Thread: Why a Ring?
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Old 12-15-2002, 12:17 PM   #23
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Funny this was brought up...
I just finished watching the appendices at the expanded version, and all those ring close-ups gave me enough creeps for Halloween..(it's also like too much camera focus on a knife...makes you think someone's gonna get stabbed).

The hand itself is a symbol control...it's a body part that does most of a person's actions. And having a ring on one the fingers emphasize a power that means "hey, what I do is more important that what you normally do." So when Sauron created the One Ring, he had one purpose in mind: to control Middle Earth. A crown symbolises too little, and a weapon can be upgraded, undermining its own power.

[ December 16, 2002: Message edited by: Neferchoirwen ]
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