I have always wondered as a reader of LOTR from a logical point of view which was created first, the ring or the verse inscribed on the ring. "It is only two lines of a verse long known in Elven-lore" says Gandalf. So the ring has an inscription on it (put there as a part of the forging process) of the well know verse but surely the rhyme could not have been known before the ring came into existence because the wise only knew of the One when Sauron first put it on, so I can clearly not pick the answer in front of me.
Last session you mentioned a tantalising tit-bit about Celebrimbor hearing Sauron chant this while forging the ring? (at Mt Doom?) I could have heard wrong. Can you please tell us this story in more detail and more importantly, the source.
Last session you mentioned a tantalising tit-bit about Celebrimbor hearing Sauron chant this while forging the ring? (at Mt Doom?) I could have heard wrong. Can you please tell us this story in more detail and more importantly, the source.