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== Literature ==
* The titular Silmarils in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' are a prime example of Artifacts of Attraction. They don't have any special powers and possessing them provides the owner with no benefits whatsoever. But when Finwë (the creator Fëanor's father) is murdered and his murderer Morgoth (the local Devil stand-in) takes them with him just because they looked interesting, Fëanor swears revenge and makes an oath that he, his sons, and their people will not rest until the murder is avenged and the three jewels returned to their rightful owners. 500 years and no less than seven battles of epic proportions later, almost the entire High Elven nobility has been wiped out one after another, thousands if not millions of elves have been killed by orcs or other elves, and the entire region of Beleriand has been swallowed by the ocean, just because <s>one elf</s> eight elves did not [[Know When to Fold
** And all of the Silmarils end up where mortals (and immortals alike) can no longer reach them, [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|by the way]]. One was sunk into the depths of the sea, one was thrown into a fissure into the core of the Earth, and the final became the planet ''Venus''. Though that might have been the only way to end the whole mess.
* The Zahir from Jorge Luis Borge's 1949 short story ''El Zahir'' is the most fascinating object in the world. It doesn't matter what it is - but there's always one Zahir in the world at any one time. ''Zahir'' is an Arabic word meaning "the obvious meaning," "the conspicuous" or "something that cannot be ignored."
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