[thechat] Latin

[Martin Burns]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Martin Burns wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Madhu Menon wrote:
>
> >  > The reason I was asking is a friend of mine is getting a piece of
> >  > jewellery engraved for his girlfriend.
> >
> > I suggest going with English. No translation required. ;)
>
> Unless of course you want to go for "One ring to rule them all (etc)" in
> the original, in which case the translation's already available.
>
> ISTR a company who were selling rings with that inscription in the correct
> script around the time of the FOTR release.

aha:
http://www.newmoon.uk.com/jewellery/onering.htm

Cheers
Martin

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