The Other Nine Rings?

[Burb]

i hope this is the right forum to post this.......

at the time of the LOTR tale, where are the other 9 rings at?
and also, if the "one ring" is destroyed, do the other 9 have any power?

 

[Mablung]

Ummmmm which 9? There men had 9 so Ill assume your asking us that and those are wielded by the Nazgul. the 7 Dwarven Rings were either captured or destroyed and the 3 Elven Rings were on characters in the books. And this is probably suited better to the book forums than the movie forums.

 

[Brytta]

Burb, you probably remember the scence in FoTR where Frodo throws the ring in the fire and upon removing it, sees characters written on it in an ancient language. It is the language of Mordor.

Gandalf translates the verse into the common tongues as:


One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them
One ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them

Three rings for the eleven king under the sky
Seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone
Nine for mortal men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie

One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them
One ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie

You can listen to Tolkien's own voice reading this famous verse by following this link:

Tolkien reading the verse

The powers of the others rings is diminished or elimated when the One Ring is destroyed, though they still physically exist. This is illustrated by the three ring-bearers of the Elven rings who display there rings when the leave the Grey Havens on the way to the West.

 

[FoolOfATook]

Mablung:
The nine rings are actually held by Sauron, not by the actual Nazgul themselves.

mightiest servants, the Ring-wraiths, who had no will but his own, being each utterly subservient to the ring that had enslaved him, which Sauron held

From UT, "The Hunt For the Ring", emphasis added.

And if the One Ring is destroyed, all the other Rings of Power become completely powerless.

 

[Imrahil]

Originally posted by Mablung
Ummmmm which 9? There men had 9 so Ill assume your asking us that and those are wielded by the Nazgul. the 7 Dwarven Rings were either captured or destroyed and the 3 Elven Rings were on characters in the books...

Hi all. About the elven-rings, refresh my memory if possible.
Who has them? Galadriel & Elrond I think, but who's got the 3rd.....? Is it Celeborn?

 

[Niniel]

No, Gandalf had it. It was given to him by Círdan the Shipwright, the Elf who lives at the Grey Havens. Elrond had received his ring from Gil-Galad.