Is this the annulus that helped inhale J.R.R. Tolkien to indite about the One Ring of Middle Earth ? This popish doughnut , which is tie in with a divine curse , ispart of a raw exposition at the Vynein Hampshire , England , investigate its linkup to Tolkien and its possible influence on his work .
The Guardianspoke to Dave Green , the property manager at the Vyne , about the halo and its connection to Tolkien . The 12 g gold mob was probably in the beginning find in 1785 near Silchester , site of the Iron Age Roman town Calleva Atrebatum , and stand the dedication , in Latin , “ Senicianus inhabit well in God . ”
The mob link up to Tolkien through another archaeological land site , Lydney in Gloucestershire , commonly jazz as “ Dwarf ’s Hill . ” There , a pad tells of the whammy on Senicianus ’ ring . According to the tablet , a man nominate Silvianus tells an obscure immortal prognosticate Nodens that Senicianus steal his halo . The pad of paper lays a curse on any bearing the name Senicianus until the thief hark back the pack to Nodens ’ temple .
In 1929 , Tolkien was a professor of Anglo - Saxon at Oxford , and archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler — who connect the pad with the gang — asked Tolkien to advise him on the name of the god in question . The ring has long yearn in obscurity , but now the Vyne is spotlight it , displaying it alongside memorabilia from the Tolkien Society .
Image from the National Trust .
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