Hi. After years of reading Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and the rest of Tolkien's works, it occurred to me that everything he wrote about just made too much sense for it to be only a story. I wasn't sure if he knew what he was doing, or if we was subconsciously channeling deeper energies, but it became apparent that he was tapping into a magical system with limitless potential.
It took a long time, but through my own experimentation I confirmed this, and actually began to work out some of it. I fear that the secrets to constructing magical jewels like the Silmarils is lost, maybe forever, but lesser magical items, like the Rings of Power are very doable. In fact, it's mostly laid out in a "children's book".
I've figured out the invisibility, and enduring qualities of the Rings (obviously I don't have access to a dragon to see if it could melt one with its breath, but testing with a sledge hammer seems very promising) but I've been unable to work out other powers like being able to see the other Rings. And it's so ridiculously easy to make a Ring of Power that I'm sure there are others out there.
So I really need to talk with someone who has made their own Ring and see what you did differently.
all rings are rings of power if you enchant, imbue, or enhance them with magick... in lord of the rings all he did was forge the rings from a volcano which has the planet's raw energies...lava is the purests for of fire, the power of destruction and creation...and so if you were to put what he wrote in a book into actual play, it wouldnt be the whole lord of the rings deal bu the ring would be empowered by the volcano and would thus because a ring with fire based energies, which anyone with magickal attunement to fire could use and enhance their magickal prowess.
And you can do the same with all the other elements, I myself so ring and talisman shopping all the time looking for a ring, or neclace, or charm or anything that "calls" to me...once i find it, i buy it, i then take it home and enchant it with either the moon's energies on a night of the full moon, or fire to purify it, or i bury it underground for a month... if you want you can hang it in the middle of your back yard and have it imbued with wind! the possibilies are endless, and you can imbue your rings or talisman with whatever element or which you have/want.
but the invisibilty ring you speak of i have no idea, and for your enduring ring that seems intresting enough...
i myself have a talisman with rock from a volaco attacked and whenever i put it on i can feel the energies of fire.
As for making a ring i have only "made" 1 and it was a natural ring for whenever i tried to do natural magic. Back when i was making a wand, i carved out a ring out of willow and another of oak so that the willow ring would empower my divination and the oak for storing magickal energies from nature and myself.
well to answer wally's question on senseing the energies of other ring bearers and theit thoughts...yes you can sense people whos rings have been imbued with an elemntal (or otherwise) power. Infact anything gives off energies, rocks, people, animals, weeds, trees, anything. (accept plastic, thats not made by earth its made by man)...anyways, your ring is no different...unless you made your ring out of plastic if there is energy inside of the ring then anything can sense it... even a frog would be able to sense it or a rat...but what your asking about sensing it from a distance... that would depend on the ammount of energy stored and how well attuned you are to energies, if you are well attuned to sensing energies you could pick up anything ...and if a ring had so much energy it was going to explode then of course you could sense it from a distance...otherwise you would have to be within a closer proximity to sense the energy in the other persons ring... normally you would feel something... like when i was in the mall and this gothic wearing kid walked by me i immediately sensed something off from the rest of his group...(normally groups of kids have relatively the same energy patterns)...well this kid had something off and it wasnt untill i got about 25 meters from him that i could sense it, and as he got closer it got easier to sense him out... then i noticed the energy was coming from some silver ring he was wearing...i didnt pursue it though...its his problem. But ya you cant read thoughts pr anything like that sorry to dissapoint XD
as for this "imbueing with shadows" i dont know what you mean thats far too vague of a subject. shadows as in darkness, shadows as in fears of others, shadows as in what you see behind me when i look at a light? as in what?
you can manifest anything into a ring or talisman if you can bind it from its spiritual/elemental/semi-physical form into a physical manifestation the most commonly used being rings, talismans, necklaces, braclets, charms, etc. but in reality you can bind anything to anything. But ofcourse this thread is binding to rings so well stick to rings XD
i ment embuing with shadows . in other words what people fear . in the darkness of there hauerts. . with the rings of power brot that thought to me and i wonder how its made so i could make one.
yes you can make a ring to bring out that darkness in ones heart...all you have to do is imbue the ring with (may sound weird) the properties of fear... imbue it with the properties of the demon or diety of fear and specify it to awaken the fera within ones heart...
well the reason you create the ring is to either unleash it upon yourself or you can direct the energy to others. but to create i ring like this woulkd be appauling...to invoke the fears within others hearts unwillingly isnt what magick is for.
