On this episode of the Symbolical World Podcast, I'll be playing for you some thoughts that I had on the Lord of the Rings, especially surrounding the Ring of Power itself, its relationship to power, its relationship to technology, and how that can help us to understand our relationship to the things that surround us.

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Tokian's ring in the Lord of the Rings is like an inverted Holy Grail, the object of everyone's desire, though not for the personal challenge it offers,

and for the spiritual enlightenment it procures,

but rather for the raw power which it contains

and which it gives to its wear. In ancient myth and in storytelling, we find other

such rings, the ring of Gaijis in Plato's Republic, whose capacity to render invisible

entices Gaijis to give in to his raw desire for power by using the ring to usurp the king.

In Arthurian legend, Sir Gawain is given an invisibility ring.

And then we also find Sir Percival, who receives a ring that makes him invulnerable.

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