Lord of the Rings fans aid police's quest to find owner of 'precious' jewellery

Police are searching for the rightful owner of the ‘one ring to rule them all’ after finding it in a cache of stolen goods.

They clearly need to brush up on their Middle Earth knowledge, not to mention their Elvish, after appearing unaware of exactly what they had found.

Lord of the Rings fans got very excited at North Yorkshire Police’s appeal on Facebook and were happy to enlighten them on the precious jewellery’s true power.

One wrote: ‘The ring was made in the fires of Mount Doom. Only there can it be unmade.

‘The ring must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came. One of you must do this.’

Police were told how somebody was searching for a ring muttering ‘my precious’.

Another user joked: ‘But something happened then the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable. A Police Officer, from the North of the (York)Shire.’

One fan of JRR Tolkein’s fantasy trilogy congratulated the burglar who had the courage to ‘do over’ the evil lord Sauron’s house.

Police were urged to ‘cast the ring into the fire’ rather than returning it to its ‘rightful owner’, who ‘tried to enslave all of Middle Earth’ the last time he had it.

Officers said the ring, featuring Elvin markings as seen in Peter Jackson’s film adaptations, had been found among property stolen from a house in York last February.

In their appeal they said: ‘Unfortunately we haven’t been able to find the owner of the ring and return it to them.

‘As it is such a distinctive piece of jewellery, we’re hoping that someone will recognise the markings and be able to tell us who it rightfully belongs to.’

After thousands of fans excitedly weighed in, North Yorkshire Police said: ‘Thanks for all the comments – we obviously need to brush up on our movie knowledge!’

Some got a bit peeved at the force for overlooking ‘the most influential literary work of the last century’.

One fan said replica rings have been massed produced and can be bought on Amazon, eBay, etsy and ‘geek shops’ across the world.

She added: ‘I think tracking down who owns ‘the one ring” will prove to be nigh on impossible.

‘But I’d start with that child sized adult not wearing any shoes with a glazed look on their face.’