Elvish is a fictitious, yet fully realized language created by J.R.R. Tolkein. There are two spoken variations known as Quenya (an older, archaic form) and Sindarin (regularly spoken in Middle Earth at the time of the Lord of the Rings). The Writing shown here is that from the engravings on the One Ring. It reads: "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them. One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them"