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In Shakespeare's King Lear, Lear states: "But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, / That mine own tears do scald like molten lead"

In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings the One Ring is described as a "wheel of fire".

“I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.” -- Frodo Baggins speaking to Samwise Gamgee.

Also: "A crouching shape, scarcely more than the shadow of a living thing, a creature now wholly ruined and defeated, yet filled with a hideous lust and rage; and before it stood stern, untouchable now by pity, a figure robed in white, but at its breast it held a wheel of fire." -- A description of Gollum and Frodo, respectively, as seen by Samwise.