I recieved an email from Weta today with some new products. For anyone with $2,455 USD lying around, you can get a true One Ring to rule them all created by the original artists from the movies. 18k gold, sterling silver chain, and a wooden box.

See for your self:

http://www.wetanz.com/the-one-ring

Too rich for my blood, but another truely ultimate collectible!

I wants it. They stole it from us. They're thieves! Filthy little thieves!

For that price, it better have a chunk of Sauron's soul in it!

A few years ago, a friend gave me a One Ring replica as a gift. It was gold alloyed with, or overlaid on, some other metal, and after a couple of years, it tarnished. So hopefully for anyone who buys one of these e xp ensive ones, 18 carat is pure enough to prevent tarnishing.

[quote=""Olorin""]... A few years ago, a friend gave me a One Ring replica as a gift. It was gold alloyed with, or overlaid on, some other metal, and after a couple of years, it tarnished. So hopefully for anyone who buys one of these e xp ensive ones, 18 carat is pure enough to prevent tarnishing.[/quote]

Speaking off the cuff here, and any forum member metallurgists feel free to correct me (Thrandy?) but I believe that 24kt (pure) of course, but then 18, 14 and 10 kt gold all should be tarnish proof. The lower the number the lesser amount of gold and the more of some other metal, (nickel, I think in 10kt) , but I couldn't tell you the proportions.
But I understood that none of those should tarnish.

What you may have had Olorin, was a sterling silver ring overlaid with 14kt, or maybe 10kt gold, called vermeil. At least that is one type of gold plating.

You see a lot of it now [vermeil] being sold in place of gold jewely, not deceptively, but just for what it is, because with gold so high many people can no longer afford 14kt gold jewelry.

But you are quite right--the piece eventually tarnishes, even if you never wear it, because the plating is so thin, it just wears away with minimal handling. And then it just looks cheap.

[quote=""Rough666""]... you can get a true One Ring to rule them all created by the original artists from the movies. [/quote]

Quite a while back they also accepted commissions for the three elven rings , which they also designed for the movies, ---didn't check to see if that is still true.
But it wouldn't matter as I couldn't afford it then and cannot afford it now.

But I would love to have a Jensen "Vilya".... and happy coincidence, sapphire is my birthstone anyway.

We wants a Vilya. We NEEDS a Vilya! gollum, gollum.

[quote=""Fingolfin""] We wants a Vilya. We NEEDS a Vilya! gollum, gollum.[/quote]

Vilya's been available for a long time through Jens Hansen, like the One Ring

http://www.jenshansen.com/blog/2004/09/ ... movie.html

It's on my must-get list as well (who could say no to the mightiest of the Three?).

And in regards to the gold purity stuff, Deimos is right.

I don't see any info about what level of purity this weta ring is. At that price it must be at least 18k, but $400 more for inscription? Like the $2400 isn't high enough?

I'd say the 18k solid gold ring offered by Noble was a far better deal.
I'm satisfied with my $125 SS gold layered, thanks.

This One Ring isn't so much about getting a good deal as it is about the prestige of having the original makers creating it to order.

You almost can't put a price tag on stuff like that, and Weta knows it.

[quote=""Jamanticus""]This One Ring isn't so much about getting a good deal as it is about the prestige of having the original makers creating it to order.[/quote]

The original maker would be Sauron, not Weta. I think if you could convince him to make you another one of these, he'd be charging more than Weta... a LOT more.

Aw, but Sauron's just a mere spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows now- phoned him yesterday and he said he wouldn't make one more Ring until Morgoth gets back for Dagor Dagorath

I'm surprised he can still afford a phone, what with being a jobless spirit and all. Maybe Dark Lords get a good pension after being forcefully retired?

Didn't you guys hear about the unemployment compensation extension?
Sauron's laying low until it runs out!

[quote=""Valkrist""]I'm surprised he can still afford a phone, what with being a jobless spirit and all. Maybe Dark Lords get a good pension after being forcefully retired? [/quote]

Well, I just read an article on MSN about 3 people who get by on $18K a year or less. They all had housing and food e xp enses, which Sauron wouldn't have. Nor would he have transportation e xp enses. A spirit can go anywhere. So all he really needs is to be able to scrape together a little income and he can have a phone (probably a TracPhone) to communicate with his minions. I wonder if he's on Facebook? Or Twitter?

Sauron Tweets: Gnawing self. I <3 darkness. All shall bow. Word.