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Title: Primoris (#1484)
Author: SecretKeeper
Chapters: 1

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Archive: Tolkien
Category: Alternate Universe (AU)
Description: The One Ring was a simple band of gold and yet the destruction it caused was immense. Its owner wielded it for one dark purpose, to create havoc and have power over the land. That faraway tale has gone on for so long that many have forgotten it. However, the end is coming and gold will be in the center of it all.
Published: 02 Jan 2005
Updated: 02 Jan 2005
Warnings:
Type: General
Characters: Gandalf; OFCs


Chapter 1 - Concerning Gold

---Author's Note: This is a prologue if you will of a story that has been nagging my brain. I thank Falling Into Stars for her brilliant post in the Bunny Nursery called "A different world than our own..." who gave me an idea. Mind you, this may take a while to write since I'm doing this as I go along (improvising on general knowledge) and will be an alternate universe fic. I am also in search for a beta-reader so if anyone reads this and has time to look over for grammar/spelling/etc. then feel free to review or PM me about such matters. Thanks for reading and hope everyone had a great holiday. I hope everyone will have a wonderful New Year. Sincerely, Secret Keeper---




-Concerning Gold-\r\n\r\n

Gold is a beautiful metal. It is soft as butter when melted and the power it has over men and women is extreme.

Since the beginning, gold was used by men as money or jewellery. They used the metal to decorate many of their great halls, weapons, or statues so they could prove to the world that they were better than anyone else. By far, it was a metal of rarity and great value. Those who were rich enough or powerful enough could attain as much as they wanted for while others who were poor, dishonest and miserable stole it, the rich horded gold as if it were water.

Gold is a beautiful metal. Perhaps that is why, long ago, past beyond man's reckoning, the metal that shone as brightly as the sun was used for darker purposes.

Long before time began, we were created by the harmonies of those called the Ainur through the shining one, Iluvatar. Humanity was said to have evolved from bacteria in this age of science and reason, but there is a thread of truth about how we were born from legends and tales from long ago that men have forgotten. We did walk upon the lands wholly created and yet we have forgotten as the world changed.

There were many wars in our time upon the earth as men. Many more were fought before us. The first Great War upon Arda, as our world was once called, was against Melkor, one of the most powerful of the Ainur. He wanted to find the Secret Fire, which he thought would give him more power. He went against the Creator, embracing darkness and chaos. He was defeated.

Years after his downfall, Sauron, once a Maiar under the service of Aule one of the Ainur deceived many into believing that he was good. For during Melkor's time, he was an active and faithful servant. He encouraged secretly for men to believe that Melkor was a god, when he obviously was not. After his Dark Master's defeat, Sauron laid quiet for one thousand years until he came back to Middle-earth under the fair visage of Annatar. He befriended the Elvish Smiths of Eregion and under his ruse, he counselled them in magic. He was asked and volunteered to take part in a great task, which would become one of the greatest mistakes that the Eldar made. Rings of magic and beauty would be created, in secret for the great rulers of the lands of Middle Earth, in hopes to unite the people. Sauron learned much from this and in the end; he betrayed them all.

Sauron had betrayed the Elves when he secretly made a ring of his own, a simple band of gold where the brilliance of the metal was tainted. For within that ring he poured his hatred of the past, desires of the future, cruelty for others and the will to govern all life. When he had been friend to the Elves, his dark hand had touched the creation of the seven rings given to the Dwarven Race, created by Aule, and the nine rings given to the race of Men. By touching those rings, he had linked the carriers to the one he made in secret. One by one, each who bore those rings fell to darkness as Sauron perverted each with the power of his 'Master Ring'. The seven Dwarven lords died of their greed. They hunted for treasures and in so doing awakened evils that should not have been disturbed. The nine rings that went to the Kings of men had more power than any of the others. Those who bore those rings had fallen under Sauron's power becoming wraiths, neither living nor dead. They were the most faithful and loyal of Sauron's servants.

Thus, it came to pass that both men and elves fought against Sauron. By then, they found out that he had betrayed them by creating the One Ring, a simple band of gold that negatively influenced the Rings of the Dwarves and the Rings of Men. Celebrimbor, an Elvish Smith, who sensed that there was wrongness in befriending Sauron had created three Rings and hid them away. These Rings were for three of the strongest and wisest of the Elves. In vain, he looked for them desiring to bend the Elves to his will. Soon, there was a great alliance between Men and Elves to defeat him. A great war took place at the edge of Mount Doom, the stronghold of Sauron's power.

When Elendil, the First King of the lands of Arnor and Gondor, fell on the battlegrounds, Isildur, son of Elendil, took his father's sword cutting the Ring from Sauron's hand. Elendil had died bravely and with honour. Not much could be said of Isildur for he took it for his own.

Though Sauron was temporarily crippled by his first defeat, he soon learned to walk and for a long time he waited until he could regain most of his former strength. All he needed was the One to bend all to his will. Deagol, an ancestor to the tiny folk known as Hobbits while he was fishing with his good friend Sméagol, found the One.

The Ring had a will of its own and because of this, tempted both Sméagol and Deagol. Deagol died at the hands Sméagol who ran away to the Misty Mountains where it twisted his mind and extended his life. He became known as the creature Gollum, a mere shadow of whom he once was. Many years he stayed within the cold and dark of the Misty Mountains. His life tumbled out of control as he obsessed over the One and eating what he could. A hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins had unwittingly picked it up within the cave that Gollum spent most of his long and pitiful life. A riddling contest occurred between the two before Bilbo 'won' and ran away from Gollum's cave. He continued to travel with Gandalf, a Maia sent to Middle-earth to aid those against Sauron should he ever rise again, and a band of dwarves to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from a dragon by the name of Smaug. Gollum became depressed and vowed to regain the Ring.

Sauron, stronger than Melkor ever became, was recovering quickly. He bent his will in search of the Ring. As for Bilbo, he had lived many years in peace within his home Bag End. However his heart became unsettled as Sauron grew stronger. He left his home and went off to Rivendell leaving the Ring, quite hesitantly, to his younger cousin Frodo Baggins. Thus comes the end of that tale. Frodo on the other hand found the danger that involved keeping the Ring. Soon, he was thrust into a long quest to destroy the One Ring. He did not travel alone for with him were eight companions, they were known as the Fellowship of the Ring. Their travels was bombarded by various trials such as orcs, many deaths of good friends, temptation, anger and war.

However, after thousands of years, the One Ring was finally destroyed.

Now, one can fully see the darkness that is laced within gold. Darkness had been woven into it since time began. The One Ring was a simple band of gold and yet the destruction it caused was immense. Its owner wielded it for one dark purpose, to create havoc and have power over the land. That faraway tale has gone on for so long that many have forgotten it. However, the end is coming and gold will be in the center of it all.
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