One Ring dust

One Ring dust is a hypothetical particulate substance which originated in the so-called "destruction" of the One Ring at Mount Doom.

History

The possible existence of One Ring just was first detected and logged by volunteer APTO metrician Karl Jones on the afternoon of Monday, 18 February 2021, in a [ comment on Facebook].

Commentary

Do we *know* that the One Ring was destroyed?

We know that Gollum bites off Frodo's finger, then falls into the fires of Mount Doom. This is shown in the book.

But was the One Ring destroyed? I think we cannot be sure, and should remain afraid. Tolkien may have *told* us that the One Ring was destroyed, but he *presented no evidence of its destruction* that I am aware of.

In my view, thinking through the evidence (and lack of evidence), and after watching various Terry Gilliam films, notably "Time Bandits", the situation is this—

Children should be concerned that the One Ring was not destroyed but *vaporized and distributed* like an evil magic dust, and that the dust is lodged in the brains of grown-ups — probably their parents.

Most kids, I'll bet if they looked under their beds *right now*, they would find dust ... possibly dust from the One Ring.

In the News

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  Gollum at the Movies is a movie review television program starring the malevolent yet pitiable Gollum. Shown here: Gollum review Lucifer's Women (1974).

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  "How Much is that Wedding Ring in Mordor?" is a song by [REDACTED] set to the melody of "How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"

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  The Custodian cleans up the preliminated remains of Steven Brust's proscribed high-energy literature experiment, The Lord of the Rings.

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  Front cover of the first edition of The Lord of the Rings by physicist and raconteur Steven Brust, now preliminated in recognition of Tolkien's mathematically provable authorship state.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Gollum at the Movies
• Metrician

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Ring (nonfiction)