The latest hack on MIT's Great Dome was a golden ring to mark tomorrow's opening of the movie "Fellowship of the Ring." The ring bears an inscription (in book author J.R.R. Tolkien's "elvish" language) that translates as "one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on December 19, 2001.