FROM THE “CAN’T WIN ‘EM ALL” DEPARTMENT….Is art a reflection of life, or is it the other way around?

One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor
where the Shadows lie.

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