Poll of the Day > You: Uses The One Ring for personal gain and as a cheap party trick

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Me: Only ever uses The Ring in situations that call for it, and never for my explicit benefit.

We are not the same.

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Actual me: Doesn't use it because i'm not a fucking idiot.

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after all, why shouldnt i? why shouldnt i post cringe?

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Watch out for those Ringling Brothers!

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Kanatteru posted...

after all, why shouldnt i? why shouldnt i post cringe?

WELL IF I'M POSTING CRINGE ITS YOUR FAULT

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Kimbos_Egg posted...

Actual me: Doesn't use it because i'm not a fucking idiot.

This. It's a ring that alerts undead monsters and an evil tyrant to your presence. Even if my life was in danger, I'd have to weigh how much danger against how much other danger I'd be in by using it.

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Kimbos_Egg posted...

Actual me: Doesn't use it because i'm not a fucking idiot.

Actual You: If you lived in a universe where it actually existed, the LotR books/movies wouldn't exist, and you'd probably have absolutely no idea what it was until after you'd used it dozens of times and pretty much damned yourself.

Not to mention that it's easy to SAY you've got the willpower to resist what is essentially magical ultra-heroin, but probably a lot harder to DO when it's actually in your possession and whispering directly into your brain how awesome it would be to just put the ring on and use it to be awesome.

Especially since, in-universe, normal humans were pretty much the worst possible people to have any ring, since they were the ones least capable of not giving in to temptation.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

That's not really as clever as it thinks it is, considering Sauron's only like that with Frodo when Frodo is literally in the heart of Sauron's domain, and for most of the time Bilbo had the ring Sauron was still pulling himself together (it's the whole point of the Necromancer of Dol Guldur nonsense).

It's like complaining that someone replies to your posts here but are ignoring your posts on an entirely different site that they don't even know exists.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Actual You: If you lived in a universe where it actually existed, the LotR books/movies wouldn't exist, and you'd probably have absolutely no idea what it was until after you'd used it dozens of times and pretty much damned yourself.

Not to mention that it's easy to SAY you've got the willpower to resist what is essentially magical ultra-heroin, but probably a lot harder to DO when it's actually in your possession and whispering directly into your brain how awesome it would be to just put the ring on and use it to be awesome.

Especially since, in-universe, normal humans were pretty much the worst possible people to have any ring, since they were the ones least capable of not giving in to temptation.

No. The assumption was clearly that we know what the ring is. Nobody said anything about traveling to another world.

And yes, its pretty easy for me to avoid things that will destroy me.

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As far as LOTR goes I've only read The Hobbit, but Bilbo never knew of the ring's origin or powers, did he? He just knew it made you invisible.

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Technically, The One Ring was just a cool magic ring in The Hobbit, and it just gained more importance when LotR trilogy was being made

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i would destroy it, not for altruistic reasons, but so no one else can ever have it, ok?

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PK_Spam posted...

Technically, The One Ring was just a cool magic ring in The Hobbit, and it just gained more importance when LotR trilogy was being made

Rewriting Riddles in the Dark is the kind of thing that would lead to death threats in modern nerd culture. One of history's biggest retcons.

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Kimbos_Egg posted...

No. The assumption was clearly that we know what the ring is.

That was your assumption, it was never stated, nor even implicit in the premise of the topic.



Kimbos_Egg posted...

Nobody said anything about traveling to another world.

Considering you live in this world where the ring doesn't exist, either it would have to be made to exist here or you'd have to go to where it is, so it's an issue either way.

The vast majority of people in Middle Earth have no fucking clue what the ring is, or what it does. It's why Bilbo was so damned casual about it. It just seems otherwise because the story is constantly showing you people like Gandalf and Elrond and Galadriel who are pretty damned unique in the setting.

If you grew up in Middle Earth and found the ring, you'd have zero reason to be afraid of it. You wouldn't even know it was magical until after the first time you put it on, at which point it would already be influencing you.



Kimbos_Egg posted...

And yes, its pretty easy for me to avoid things that will destroy me.

Only if you know what they are or that they're even harmful in the first place.

If I handed you a spoon you'd have zero reason to be afraid of it. If it happened to be made of Polonium you'd be dead within the week and have absolutely no idea why.

A ring is just a ring. There are probably millions of them in the world. Even magical rings are a dime a dozen in most fantasy settings. Unless you know in advance both that the ring you have is THE One Ring, as well as what that means, there's literally nothing about it that would tell you anything was wrong at all until after it was far too late.
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Id put it on and keep it on all the time. Try to get a bunch of the other ones too to also wear. Fuck it.

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