J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Hobbit" inspired a Generation in the 1970's One band was able to capture the magic, they didn't put it in a crystal at the end of a Fierce looking Staff they put it in their

If the ring of power is "Sophistry" the ability to bend the truth, appeal to emotion and be corrupted by power. If the Hobbit was WWI and The Lord of the Rings is WWII, sophistry is the rhetoric