Laurence Gardner

Realm of the Ring Lords

Realm of the Ring Lords - The Ancient Legacy of the Ring and the Grail

This book traces the extraordinary symbolism and influence of the Ring Lords, as well as of the Grail mythology, throughout man's history, from their beginnings 6,000 years ago in ancient Sumer with the Anunnaki, as covered in great detail in the previous book Genesis of the Grail Kings, all the way to modern times and to everything from Dracula to Lorna Doone.

Along the way, the reader meets a vast assortment of vital cultural influences, from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and the Arthurian romances to Robin Hood himself, from the elves, fairies, pixies, leprechauns, sprites, gnomes, and goblins of the world of the Elphame to Spencer's The Faerie Queen, from the Dragon Queens of ancient Mesopotamia to the symbolism of the Tarot. and even from the ring cycle of Norse mythology to the origins of the modern werewolf.

It's a fascinating journey, and the book shows in great detail how all of these cultural icons are based in fact on the Shining Ones -- the Messianic or Grail bloodline of the Anunnaki dating back to ancient Sumer, a bloodline that has been thoroughly explicated in his two previous books, Bloodline of the Holy Grail and Genesis of the Grail Kings.

As Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as Richard Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien, well knew, the quests for the Ring and the Grail are essentially one and the same. And this book brings them together, and in great detail, for the very first time.

Book Reviews - Realm of the Ring Lords

Waterstone's
"This is a truly essential title."
Nexus Magazine
"Gardner has done an admirable job in awakening us to a vast, rich, underground stream of history."
Devon Life
"The book presents a fascinating, and a genuinely thrilling, revisionist approach to established, and all too familiar European folk myth."
The Pagan Press
"This book is a ‘must’. Whatever you do, read it."