I'm planning to cast a golden ring, an exact copy of Sauron's in THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Millions read Tolkien, and so the conviction lies dormant in all their unconsciouses that a golden ring with a certain Feanorian inscription will give its owner vast and dangerous powers. And since belief creates power, such a ring may really work, now that Tolkien has created psychic and cultural room for it.

It'd be hard to make--the goldwork involved in that inscription would be incredibly fine, almost microscopic, and finding a gold alloy that hard and heat-resistant... not easy.

But possible, now. Because reality is rubbery. We can stretch it. Fiction creates belief, and belief creates... elbow room.

NOTES NEXT MORNING

Tolkien's ring conferred invisibility, persuasiveness, clairvoyance, cunning--the skills I developed to an almost magical degree, to survive a hard childhood. I'm still tempted to further develop my masked side and manipulate others, rather than free my painful, emotional, angry, rather inept abused side.

Fiction creates room for reality? If so, I can look for cleaner magic than Sauron's ring, (though it kept me alive, in a scuttling Gollum sort of way). My quite elvish, otherworldly dreams create elbow room for a magical life here and now--just as Tolkien's work cleared mental room for environmentalism and eco-spiritualism. When Treebeard roared "The tree-killer!" and went after Saruman, a generation of kids saw both trees and their killers differently--and acted on it.

The dream's also a reminder that I do work real magic. I had another psychic dream this week! If I can face dreaming the future, surely I can face the shadow of my past!

My past--that golden, treacherous legacy. My precioussss...

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