aldrei brut" which means "Axe and hammer that never breaks" (you can guess most of it lol... old norse)
the other inscriptions
(here:
http://elvish.org/gwaith/movie/dwarf03020.jpg )
say "fulur af gul og dyrgripur | bustadur undir fjalshid", translated as "Halls under the mountains | Filled with gold and treasure"

the whole thing is somewhere translated as
"Axe that never dulls, hammer that never breaks. Halls under the mountains filled with gold and treasure"

shadowy_blue
eek!

Wow, Exa!! You're really good at this. big grin Thanks!! big grin LOL...That's a very good and cool translation. Very Dwarvish. love big grin

Exa
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Lol though the language isnt Dwarvish but Old Norse... where also most of the names Tolkien uses for the dwarves come from.
Practically all are from the Elder Edda, nordish mythology, but were anglized... not norse ones are I think Gamil Zirak (old silver), Telchar and one more I always forget... the dwarven lord in the first age howshecalled something with a and I think g... and z... Azaghal? - well at least its also not norse... not sure about narvi.

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