Ring Powerful
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Is the One Ring, the Ring of Power, symbolic of anything in church history?
While Tolkien claimed he was not writing allegorically, is there any signficance to a ring being powerful enough to consume anyone who carries it?
Not really. He borrowed the idea of a magic "ring of power" from German and Scandinavian myths and folk tales, particularly the Nibelungenlied. In Richard Wagner's operatic adaptation of the Nibelung story, the dwarf Alberich renounces love, which allows him to acquire the power to rule the world by means of forging a magical ring. In the last scene of _Das Rheingold_, the ring of power is taken from him, so he places a curse on it: “Whosoever holds the ring, by the ring they shall be enslaved.” In spite of the curse, everyone from the gods down wants the ring, and the struggle for its possession makes up the plot of the other three operas in Wagner's "Ring" series. The Valkyrie Brünnhilde finally destroys the ring by returning it to its place of origin, the Rhine. Sound familiar?
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