The One Ring

Step 1
My 'subject' wears a ring. It is gold in color, and has a dark colored pendant in it about the size of a dime. Engraved in this dark stone pendant is the profile image of a man with an interesting helmet on his head. The ring, although quite beautiful, is also very simple.
Step 2
This ring makes me wonder what it means to the 'subject.' Did this ring belong to a grandparent since past away and is worn in memory of them? Did the subject find this ring and think it was nice and then decided to wear it around? I cannot tell if it is real or just gilded gold, but it looks like it may have been chosen to look big, shiny and flashy, as if to resemble wealth.
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He told me that the ring was given to him by his father after it was purchased at an auction. The ring is important to him because his father gave it to him. He told me that he wears it because he likes the way it looks and it always reminds him of his dad when he sees it or feels it on his finger. If he were to lose it, there were three things that would makes him very sad. First, it was a gift from his father, so he would feel bad for losing a gift that his dad was so kind to buy for him. Second, he would be bummed that he lost such a nifty looking ring. And thirdly, he feels like the ring has become a part of him and if it were to be lost he would feel like a part of him was missing. Oh, and I guess I should add that if an old fuzzy guy in a gray hat told him to travel to a far away dangerous land and chuck his pretty ring into a raging river of molten lava, he would feel at least mildly disappointed.