I don't understand the one ring

[Sea Moose]

And what is there to understand ?

Is a ring

It would own you

reproduce?

Profit!

 

[Fritzo]

The other day, I got a hold of the TWO Ring---now I'm going to pwn your asses:

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34837

 

[Rastus]

It's precious.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
The other day, I got a hold of the TWO Ring---now I'm going to pwn your asses:

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34837

I remember getting that from my fishing quests, back when I played WoW, is it still valuable, what with the new expansion and all?

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: LS21
that is the dumbest thing ive ever read

Never read a casiotech post?

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: Red Irish

Originally posted by: skace
Ok I understand there are a lot of wiki posts and large blocks of text in here but I had a somewhat more basic understanding of the ring. Someone let me know if it's at least accurate. I thought the one ring had nearly limitless power, but 'using' that power was what corrupted. Frodo was entrusted with the ring because knowledge was that he was, by far, the least corruptible being and thus most likely to succeed on the task. Corruption from the ring, came from nearly limitless power, the power to do anything, which is why the elf woman told him that, should he give her the ring, she'd be the most powerful ruler the world had ever known. So basically, Frodo, Gollum and Bilbo, all hobbits, had similar affects of invisibility due to a natural evasion to combat, where as a charismatic elf would be loved to an extent that almost breaks free will, and something like an orc or human might have been powerful beyond compare.

In other words, even the 2% of the rings power that Frodo used almost got him killed and it took significant will power on his part to resist using any more.

The power provided is proportionate to the original power of the bearer: Frodo would have simply ended up like Gollum; however, Galadriel, who was almost a peer of Sauron to begin with, would have grown more powerful than the Dark Lord as a result of the ring.

It is also proportionate to the proximity to Sauron/Mordor. So the closer Frodo came to Mordor the more stressful it became to bear the ring.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: LS21
that is the dumbest thing ive ever read

It's actually good shit.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: Red Irish

Originally posted by: skace
Ok I understand there are a lot of wiki posts and large blocks of text in here but I had a somewhat more basic understanding of the ring. Someone let me know if it's at least accurate. I thought the one ring had nearly limitless power, but 'using' that power was what corrupted. Frodo was entrusted with the ring because knowledge was that he was, by far, the least corruptible being and thus most likely to succeed on the task. Corruption from the ring, came from nearly limitless power, the power to do anything, which is why the elf woman told him that, should he give her the ring, she'd be the most powerful ruler the world had ever known. So basically, Frodo, Gollum and Bilbo, all hobbits, had similar affects of invisibility due to a natural evasion to combat, where as a charismatic elf would be loved to an extent that almost breaks free will, and something like an orc or human might have been powerful beyond compare.

In other words, even the 2% of the rings power that Frodo used almost got him killed and it took significant will power on his part to resist using any more.

The power provided is proportionate to the original power of the bearer: Frodo would have simply ended up like Gollum; however, Galadriel, who was almost a peer of Sauron to begin with, would have grown more powerful than the Dark Lord as a result of the ring.

It is also proportionate to the proximity to Sauron/Mordor. So the closer Frodo came to Mordor the more stressful it became to bear the ring.

But it also becomes easier for the bearers to access its primary powers, even hobbits (as alluded to in the Great Wall of Text).

One power the Ring could give was an aura of terrible power which would emanate from the Ring and onto its wielder. When Sam encountered an orc in the Tower of Cirith Ungol and held the Ring, he appeared to the orc as a powerful warrior cloaked in shadow "[holding] some nameless menace of power and doom."

Similarly at Mount Doom, when Frodo and Sam were attacked by Gollum, Frodo grabbed the Ring and appeared as "a figure robed in white... [and] it held a wheel of fire." In this scene, Frodo also accessed a second power of the Ring. Frodo told Gollum "in a commanding voice" that "If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom," a statement fulfilled when Gollum fell into Mount Doom with the Ring.

The reason Sauron was so concerned about Aragorn claiming the ring was not because it would turn him invisible. Rather it was because Aragorn (already being a great leader of men) would gain the Power of Command enabling him to bend all to his will.