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Ðe Us Ðas Beagas Geaf (He Who Gave Us These Rings): Sauron And The Perversion Of Anglo-Saxon Ethos, Leslie Stratyner

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Notes that a central concept of Anglo-Saxon culture is the lord as ring-giver. Sauron, as Lord of the Rings, is a perversion of this concept. Other elements of Lord of the Rings reflect the Anglo-Saxon ethos as well