The One Ring was forged by the Dark Lord Sauron during the Second Age to gain dominion over the free peoples of Middle-earth. In disguise as Annatar, or Lord of Gifts, he aided the Elven smiths of Eregion and their leader Celebrimbor in the making of the Rings of Power.
The Monopoly game's origin in 1935, started out when Charles Darrow drew a game board on a round piece of oilcloth that he had in his closet. His friends and family enjoyed the game, so he began to sell copies of the game for $4.00 each - an expensive cost for those days.
By Jodi Beggs. Anyone who's ever player the popular board game Monopoly has a pretty good idea of what a monopoly is. In the board game, one of the goals is to own all of the properties of a particular color, or, in economic terms, to have a monopoly on properties of a particular color. It's also the case that, when a player has a monopoly on a set of properties, the rents on those properties go up.