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	The Ring Cycle
		The story of Ring would seem at first to be rooted firmly in the 20th century, with its central urban-legend theme of a cursed videotape which kills anyone who see it within 7 days; however, the mysterious main character, Yamamura Sadako, is definitely based on a very traditional Japanese character: the vengeful female ghost.
		Somewhat unsurprisingly, a prequel was made in 2000, Ring 0:Birthday, this time directed by Norio Tsuruta, which provided a fitting and satisfying end to the series, a film which finally explained nearly all of the Sadako mysteries and chose a more dramatic than horrific style.
		The best website on the Net dedicated to the Ring series is J Lopez's fabulous Ringworld, based at http://www.theringworld.com, where you'll find all manner of reviews, plot discussions, timelines, pictures, fan-art, wallpapers, downloads and also the amazing Ring Forum community.
	www.mandiapple.com /snowblood/theringcycle.htm (1053 words)

	Cycle of the Ring
		In Germanic myths, the most important narratives were the legend in the Nibelungen cycle or the Cycle of the Ring, which can be found in Scandinavian (Norse) and German literatures.
		Volund is the divine master-smith, popularly known to English legend as Wayland.
		Sigurd first met Brynhild by riding through a ring of fire, fell in love her, gave the ring of Andvari to Brynhild and pledge to marry the Valkyrie when he return.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/ring.html (3969 words)

	Der Ring des Nibelungen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Der Ring des Nibelungen translated commonly into English as The Ring of the Nibelung or The Nibelung's Ring, is a series of four epic operas.
		Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Plato's The Ring of Gyges.
		Another interesting complete Ring cycle was begun in 2004, performed by the English National Opera at the Coliseum Theatre near London's Trafalgar Square.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Ring_of_the_Nibelung (2959 words)

	Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Ring was written specifically for Wagner's own theatre in (Click link for more info and facts about Bayreuth) Bayreuth, for which a special stage was constructed which allowed the blending of the huge orchestra with the singers' voices, allowing them to sing at a natural volume.
		Wagner created the story of the Ring by fusing elements from many (A person of German nationality) German and (A group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian) Scandinavian myths.
		The complete cycle is performed most years in the (Click link for more info and facts about Bayreuth) Bayreuth Festspielhaus: the first staging of a new production becomes a society event attended by many important and popular people like politicians, actors, musicians and sportsmen.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/der_ring_des_nibelungen.htm (2394 words)

	The ring cycle \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		It is the One Ring; the ring to rule them all, and bring them all and in the darkness bind them all.
		Ring devotees blanched when original backers Miramax almost scuppered the project by insisting that the trilogy be shoehorned into a single two-hour movie.
		The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring is released on December 19.
	film.guardian.co.uk /lordoftherings/storynav/0,11016,614629,00.html (2914 words)

	Animefringe: March 2005 - Features - The Ring Cycle
		Like the somewhat forgotten Rasen, Ring 2 used the original cast and made Mai Takano the heroine of the piece, bolstering the minor role that she had in the original movie and the slightly larger part in Rasen, leaving her to become the next hapless human trying to defeat Sadako's curse.
		Ring 0: Birthday was both a prequel and a sequel that was based on Lemonheart, one of the short stories in Koji Suzuki's Ring-related anthology Birthday.
		Images of 'the ring' and the video itself were cunningly scattered throughout the movie so that by the end, viewers not only sat through Rachael's viewing of the cursed tape, but they were also subjected to it almost subliminally.
	www.animefringe.com /magazine/2005/03/feature/01.php (2274 words)

	the Ring - Sadako, Samara and the cursed videotape
		the Ring - Sadako, Samara and the cursed videotape
		That film was the Ring (aka Ringu), and by 2002 it had been remade in both Korea and the United States, with the film's villainess -- whether known as Yamamura Sadako, Eun-Suh or Samara Morgan -- fascinating and terrifying moviegoers across the globe.
		While I was unfortunately unable to participate in the filming, long-time members of the Ring forum will recognize a certain disco-loving individual who agreed to take my place.
	www.theringworld.com (240 words)

	Review. Antony Ernst on The Ring Cycle
		The impact of Ring Cycle productions on theatrical theory and practice The massive cultural change in Europe and the US after World War II had an impact on what was aesthetically valid in opera productions, while Wagner's 19th Century “progressive” ideology and associated aesthetics are disavowed.
		The mythic component of the Ring Cycle enables Directors to reflect the nature of their times, as mediated through their own values, beliefs and prejudices.
		The Ring Cycle and the world of cinema, to a large extent, exploits the same mythical material of the Hero, the journey, the trial, the solving of the riddle, the restoration of the world to unity and purity.
	www.wagner-nsw.org.au /reviews/004_review07.html (529 words)

	dBmagazine.com.au
		Wagner is still banned in Israel and remains untaught in the country's conservatoires due to the composer's rather vehement anti-Semitism and the fact that he was Hitler's favourite composer (he evidently carried a score of Tristan in his backpack whilst a soldier in World War I.), played at rallies and in concentration camps.
		From what I can gather, Fisch's approach to the cycle is more symphonic than that experienced with Tate and that the string sound (rather than the formidable Wagnerian brass and winds) will be central to his interpretation.
		The Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen) should be a spectacular experience.
	www.dbmagazine.com.au /345/a-arts.shtml (860 words)

	Fairfield County Weekly: The Ring Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's the ring, of course, and his companion, one Smeagol (Andy Serkis), instantly succumbs to its fatal allure.
		This flashback reminds us of the fearful power of the ring, and thrusts us forward to Frodo and Sam as they enter the outskirts of Mordor, led by that same profoundly conflicted Gollum, who has his own agenda in escorting the pair.
		Frodo's mission is to make certain that the ring is melted down in the volcanic fires of Mount Doom before it can be claimed by Sauron, the evil supernatural entity who has amassed fierce armies to conquer Middle Earth.
	www.fairfieldweekly.com /gbase/Film/content.html?oid=oid:47199 (1260 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Film, TV & Theatre > The Ring Cycle
		Ring 2 is great because it raises more questions than it answers, and has some jaw dropping set pieces.
		That said, watching Ring 2 as a stand alone film without any preconceptions might make for a unique take on a movie that seems to be having a hard time fighting for critical headspace with its big sister.
		Ring 1 must be the scariest thing I saw in quite a while.
	www.barbelith.com /topic.php?id=3714 (2081 words)

	Engagement Rings » The Ring Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And so to the tale, which began in Jamaica, where thanks to favourable exchange rates, they both got engagement rings.
		He said he had some engagement rings in Louisiana but had lost them all.".
		Happy, pretty, loved diamond engagement rings make women feel - just as they did 1,000 years ago.
	www.engagement-ring-blog.com /the-ring-cycle (67 words)

	the ringworld - the Ring
		For this second adaptation of the Ring novel, director Nakata and screenwriter Takahashi Hiroshi chose to take a very different approach to the source material, ultimately producing a story that is more human and character-driven.
		This Ring also diverges from the book in its treatment of the Yamamura Sadako / cursed videotape storyline, emphasizing the supernatural and doing away with the heavy scientific slant that stagnated the theatrical version of Rasen.
		The latter half of the Ring has Asakawa and Ryuji discovering that the video was in fact created by Sadako, who three decades ago was thrown into a well and left for dead.
	www.theringworld.com /ring.php (496 words)

	Bulletin - Bard of the Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By this time, Wagner had moved from the anarchism of Bakunin to the pessimism of Schopenhauer, and fully embraced the notion that individual vainglory was the dark reality of the human character.
		, Wagner sent a copy of the Ring to Schopenhauer who, “though he never acknowledged its receipt, is said to have commented: ‘The fellow is a poet and not a musician.’” I take this as a starting point because I have worked my adaptation through the inseparability of poetry, music and staging.
		cycle was intimately connected with the question of the will.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/D8FB4B75F5C7B8B4CA256C6B0013BE35 (971 words)

	A First-Timer's Guide to Wagner's Ring
		Later on, when Wotan has gotten himself into an insoluble dilemma and is despairing, we hear the Valhalla motive turned into a wrenching, minor-keyed cry of pain, with the "Rhinegold" trumpet call thrown in to remind us that the gold was the ultimate source of his problem.
		The Ring -- You would expect the motive that signifies the Ring to be powerful and assertive, but this motive is frail and mournful and a little pathetic.
		Then notice that the Ring motive has the same U-shaped down-then-up structure as the first phrase of the Valhalla motive; it turns out the two motives are essentially the same music, only one solid and assertive and the other weak and furtive.
	www.well.com /user/woodman/singthing/ring/themusic.html (1793 words)

	Juhan Sonin: Porfolio: The Ring Disc Reviews
		The "Ring," with its triangle of gods, heroes, magic and recurring leitmotifs, has always demanded explication; now the most complete, accessible and sophisticated guide to it ever created is about to land in stores, almost in time for the Metropolitan Opera's spring round of "Ring" fever, which begins with "Das Rheingold" on Wednesday evening.
		Because "The Ring Disc" is designed to help the average listener make it alive through the convoluted saga of gods, giants, dwarfs and superheroes, anyone with the right computer equipment can access a wealth of visual information along with the music.
		Nevertheless, a mythology has accreted around The Ring, and this mythology warns everyone but the most hard-bitten Wagnerians that they cannot really appreciate the operas until they have "done their homework," so to speak, and have come to understand the dramatic, textual, and musical interconnections that support and hold the cycle together like scaffolding.
	www.mit.edu /~juhan/ringdisc_reviews.html (6793 words)

	A First-Timer's Guide to Wagner's Ring
		She warns Wotan to flee the ring's curse, foretells that a death-laden day is coming for the gods, and disappears.
		She takes the ring from his finger in preparation to giving it back to the Rhine and thus cleansing the earth of the curse at last.
		Hagen cries, "The ring is mine!" but is dragged to his death by the Rhinemaidens, who reclaim their gold at last.
	www.well.com /user/woodman/singthing/ring/story.html (2584 words)

	THE RING CYCLE - New York Times
		LEAD: The engagement ring I received from my husband almost 14 years ago was bigger than some and smaller than other rings my friends received from their fiances.
		The engagement ring I received from my husband almost 14 years ago was bigger than some and smaller than other rings my friends received from their fiances.
		The ring was not paid for by his family or bought with money borrowed by mortgaging his car.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0DC143DF933A2575AC0A96F948260 (211 words)

	Lord of the Rings an imitation of Wagner's 'Ring Cycle' ? (Philosophistry)
		In this sense the Ring Cycle is an interesting exception to the usually inviolable rule that we don't usually hold art accountable to later misappropriations.
		Both Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings are based on Norse Mythology, particularly "Saga of the Volsungs".
		the plot element involving the all-powerful ring over which gods/men fight comes from the mythology of siegfried fighting and winning the treasure of the niebelungs (dwarf-people, their king is alberich)--the ring is part of this treasure.
	www.philosophistry.com /archives/2004/01/000981.html (1858 words)

	blogjam » Blog Archive » ring cycle pork
		I think that man still has a basic need to hunt, but a 21st Century urban lifestyle doesn’t offer much by way of opportunity to smear oneself in pig’s blood and stalk beasts armed only with a bow and arrow and a copy of Whittingstall’s Meat bible.
		Ring Cycle Pork is a good name, but you might attract perverts with a title like that.
		love that pork, your ring cycle is going to be my lunch on sunday, thank you so very much for such an awsome idea for a sunday lunch.
	www.blogjam.com /2005/05/22/ring-cycle-pork (1146 words)

	Howitworks - RingCycle - Trac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 3rd GB is split into 2 halfs with the upper half being used for ring 1 drivers, and the lower half used for ring 2 drivers.
		The Ring Cycle does not change how drivers that are built into the kernel at compile time work.
		When a module is loaded with insmod, the Ring Cycle kernel allocates space in the appropriate ring (footnote) and loads the module's code and data in that memory.
	www.acm.uiuc.edu /projects/RingCycle/wiki/Howitworks (722 words)

	Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
		In vengeance she plots his death, but in the end she realizes the truth and her all-consuming love compels her to leap into the hero's funeral pyre to become one with him in death.
		She returns her symbol of love, the RING that Siegfried gave her, back into the river Rhine to be reclaimed by the Rhinemaidens, the rightful guardians of the gold from which the RING was forged.
		By her immolation, Brünnhilde redeems the world; and by returning the RING, cleanses it of the curse: the curse of death that Alberich, chief Nibelung - god of the Underworld, renouncer of love, and stealer of the Rhinegold - had wished upon whoever touched his RING of power.
	www.ffaire.com /wagner/ring.html (292 words)

	Egoyan, Girard, Levine and Albery Lead Canada's First Ring Cycle
		The Cycle’s complicated and extraordinary production and musical requirements are huge challenges for most opera companies, but with today’s announcement of the directing and design team, the COC confirms its position as a leading creative force on the international stage.
		The Ring Cycle is the largest production ever undertaken by the COC, entailing a total of four evenings — nearly 16 hours of music, an expanded orchestra and augmented chorus.
		The COC has produced three parts of the Ring Cycle in its history: Die Walküre in 1962 and 1971, Siegfried in 1972, and Götterdämmerung in 1973.
	www.scena.org /columns/reviews/020731-WKC-COCRingteam.html (1032 words)

	The Cat's Pajamas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen consists of the operas Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.
		These pages contain information on the operas that make up then cycle and the cycle as a whole.
		Education site for Arizona Opera provides a nice synopsis of the Ring Cycle and sound clips of the correct pronounciations of terms and charcters associated with the cycle.
	thecatspajamas.net /charlotte/singersguide/ring.html (244 words)

	classical music - andante - canadian opera's ring cycle continues with siegfried
		Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs is the mountain that all opera companies have to climb sooner or later.
		Levine's concepts are highly cerebral, dominated by his vision of the cycle being about the psychology of the characters, rather than concentrating on the bold, mythic action found in the libretti.
		In many ways, the Ring cycle is not all that different from The Lord of the Rings, with elves, trolls, dragons, demons and — of course — a sought-after ring at the center of it all.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25233 (838 words)

	Musical marathon: A ten-minute guide to the ring cycle - Independent Online Edition > Media
		As the Ring sinks beneath the water, the Rhine floods and Valhalla is consumed by flames.
		Even before Wagner had completed the Ring cycle for which he is now famed, he had set his heart on a special festival opera house in which to present it.
		Wagner's use of Teutonic mythology for his operas belongs to the 19th century, when the states that were united by Bismarck into the country that became the modern Germany were forging a common cultural identity and discovering a mythology for their past.
	news.independent.co.uk /media/article348407.ece (2423 words)

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