The Ring, Found

Good news (I think) from Sweden:

Wedding ring found in lake after 47 years

Published: 27th September 2006 12:21 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=5038

Maj-Britt Oster's wedding ring lay at the bottom of a lake for 47 years - but at last she has it back.

A boy found the ring in Langanas Lake [this is near Mirkwood, I think - NS] in the southern town of Eksjo when he was out diving and sifting through the sludge at the bottom of the lake, Smalands-Tidningen reports.

Maj-Britt lost the ring one summer's day in 1959 while staying at a cottage by Langanas Lake. Her husband Per-Olof was looking after the ring while she went for a swim. But he dropped it from the jetty and the couple's despairing attempts to retrieve the ring from the bottom of the lake ended in disappointment. [The article neglects to mention for some reason that Per-Olof was being pursued by Orcs at the time - NS]

For 47 years the ring went undetected but this summer there was an unusual coincidence. Maj-Britt Oster's son and his wife went to a party at the very same cottage by the lake. [You know, the big party by the Party Tree - NS] Her son told the story of how he had been there as a child and explained how his mother's ring had fallen into the water, never to be seen again.

Shortly after, 15-year-old Thomas Johansson visited the cottage and went out swimming in the lake. He dived below the surface and scrabbled about in the sludge at the bottom. Suddenly he felt something hard in his hand: the ring had re-emerged.

I'd keep an eye on that Thomas.

And, yes, I would throw the ring into some fire.

Just to be sure.