III Liceo - All That Glisters Is Not Gold

Read the following Wikipedia excerpt to gain a better understanding of the origin of Shakespeare's phrase: "All that glisters is not gold," which he admits "often you have heard that told." You have heard that phrase told many a time, but where. Your mini-project for Monday will be to interpret the phrase in J. R. Tolkien's, "The Riddle of Strider," and find three other examples in literature, music or art that use any variation of the phrase "all that glisters is not gold."

STEP ONE:
All that glitters is not gold is a well-known saying, meaning that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. This can apply to people, places, or things that promise to be more than they really are. The expression, in various forms, originated in or before the 12th century[1] and may date back to Aesop.[2]

Chaucer gave two early versions in English: "But all thing which that schyneth as the gold / Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told," and "Hyt is not al golde that glareth."

The popular form of the expression is a derivative of a line in William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, which employs the word "glisters," a 17th-century synonym for "glitters." The line comes from a secondary plot of the play, the puzzle of Portia's boxes (Act II - Scene VII - Prince of Morocco):

All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgement old
Your answer had not been inscroll'd
Fare you well, your suit is cold.

STEP TWO:
J.R. Tolkien's The Riddle of Strider

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

Write your interpretation of Tolkien's poem in a paragraph. Compare and contrast it to Shakespeare's golden-casket poem.

For those of you who have read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, here is a bit of background on the poem: It appears twice in The Lord of the Rings' first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring. It appears first in Chapter Ten, "Strider", in Gandalf's letter to the hobbits in Bree, before they know that Strider (Aragorn) is the subject of the verse. It is repeated by Bilbo at the Council of Elrond. He whispers to Frodo that he wrote it many years before, when Aragorn first revealed who he was. 

But we know this isn't true ;)

STEP THREE:
Find three references to the phrase in pop culture (so, in music, literature or art). Print out your reference and summarize it in one complex sentence how the reference is used.