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Topic	What exactly do people think they'll be able to do with the Ring?LotR spoilers
scar the 1 02/18/18 2:58:10 PM #29:	ClunkerSlim posted... Its a plot hole with a bunch of fan-splaining. The fact is the ring seems pretty useless except for invisibility. Frodo sure couldnt control the other ring bearers. There seems to be a hundred other things in middle earth more powerful than the ring, like that undead ghost army for one. No, it is explained by Tolkien. The Ring gives you power over others. We even see a glimpse of it in Frodo; on the slope of Mount Doom (IIRC) he completely subjugates Gollum for a little while, because his powers grew while he was a Ringbearer. Magic in LotR isn't often about cool spells, like fireballs etc. Heck, even Gandalf doesn't do that a lot. It's much more intangible, like how just chanting the name of a god makes the Nazgul recoil, or how the light of a Silmaril captured in the reflection of Galadriel's mirror helps force Shelob back, or how Saruman's voice charms people of weak will. The undead ghost army wasn't so powerful - what they actually did was just scare people so they abandoned a mission that Sauron had coerced them into using fear. The point of having a Hobbit be the Ringbearer was because Hobbits aren't very thirsty for power, so they don't get corrupted as quickly. Furthermore they aren't very powerful, so they couldn't really be as dangerous as Aragorn, Galadriel or Gandalf would be. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:896320252] in What exact... [t:76332219]...</cite> <quote><cite>ClunkerSlim posted...</cite> <quote>Its a plot hole with a bunch of fan-splaining. The fact is the ring seems pretty useless except for invisibility. Frodo sure couldnt control the other ring bearers. There seems to be a hundred other things in middle earth more powerful than the ring, like that undead ghost army for one.</quote> No, it is explained by Tolkien. The Ring gives you power over others. We even see a glimpse of it in Frodo; on the slope of Mount Doom (IIRC) he completely subjugates Gollum for a little while, because his powers grew while he was a Ringbearer. Magic in LotR isn't often about cool spells, like fireballs etc. Heck, even Gandalf doesn't do that a lot. It's much more intangible, like how just chanting the name of a god makes the Nazgul recoil, or how the light of a Silmaril captured in the reflection of Galadriel's mirror helps force Shelob back, or how Saruman's voice charms people of weak will. The undead ghost army wasn't so powerful - what they actually did was just scare people so they abandoned a mission that Sauron had coerced them into using fear. The point of having a Hobbit be the Ringbearer was because Hobbits aren't very thirsty for power, so they don't get corrupted as quickly. Furthermore they aren't very powerful, so they couldn't really be as dangerous as Aragorn, Galadriel or Gandalf would be. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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