Posted: February 17, 2000 at 02:26:40: by Michael Martinez
: Hmm. I thought the same and posted this at the Ringbearer MB,
: but I had to stand corrected because someone prove that the
: Seven and the Nine indeed was made for the dwarwes and Men
: respectively and distributed by Annatar to these peoples BEFORE
: Ost-In-Edhil was sacked and Celebrimbor killed. It was only the
: Three that was pure Elven rings.Sorry, but whoever "proved" the Seven and the Nine were made for Dwarves and Men was just plain wrong. Tolkien wrote out the history of the Rings in too many places too consistently for that information to have come from any real research into the subject. ALL the Rings of Power were made by the Gwaith-i-Mirdan for the Elves and the Elves alone. They never intended for Dwarves or Men to possess them. Celebrimbor is stated only to have made the Three by himself. We don't know who actually made the Seven and the Nine, although Sauron "had a hand in their making". Berembrog's history as derived from these archives is essentially correct. Tolkien provided information on the history of the Rings in one of the essays detailing the history of Galadriel and Celeborn (which was published in UNFINISHED TALES), in several letters (published in THE LETTERS OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN), in "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age" published in THE SILMARILLION, and in the appendices to THE LORD OF THE RINGS (and some material which was excised from the appendices to save space -- such as the story of Ar-Pharazon and Sauron -- was published in THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH). In all of these sources Tolkien states the Elves made the Rings for themselves. In none of them does Tolkien state that any of Rings were made for Dwarves or Men.
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