![]() ![]() ![]() However, a few Hobbits go against this idea: Frodo and his older cousin Bilbo are each forced into adventure. In their peaceful and secluded home, known as the Shire, they never experience the dangers of the outside world they resist adventure or hardship outside of mundane worries. Frodo is a hobbit, a “Halfling”, who is carefree and loyal, capable of both great laziness and great bravery. Sauron would then crush him and take the Ring from his corpse.Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings: Return of The King.įrodo Baggins is a modern example of ordinary hero, but his story has roots in the ancient examples J.R.R Tolkien studied through his career. He believed that someone such as Aragorn would receive the Ring and then believe that he was powerful enough to defeat Sauron. It was part of the essential deceit of the Ring to fill minds with imaginations of supreme power. However, we also know that the Ring is tricky, and one of the ways it tricks its wearers is with an illusion of power. I interpret the above passage to mean that it's essentially: Possess the Ring -> Defeat Sauron -> Claim the Ring -> Receive power Some read the idea of "claiming" the Ring as going like Possess the Ring -> Claim the Ring -> Receive power -> Defeat Sauron Winning that battle would unmake Sauron just as destroying the Ring did. In other words, even IF someone were to not only take physical possession of the Ring, it would be an epic battle just to attempt to claim it. I think the quote "the true allegiance of the Ring to Sauron" is telling. It would have been the master in the end. But the Ring and all its works would have endured. If Gandalf proved the victor, the result would have been for Sauron the same as the destruction of the Ring for him it would have been destroyed, taken from him for ever. On one side the true allegiance of the Ring to Sauron on the other superior strength because Sauron was not actually in possession, and perhaps also because he was weakened by long corruption and expenditure of will in dominating inferiors. One can imagine the scene in which Gandalf, say, was placed in such a position. This was the essential weakness he had introduced into his situation in his effort (largely unsuccessful) to enslave the Elves. If that happened, the new possessor could (if sufficiently strong and heroic by nature) challenge Sauron, become master of all that he had learned or done since the making of the One Ring, and so overthrow him and usurp his place. Unless some other seized it and became possessed of it. For do I not guess rightly, Aragorn, that you have shown yourself to him in the Stone of Orthanc?’īut even if he did not wear it, that power existed and was in 'rapport' with himself: he was not 'diminished'. For if we have found this thing, there are some among us with strength enough to wield it. ‘Now Sauron knows all this, and he knows that this precious thing which he lost has been found again but he does not yet know where it is, or so we hope. Yet even so, as Ring-bearer and as one that has borne it on finger and seen that which is hidden, your sight is grown keener.Įven Frodo, a hobbit, could use the One!. Did not Gandalf tell you that the rings give power according to the measure of each possessor? Before you could use that power you would need to become far stronger, and to train your will to the domination of others. Only thrice have you set the Ring upon your finger since you knew what you possessed. He's not saying people other than Sauron can't use the Ring at all, but that it's not safe to do so. And that is another reason why the Ring should be destroyed: as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. If any of the Wise should with this Ring overthrow the Lord of Mordor, using his own arts, he would then set himself on Sauron’s throne, and yet another Dark Lord would appear. ![]() The very desire of it corrupts the heart. But for them it holds an even deadlier peril. Its strength, Boromir, is too great for anyone to wield at will, save only those who have already a great power of their own. It belongs to Sauron and was made by him alone, and is altogether evil. I just want to point out they mis-remember what Elrond said: I've seen some fans say that recently, asserting that no one other than Sauron can use the Ring. ![]()
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