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Shall I explain the meaning of the One Ring? -- In the case of elven rings they are too preserved with ascetism, the decadance and ressentiment one would associate with a herd morality. The elf, seeing himself as "too good" for this world, finds a pretext to escape it -- his elbereth gilthoniel. In the case of dwarven rings, the greed for gold is intensified -- but what greed that is called, so scornfully, "love of Eru!" What dwarf knows of love? -- "Nothing bought more dearly than love," instinctively the dwarf turns his hatred of the world into an ill-begotten obsession with its creator -- and his own pockets!
For it should be noted: the one ring is a celebration of life, a "velvet condom"(1) around the finger of the philosopher! To become invisible to the world -- that is precisely how one should see the world. Quidquid luce fuit, tenebris agit. The One ring, so simple, so unadorned! -- free of the decadance seen in the rings of Wagner,(3) -- it is the simplicity, the force of the Mordorian spirit that leads it to triumph over the life-debasing instincts of Numenorean thought, which holds to itself during its decline and fall.
To be Numenorean, to think in a Numenorean way, requires a complexity of thought, but a belief that complexity is wrong; a belief in preservation, in valuation of "thing in itself," which poisons our Mordorian culture. To tell the truth and be good with arrows(3) -- this is the folly of Numenorean thinking, for what truth is contained in words? Truth is in arrows.
(1) A notoriously untranslatable pun, der velvetkondom means "one who protects himself, but in a manner that exposes himself to dangers."
(2) cf. Nietzsche Contra Wagner.
(3) cf. Also Spracht Ar-Pharazon.