What Happened to the Seven and the Nine Rings?

Everyone knows the One Ring. But nineteen others were forged and their stories are darker, stranger, and more tragic than most fans ever learn.

To understand what happened to the other rings, you have to understand what they were for because they were never meant to be gifts.

In the Second Age of Middle-earth, Sauron came to the Elvish smiths of Eregion in disguise. He called himself Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, and he was beautiful and persuasive and full of knowledge. He taught the smiths led b…