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| - Rings of Power (くぐれ！ クラッシュ lit. Pass Through! Crash in Japanese) is the thirtieth level overall and is the fifth level of the secret warp room in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. Twenty-five relics are required to unlock it. In this level, Crash must fly through a series of rings. If the player spins while traveling through the rings they will get a large speed boost and the plane's exhaust will turn purple. There are two gems and a relic to be won in this level. The first gem is won by winning the race and the second is won by breaking all of the crates.
- There have always been rings of power in Esoteria – with a whole fortress and school full of magicians and wizards, many of whom trying to leave a trace of permanency for posterity, how could there not be? Some of them were real Rings of Power, forged by the dwarves, giants and even volcano-dwellers of old, enchanted by the greatest of masters and charged with power by their apprentices.
- The Rings of Power are twenty rings with certain magical properties forged in the Elven smithies of Eregion during the Second Age of Middle-earth. All but three were created at least in part by Sauron, who enhanced their properties for his own purposes. Nine of these rings were given to lords of Men, who eventually became the Nazgûl (Ringwraiths), and seven were given to the Dwarf-lords. The One Ring was created by Sauron alone to dominate and command the other rings. That makes twenty rings. Mary Sues often create a twenty-first ring in order to seem speshul.
- Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie." —J.R.R. Tolkien's epigraph to The Lord of The Rings
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| - Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie." —J.R.R. Tolkien's epigraph to The Lord of The 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. Nineteen of these rings were made by the elven-smiths of Eregion, led by Celebrimbor. These were grouped into three rings for the Elves, seven rings for the Dwarves, and nine rings for men. One additional ring, the One Ring, was forged by Sauron himself at Mount Doom. The nineteen lesser Rings were linked somehow to the power of the One, and were dependent on it. Their wielders could be controlled by the wielder of the One, and if the One was destroyed, their own powers would fade.
- There have always been rings of power in Esoteria – with a whole fortress and school full of magicians and wizards, many of whom trying to leave a trace of permanency for posterity, how could there not be? Some of them were real Rings of Power, forged by the dwarves, giants and even volcano-dwellers of old, enchanted by the greatest of masters and charged with power by their apprentices. The MSM Esoteria also always had had a traditon of academic exchange. When finishing your magic education you would, as a sign of respect, present a paper of your own research to your master, a different one for each master you wished to honour this way. If you did master his teaching well, he’d give you a copy of a part of his own writing. For some, though, who work in the hard work of enchanting objects, loading, yes charging them with some of your own life's energy in the process, it works the same with magic rings. Crafting a ring, they would, if it was a masterpiece, not wear it but present it to one of their masters, while those were expected -but not obliged- to wear them and offer one they wear in return, which sometimes was crafted by a previous student of this master, sometimes handed down to this master by hios own master when he still was a student. Sometimes a venerable master would be honoured by other masters, who would, one after the other, come and present a ring of their own in respect. A gesture like this, which probably could not be answered in kind, would create a great heirloom, an inheritance to be distributed after his death among those of his blood who posess the training necessary to use them. This tradition, of course, explains why some writings and some Rings of Power can appear in places where they are not expected - and why the way of rings and writings can hardly, if ever, be traced over the centuries.
- The Rings of Power are twenty rings with certain magical properties forged in the Elven smithies of Eregion during the Second Age of Middle-earth. All but three were created at least in part by Sauron, who enhanced their properties for his own purposes. Nine of these rings were given to lords of Men, who eventually became the Nazgûl (Ringwraiths), and seven were given to the Dwarf-lords. The One Ring was created by Sauron alone to dominate and command the other rings. However, Sauron never touched the Three Elven-rings forged by Celebrimbor, who was on to Sauron by this time and hid them from him. They were given to the Elves: Narya, which was originally given to Gil-galad, then worn by Círdan until he gave it to Gandalf; Vilya, which stayed with Gil-galad until he gave it to Elrond; and Nenya, which went directly to Galadriel. That makes twenty rings. Mary Sues often create a twenty-first ring in order to seem speshul. Intriguingly enough, Gandalf mentions the creation of several lesser rings by the Elves in The Fellowship of the Ring, but he makes it clear that these lesser rings were made as experiments to practice the art of ring-forging and possessed little power compared to the twenty true Rings; for this reason, Sauron saw little need to corrupt them. (This does not mean that wearing them is a good idea, as they were still too powerful for most wielders to control.) On a similar note, Saruman referred to himself as "Ring-Maker" on one occasion, implying that he wished to create new rings under his control. As this is never mentioned again, it can be assumed that Saruman was unable to create them (luckily for Middle-earth), though from Gandalf's mention of a ring being on Saruman's finger we know he managed at least some progress.
- Rings of Power (くぐれ！ クラッシュ lit. Pass Through! Crash in Japanese) is the thirtieth level overall and is the fifth level of the secret warp room in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. Twenty-five relics are required to unlock it. In this level, Crash must fly through a series of rings. If the player spins while traveling through the rings they will get a large speed boost and the plane's exhaust will turn purple. There are two gems and a relic to be won in this level. The first gem is won by winning the race and the second is won by breaking all of the crates.
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