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The Ring-inscription is a Black Speech inscription in the Tengwar upon the One Ring, symbolising the Ring's power to control the other Rings of Power.

Normally the One Ring appears perfectly plain and featureless, but when heated in a fire the inscription appears in fiery letters inside and outside the Ring. A drawing of the Inscription appears in Book I, Chapter 2 of The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Shadow of the Past". A transliteration appears in Book II, Chapter 2, "The Council of Elrond", where the inscription is read by Gandalf.

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

These words, in the Black Speech of Mordor, are physically painful to all the free people of middle earth,

except hobbits, which are especially resistant to evil. At the Council of Elrond, most probably because of the power and the shadow they bring (the Shadow being the more harmful to the elves), elrond is seen looking very annoyed. The inscription uses the Feanorian Characters (Tengwar) because all forms of writing Tolkien describes at that time were invented by the Elves.

Roughly translated, they mean:

One Ring to rule them all, One ring to find them; One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

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