I know this has nothing to do with the question and maya but..
the one ring is easier to make in bryce.You write the things in photoshop or another prog on black background.then in bryce, you create a terrain and open the terrain editor. then you choose the pic and you have the writings of Mordor. create a ring and set the boolean type of the ring to positive and of the writings to negative. mm....then the ring is done I think....