the ring

Frodo had said that if Gollum ever touched him again, that he'd go into the Fire of Mount Doom. As that's actually what ended up happening, was Gollum actually knocked in by the Ring's power, and the Ring, which was taken by him, was done in by a curse done in its own power? Of course, if this...

Since Gandalf is a Mair, he's in the second plane, so to speak. Since the "invisibility" of the Ring leads one to the second plane, could, say, Gandalf have seen Bilbo coming in the Hobbit after losing him in the goblin tunnels? (Gandalf acted as surprised as the others, but even in the...

I get that the later it was, the harder it would be to stop him, so let's pick a scenario that all too likely could have happened: Bilbo is not knocked off of Balin (or whomever was carrying him) and hence does NOT find the Ring and one of the goblin warriors finds it instead and soon, drawn by...

What made it so impervious to everything else? I mean, couldn't they get Gandalf, Saruman (Gandalf didn't yet know he'd gone bad), Radaghast, the Blue Wizards, Eldrond, Galadriel, Celeborn, Thrandil, Tom Bombadil, Melian (where the heck is she during all of this?) and other good powerful...

There is remark of Gandalf about Sauron not looking for the One Ring sooner because he'd believed that it had been destroyed by the Last Alliance. However, I'm wondering, knowing that Sauron fell when the One Ring really was destroyed and he certainly KNEW it was gone when it went into the...

It says that Saruon became aware of him. But I'm wondering why this was so. Was it simply because when somebody claims it, it alerts him. Or did it send some kind of message to the Nine Rings and to the captured Dwarven Rings that someone had claimed the One Ring, and since Sauron had those...

The Ring is treacherous to anybody (save Sauron) that wears it or gets it: 1.) It corrupted Isildur so that he spared it. It then moved off his finger so that he'd be spotted by orcs. (Luckily for Middle Earth, the Ring appears to have fallen into the water, rather than stay in his...

This is actually a pretty solid theory. If the Ring is to be used to get someone what they wanted, whether just invisibility like in the cases of Smeagol and Bilbo, to gold (in the case of dwarves), to power and strength (in the case of men and perhaps wizards), then, to somebody who was...

Let's look at it this way: Isildur: (Took it from Sauron) (Much to the Ring's disgust) Was betrayed by the Ring when it slipped off his finger and he was killed by orcs. Deagol - found it but didn't live long as he was murdered by Smeagol. Smeagol - kept it for centuries, but eventually the...

Look at Carl's hand... He wears the ring.

What if he had misgivings that either it might be destroyed or else taken by someone else and used against him, and hence he never poured his power into it? Would he have perished at the destruction of Numenor or would he still have survived that and now have been hard to beat since he'd still...

Isildur took the Ring for himself after besting Sauron, why didn't Ar-Pharazôn do the same? Ar-Pharazôn sounds like the type of character who would be even more susceptible to trying to use it. than even Isildur. If the Ring was not with Sauron when he was captured (a possibility as one...

Proximity to Sauron doesn't seem to be a factor either. When Sauron did NOT sense someone had the Ring: 1.) All the years Gollum had it. 2,) When Bilbo wore it in Mirkwood (despite Sauron being in Dol Goldor.) 3.) When Frodo wore it in Bree. 4.) When Sam wore it right at the entrance...

He had the One Ring even longer than the Nazgul men had the Lesser Rings yet didn't become a Wraith. From what I'm reading, Gollum didn't wear it all the time (maybe he came to hate it) and had only had it on when he had lost it to Bilbo because it was ideal to wear the Ring when attacking...

so I'm saying this off my mind, forgive if I make a mistake. So Gandalf suspects that Bilbo has a ring, a ring that makes him invisible. That right there should be enough to question bilbos (he finds out during the hobbit). And then again he sees Bilbo invisible again at his 111th birthday. He...

If the Ring is able to change sizes at its will (intentionally slipping off Isildur's finger), why does it not fall off Sam when he is surrounded by orcs?

There’s something I can’t understand in the letter Gandalf wrote to Frodo and which was left unsent in the Prancing Pony. In this letter there is a line that goes as follows: PS. Do NOT use It again, not for any reason whatsoever! I assume that Gandalf means the ring by “It”, but then what is...

Is that drawing in the book Saruman is looking through a drawing by Tolkien of the ring of Barahir? The one Aragorn wears in the film? I can't get any website with pictures of T's drawings yet he was supposed to have done some.

Got my hands on the books for this, and it's fantastic. Firstly, it's the only professionally produced Middle Earth rpg I've seen that doesn't have rules for PC wizards, which is definitely refreshing. Also, the initial setting is a period of ME history frequently over-looked by most RPs-- the...