# Favorite fictional Ring? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509 "2003-06-22T01:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/1 "2003-06-22T01:15:00Z")
Weird poll of the week time…what’s your favorite **Ring** , from a work of fiction? My personal nominees would be \*\*[Sauron’s One Ring\*\*](http://www.badalijewelry.com/theonering.htm), and \*\*[Green Lantern’s Power Ring\*\*](http://toynk.com/catalog/green_lantern_abin_sur_power_battery_replica_1591091.htm). Your own suggestions, however, don’t have to be “superpowered.” They can just as easily be merely decorative, or even just sentimental. As long as they’re fictional. Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![Minor\_Irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Minor\_Irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minor_Irritant)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/2 "2003-06-22T01:57:02Z")
That’d have to be The Ring. _Seven days…_ ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/3 "2003-06-22T04:37:02Z")
Hmmm…The rings for going to Narnia, from “The Sorcerer’s Nephew” seem pretty cool to me. A green one and a yellow one. I had a couple of plastic rings in those colors when I was little. They came in very handy for playing Narnia. ---
**Author:** ![lovelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@lovelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelee)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/4 "2003-06-22T13:21:40Z")
I like “Sning”, the snake-ring from Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality series (the ring is given to a few characters). ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/5 "2003-06-22T13:36:41Z")
Just to be different, I’ll go for Larry Niven’s **Ringworld** ---
**Author:** ![rumraisin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@rumraisin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rumraisin)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/6 "2003-06-22T13:47:52Z")
I like the three rings for the elf kings in LOTR. Three is somehow cooler than one. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/7 "2003-06-22T15:05:10Z")
Claire’s wedding band from Jamie in the _Outlander_ series. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/8 "2003-06-22T15:10:02Z")
The ring that Lily Tomlin wore in _9 to 5_, during her Cinderella fantasy sequence. She opened her enormous, gaudy ring to reveal a secret compartment where she kept poison, which she put in Dabney Colman’s coffee. I didn’t specifically want to poison anyone, but I was jonesed on the idea of a ring with a secret compartment. Ok, so it’s not Tolkien, but it’s still fictional! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/9 "2003-06-22T15:33:29Z")
“In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night, No Evil Shall Escape My Sight…” Go for the green, baby! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/10 "2003-06-22T15:51:52Z")
“The secret compartment of my ring, I fill With an Underdog super-energy pill!” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/11 "2003-06-22T16:01:30Z")
Sorhed’s ring, carried over the Ngaio Marsh to the tarpits of Fordor, by Frito Bugger, and his companion Spam. Frito carried the ring on a necklace made of paper-clips. “This ring, and no other, was made by the Elves Who’d pawn their own mothers to grab it themselves” ---
**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/12 "2003-06-22T17:14:41Z")
The ten rings of the Mandarin, despite never liking the Mandarin as an arch-villain for Iron Man. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/13 "2003-06-22T18:46:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > \*\*Sorhed’s ring, carried over the Ngaio Marsh to the tarpits of Fordor, by Frito Bugger, and his companion Spam. Frito carried the ring on a necklace made of paper-clips. > > “This ring, and no other, was made by the Elves > Who’d pawn their own mothers to grab it themselves” \*\* …as **Qadgop** delves into the mire of the Lampoon Waste, on the south border of Smarnia… Dunno – I rather like the Ring of the Nibelungs, myself – which brings to mind Tolkien’s wry comment on the self-appointed Swedish expert on his works pontificating about it: “If he’d gone on much longer, I was afraid that he’d end up telling us that the Ring was in his own pocket!” ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/14 "2003-06-22T19:41:11Z")
I’m voting for the One ring. Not only is it gorgeous in an understated kind of way, but you can rule all of Middle Earth with it, AND it changes sizes to fit the wearer. What more could be asked for? ---
**Author:** ![lesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/15 "2003-06-22T19:53:30Z")
Barnabus Collin’s ring from Dark Shadows. Jonathon Frid talked about it in an interview once. He said it was a really cheap costume jewelry ring, with fake plastic jade in it. The prop people painted it black. He was always amazed when fans would show him their expensive, custom made onyx rings, because the original was so cheap! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/16 "2003-06-22T20:33:02Z")
Thomas Covenant’s white gold wedding ring occasionally came in handy, when he wasn’t bitching and moaning about his inherent guilt and lack of self-worth. It got him lots of free stuff from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/17 "2003-06-23T01:09:32Z")
I’m gonna go with Buffy’s claddagh ring, which was recently auctioned off on eBay for $15,000. Yeow. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/18 "2003-06-23T01:48:44Z")
What **Polycarp** said. ---
**Author:** ![Trafalgar\_Laura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trafalgar_laura/32/2907_2.png) [@Trafalgar\_Laura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trafalgar_Laura)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/19 "2003-06-23T02:29:06Z")
The Legion of Super Heroes’ Flight ring. Man, it would be fun to fly. ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509/20 "2003-06-23T02:36:15Z")
I’d have to go with Thomas Covenant’s white gold ring or the ring with the big H on it from that stupid Hercules cartoon. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-ring/183509.md?page=2)