The Rings of Power (also known as the Great Rings) are fictional magical artefacts appearing in Tolkien's legendarium. Primarily featured in his epic high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (1954), these magic rings are depicted as the titular objects essential in the Dark Lord Sauron's conquest to rule over Middle-earth as the namesake "Lord of the Rings". Consisting of twenty bands in total, all but one were created by the Noldorin Elven-smiths of Eregion, led by their ruler Celebrimbor under the deception of Sauron, who came in disguise as a fair-looking emissary named Annatar.