"30-minute rings: 60 ring projects by 49 top jewelers in 30 minutes flat! While you're creating spectacular rings, you'll also expand your skills, flex your creativity, release your inhibitions, and grow as an artist."--from p. [4] of cover.

In this parody of The Lord of the Rings, it's up to Frito Bugger and his band of misfits to carry the Great Ring to Fordor and cast it into the Zazu Pits.

"Rings are powerfully evocative pieces of jewelry, traditionally worn as symbols of love, loyalty, remembrance or faith. Focusing on the V&A's world-famous collection, Rings tells the story of their evolution from sculptural gem-set bands worn in medieval times to Art Deco masterpieces, dramatic gemstone "rocks" of the 1950s, and innovation works of art created by contemporary jewelers"--Back cover.

Peter Jackson's film version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the accompanying proliferation of Rings-related paraphernalia, has once again brought the work of J.R.R. Tolkien to a popular audience. There are, however, few full and accessible treatments of the religious vision permeating Tolkien's influential works. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with his fresh study, J.R.R. Tolkien's sanctifying Myth: understanding Middle-earth. In it Birzer...

Graphite, on tracing paper. Upper trunk of tree with branches, separated from lower half of trunk, lower trunk sliced open to show rings.

A tale of the enchanted land of Middle-Earth - where a brave band of Hobbits, heroes and wizards set out to protect it. When a dangerous and powerful gold ring falls into his hands, a courageous Hobbit named Frodo, he embarks on an epic journey. Along with the mighty Wizard Gandalf and some daring elves, he defends his homeland from the Dark Power who would destroy it.