A ring is a piece of jewelry worn for aesthetic or symbolic purposes.
A ring is a small ring that is worn, for aesthetic or symbolic purposes, on a finger of the hand. Among the rings - a term from the Latin anĕllus - that are used to reflect a state or condition, there are the wedding (or wedding ) ring and the engagement ring .
In the case of the engagement ring, Western tradition assumes that the man gives it to the woman when he asks her to marry him . This ring, in most countries, should be worn on the ring finger of the left hand.
The wedding ring, bridal ring or alliance symbolizes the bond that husband and wife contract in marriage. It is, precisely, a symbol : if the couple decides not to exchange rings or wear them, the ceremony does not lose value.
Regardless of whether it is for an engagement or a marriage , a ring is a piece of jewelry that many people wear on one of the fingers of their hand simply for aesthetic reasons. It can be made with various materials, including gold, silver, diamond , sapphire...
"The Lord of the Rings"
In this sense, we cannot ignore the prominence that this aforementioned ring has acquired in the field of Literature and later in the cinematographic field. We are referring to the saga made by the writer JRR Tolkien entitled " The Lord of the Rings" .
With great success, that set of novels has been brought to the big screen whose plot revolves around a ring that offers maximum power to its wearer and that is also capable of corrupting any person since the greed to possess it makes an individual, Whoever it is, they may see their personality transformed and their values destroyed in order to achieve it.
Middle-earth is the setting where the story created by Tolkien takes place, and made into a film by Peter Jackson , and a large number of unique beings such as hobbits, dwarves or elves, for example, live in that place. Among the protagonists of the story are Frodo , Aragorn , Gandalf , Legolas and Gollum .
"The Fellowship of the Ring", « The two towers»y « The return of the king»son las tres partes en las que fue dividida esta narración literaria que fue escrita en la primera mitad del siglo XX y que ha conseguido convertirse en una de las obras más populares de la historia.
The wedding ring is known as an alliance.
Other uses of the term
A planetary ring , in another sense, is a cluster of dust and other particles that orbits a planet . The most popular planetary rings are those of Saturn , first observed in 1610 by Galileo Galilei .
In mathematics , a ring belongs to the scope of algebra and is a structure that is composed of a set and two operations, related to each other through the distributive property.
A ring , on the other hand, is a piece of metal that is applied to a bird 's leg to analyze its migratory movements.
Finally, it should be noted that the rings are also metal hoops that are used to perform various physical exercises typical of gymnastics .