I’ve broken my search for food words just because I thought to myself why on earth didn’t I cover “ring” before with words like chance and fortune?  This one will be worth graphing with Lexos in the near future.

“Ring” the circular metal adornment comes from German roots having to do with roundness.  “Ring” the sonorous verb and accompanying sound word are a completely separate word from German roots with its own lovely history (in some places a weak verb, in others strong – ring, rang, rung).  The Careful Scholar will, of course, separate the jewelry from the sound when analyzing “ring” in the work.

• 01.010 and blew out a beautiful grey ring of smoke
• 01.025 there came a tremendous ring on the front-door bell,
• 01.029 when there came another even louder ring at the bell.
• 01.037 when loud came a ring at the bell again,
• 01.037 and then another ring.
• 01.047 Not a ring,
• 01.123 and never enjoy a brass ring of it.
• 04.013 and blew smoke rings,
• 05.002 what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel.
• 05.002 He put the ring
• 05.062 There he found the ring he had picked up
• 05.084 He had a ring,
• 05.084 a golden ring,
• 05.084 a precious ring.
• 05.086 He wanted it because it was a ring of power,
• 05.086 and if you slipped that ring on your finger,
• 05.087 when such rings were still at large
• 05.105 The ring felt very cold
• 05.119 It seemed that the ring he had
• 05.119 was a magic ring:
• 05.122 and he had lost his ring.
• 05.137 or a last trick of the ring
• 05.138 and there was the ring still,
• 05.149 They could not find Bilbo with the ring on,
• 06.003 now he had the magic ring,
• 06.005 He had still got the ring on,
• 06.013 and slipping off the ring.
• 06.015 and said nothing whatever about the ring;
• 06.019 except about the finding of the ring
• 06.050 Even magic rings are not much use against wolves –
• 06.060 This glade in the ring of trees
• 06.067 and looked down upon the ring of the Wargs,
• 06.069 down, down towards the ring of the wolves
• 06.072 Soon they had a ring of smoke
• 06.072 a ring which they kept from spreading outwards;
• 06.072 Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears
• 07.116 this is a splendid place for smoke rings!’
• 07.116 he was so busy sending smoke rings
• 08.058 and sitting on sawn rings of the felled trees
• 08.059 and scrambled forwards into the ring
• 08.063 Before he had time to slip on his ring,
• 08.080 also Bilbo had slipped on his ring before he started.
• 08.081 and ring or no ring
• 08.081 and ring or no ring
• 08.109 He had taken off his ring when he rescued Fili
• 08.116 except to let the dwarves into the secret of his ring.
• 08.118 He suddenly slipped on his ring,
• 08.119 and burst through the ring.
• 08.124 that they had come to the edge of a ring
• 08.125 and the finding of the ring interested them so much
• 08.125 with the ring
• 08.125 and a magic ring –
• 09.002 who popped on his ring
• 09.011 never daring to take off his ring,
• 09.017 One invisible ring was a very fine thing,
• 09.026 in spite of his ring,
• 09.063 Of course helped by his magic ring he got on very well at first,
• 11.026 Since he has got an invisible ring,
• 12.008 Then the hobbit slipped on his ring,
• 12.040 I have got my ring
• 12.044 and blessed the luck of his ring.
• 12.096 of dwarf-linked rings
• 13.008 Bilbo slipped on his ring
• 13.008 ring or no ring.
• 13.008 ring or no ring.
• 13.035 clad in a coat of gold-plated rings,
• 16.016 Bilbo put on his ring,
• 16.020 and he slipped off his ring,
• 17.049 Actually I may say he put on his ring early
• 17.049 A magic ring of that sort is not a complete protection
• 17.059 and they were forced into a great ring,
• 18.008 Then Bilbo remembered his ring!
• 18.009 hurriedly taking off the ring.
• 18.023 and broke like a clap of thunder through the ring.
• 19.039 His magic ring he kept a great secret,
• 19.041 when there was a ring at the door.

“ring, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2016. Web. 4 July 2016.

“ring, v.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2016. Web. 4 July 2016.