One Ring To Rule Them All: The Ring That InspireD J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

About this episode

This episode explores the historical inspiration behind J.R.R. Tolkien's One Ring from The Lord of the Rings.

Welcome to I Can’t Believe That Happened and our first episode on the History of Cursed Jewels. A quick reminder I always throw in one wrong fact.  If you find it send me and email and let me know what the right fact is and what your source is. Let’s start with the Ring of Dwarf Hill that inspired The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien  What if I told you that some of his epic fantasy came from actual history? Let’s talk about: The One ring to rule them all.  The ring that had all of middle earth in a massive power struggle.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topics covered

• cursed jewels
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings
• history

Keywords

• One Ring
• Dwarf Hill
• power struggle
• epic fantasy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Lord of the Rings, I Can’t Believe That Happened, the History of Cursed Jewels, the Ring of Dwarf Hill, The Lord of the Rings

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