the ring

Gandalf does say that having it with the intention of taking it to destroy it would result in the Ring's evil being very slow working. I know that the Ring was already affecting Frodo in Bag End, even without really, presumably, looking at it that much, and never using it at all, when Gandalf...

The books make it quite clear the Ring had dominated Frodo more and more, when he was getting closer to Mordor. Eventually he was totally under its power in Sammath Naur. But Frodo already owned the Ring for 17 years, if I am not mistaken. To what degree that time contributed to his eventual...

Did Frodo, of his own free will, agree to take the Ring to Mordor? Or, was he a piece on a chess board being moved by one of the Valar? Note Tolkien's wording: "...some other will was using his small voice." The Council of Elrond: Frodo glanced at all the faces, but they were not turned to...

I mean, he already had a form, why would he lose it if the Ring was destroyed? That was his power, not his body, right? I could see him being destroyed when the Dark Tower, which was held up by the Ring's power, fell down, with him in it, much like happened to him when Numenor sunk, but it...

I know Sauron could probably do it naturally but if Aragorn wanted to use it to make Easterlings join Gondor or his people not fear the Nazgul and keep fighting, or if I wanted to use it to make my Congressman actually serve the district and not special interests or if I wanted to make someone...

A mistake anyway for the Ring and Sauron. Isildur was already the heir of Gondor and thus was a pretty powerful man. After it left him, it only came to lowly Hobbits (Deagol, Smeagol, Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam)). If it had stayed with Isildur, it could have corrupted him and started a civil...

Technically the Grey Havens were closer than Rivendale. Assuming that they could have given the Black Riders the slip, though I think the chances of them being caught are a bit higher, unless aided by a bunch of Elves going West, and taken the Ring across the ocean to where Sauron couldn't go...

Let's say that it's impossible with current human technology to make a ring like the One Ring in which the message in the Black Speech only appears when the ring is heated in a fire (repeatedly). And then let's say you find such a ring - what would you do?

I'm curious if Gandalf could have talked him and his family into being less of jerks if, say, Frodo had died in the boating accident along with his parents, meaning that Bilbo, albeit very reluctantly, ended up leaving not just Bag End but also the Ring to Otho, or, perhaps, Lotho (since Otho...

I mean, is he basically a spirit of malice stuck in the Void (BTW, did Sauron and Saruman go there too?) who can't do more than make angry faces at Middle Earth and those on it or even those in Valinor? Or can he still whisper and corrupt those who are not morally pure enough?

This one's probably a bit nit-picky on my part, but anyway... At the council, Elrond recounts the victory of the Last Alliance and includes: "The Dark Tower was broken, but its foundations were not removed; for they were made with the power of the Ring, and while it remains they will endure."...

Most of the evidence in the books seems to suggest that the answer is "no", but, on the other hand, after reading Shadow of the Past just now, I noticed that Gandalf said that their "dreadful chance" was that Sauron long thought that his Ring HAD been destroyed and so never went looking for it...

I know that Sauron held these Nine after the Nazgul were corrupted, or I think he did, so getting them from him would have been practically impossible. However, in theory, if you threw one of the Nine Rings into Mouth Doom or threw it before Smaug when he was spitting fire, could you destroy...

We know that the Ring would have gotten to Gandalf via his desire to do good, offering him the chance to enhance it. It offered Sam the chance to be a super gardener. It offered Galadriel power and presumably stuff to bring back things from the Elder Days. It offered Boromir a chance to save...

In sense of, addiction, escaping reality. Or at best taking shortcuts. And that itself is what corrupts people? Or maybe i am overthinking it. Though Requiem for a Dream, even for adults is pretty disturbing. Not a bad message but just to mention it. But i am curious to what you think?

As is always my inclination, I was wondering about what would happen if Saruman HAD gotten the One Ring? While he's shown to be less strong-willed than Sauron (as his corruption via the Palantír and Sauron's condescending tone towards him) Tolkien has also stated (in NoME) that being further...

------- THE HOBBITS AND THE RING ------- Behind a green door, a round green door, with a yellow brass knob in the center a Hobbit there lived in comfort and bliss, his visitors welcome to enter. His clan was Baggins, Bilbo his name; for no adventures, and wealth respected. Food and...

In chapter 7 ("Homeward Bound") of book 6 in the RoTK we read (Gandalf speaking to the four hobbits): ‘But if you would know, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone...

I know this may sound silly, but it does have some precedent. Apparently the Ring can draw bad creatures to the bearer, as it did the Watcher in the Water to Frodo. One of the group, possibly Gandalf, can't remember, even remarks as much. I also think it may have drawn the Balrog to them...