Sauron, however, planned to use the Rings to dominate the remaining Elves of Middle-earth.

Many other lesser rings were made, described in The Silmarillion and by Gandalf, though they were generally considered as having been mere essays in the craft: practice, as it were, for the smiths. The greatest three Rings Celebrimbor crafted alone. A total of nineteen Rings of Power were forged by the Elves, sixteen of which Sauron had a direct hand in creating. The impetus for their creation came from Sauron, who could at that time still assume an appearance fair enough to deceive at least some of the Elves. The Rings of Power were the masterwork of the smiths of Eregion headed by Celebrimbor, grandson of Fëanor. Their wearers could be controlled by the wearer of the One, and if the One was destroyed, their own powers would fade with the power of the Rings under the One. The nineteen lesser Rings were linked somehow to the power of the One, and were dependent on it. An additional ring, the One Ring, was forged by Sauron himself at Mount Doom. Nineteen were made: three rings for the Elves, seven rings for the Dwarves, and nine rings for Men. Disguised as the benevolent entity Annatar, Sauron taught the Elf-smiths of Eregion, led by Celebrimbor, how to craft these rings. The Rings of Power were twenty magical rings forged in the Second Age, intended by Sauron to seduce the rulers of Middle-earth to evil. Tolkien's epigraph to The Lord of the Rings In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.' - J.R.R. One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

' Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, For the series, see The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. This article is about the rings themselves.

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