Lord of the Rings Rings: Every Ring and the Replicas You Can Buy

Tolkien gave Middle-earth twenty Rings of Power: three for the Elves, seven for the Dwarves, nine for mortal Men and the One Ring that Sauron made to rule them all. Add the Ring of Barahir, the old Elven ring that Aragorn gives to Arwen, and you have the rings people usually mean when they say "the Lord of the Rings ring".

Only some of them can be bought as licensed replicas. The One Ring has the most choice by far, from tungsten bands to solid gold made by the workshop that created the film prop. Nenya, Vilya, Narya, the Ring of Barahir and versions of the Nine and the Seven are made under licence too, mostly by smaller jewellers. This page sorts out which ring is which, who makes the replicas and where to read more.

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If you only want one thing, it is probably the One Ring. Our One Ring guide covers the prop, the inscription and the replica range, and One Ring replicas compared puts every licensed version side by side on material, price and sizing.

Not sure whether a ring is genuine? Read is this the real One Ring? before you buy anything from a marketplace listing.

The rings and their replicas

The table below lists the main rings, who wears them and whether a licensed replica exists. Price ranges come from the retailers' own websites; the lowest figure is the cheapest version we found of any replica of that ring. Each ring has its own page with the story behind it and every licensed version we found, and the last row covers how Amazon's The Rings of Power series tells the story.

One thing to keep in mind: two different licences are in play. The film version of the One Ring is made by Jens Hansen for Wētā Workshop, under Wētā's licence from Warner Bros. Badali Jewelry works under a licence from Middle-earth Enterprises and designs its own rings from Tolkien's descriptions. Both are legitimate. They answer different questions: what did the prop look like, and what does the book describe?