Poll of the Day > LotR: How much power would you have if you had all the rings...

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Except for the ONE ring, of course.

You have all the other ones... and are wearing all of them somehow

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According to DnD you can't wear more than one ring per hand, so, you might need some extra hands hidden away somewhere.

shadowsword87 posted...

According to DnD you can't wear more than one ring per hand, so, you might need some extra hands hidden away somewhere.

What about on your feet

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That's too much power for one person.

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If it were any of those guys, theyd go mad with power. But if I were me Id manage to wear all of them and everything would be fine

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The primary power of the rings is immortality, and gifting other people, objects or places immortality.

The primary power of the One Ring is being able to control the other rings and the people who own them.

I don't actually know if they "stack" in any meaningful way. It's never brought up, so I would assume they don't? Or even if they do, the limiting factor would still be the wielder (so there's nobody powerful enough to dual wield rings).

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You'd have power greater than those who wield individual rings, sure, but the problem is that the other rings are all subservient to the One, so using those rings would turn you into a thrall of the lord of the One.

Incidentally, this is why those who hold the three elven rings use them in a very minimal way and keep them hidden.

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Gaawa_chan posted...

You'd have power greater than those who wield individual rings, sure, but the problem is that the other rings are all subservient to the One, so using those rings would turn you into a thrall of the lord of the One.

Incidentally, this is why those who hold the three elven rings use them in a very minimal way and keep them hidden.

hey ya.... when the one ring was destroyed what happened to the other rings?

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Sauron had to put a considerable amount of his power into the One Ring in order to control the others, so the combined power of the various rings (and there were more than just the Three, the Seven, and the Nine) would still add up to less than the power of the One.

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Lokarin posted...

Except for the ONE ring, of course.

Hah. I was coming in to say it didn't matter how many Rings you had, because if you had the One, it would eventually subvert you and you'd fall under Sauron's control and would wind up with no power in the end.

But you sidestepped that particular trap!

You'd still be screwed, though. Because the Ringwraiths are all kings who once held and wielded the Nine Rings and wound up being controlled by Sauron, because that's the power he holds over all the Rings and those who hold them (which is why he's literally known as "The Lord of the Rings" - the series is named after him).

If you're human (and we all are - none of us are elves or dwarves), we'd eventually be brought down by even a single Ring, and become his slave.



shadowsword87 posted...

According to DnD you can't wear more than one ring per hand, so, you might need some extra hands hidden away somewhere.

Even though D&D stole most of its ideas from LotR (and the rest from Jack Vance and Michael Moorcock), D&D rules don't retroactively apply to LotR. There was never an explicit "one ring per hand" or "artifact slot" or "attunement" rules in LotR.

In theory, if you got all 20 Rings (or any number of lesser rings, which DID exist), you could theoretically wear them.

And then you'd look like this:

http://www.comicsblog.fr/images/galerie/bigimage/green-lantern-emerald-twilight-urban.jpg



SpeedDemon20 posted...

That's too much power for one person.

No one man should have all that power.
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Lokarin posted...

hey ya.... when the one ring was destroyed what happened to the other rings?

http://youtu.be/jltwAEQ4kGg?t=107
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Lokarin posted...

hey ya.... when the one ring was destroyed what happened to the other rings?

They lost their power, and things that were being sustained by them (like Rivendell, Lothlorien) started to decay and fade away, similar to how the Black Gate and Dol Guldur crumbled when the One Ring was destroyed.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

They lost their power, and things that were being sustained by them (like Rivendell, Lothlorien) started to decay and fade away, similar to how the Black Gate and Dol Guldur crumbled when the One Ring was destroyed.

Do all the lesser rings lose their power when their creator dies or wut?

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The One Ring was secretly connected to all the other Rings, they were supposed to be independent. Sauron helped the elves create the original three rings and used that knowledge to enslave the other rings like the scallywag he is.

I believe Sauron actually created the other sixteen rings himself afterwards and so they were deliberately connected to the One Ring from the get go. I could be mistaken on that though.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

none of us are elves or dwarves)

A few of us are trolls, though

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Sauron, in disguise, taught the Elves the art of making rings of power. He had a hand in the making of most of the rings, except the Three, which Celebrimbor made in secret. Then Sauron forged the One Ring, and bound much of his own power into the Ring so it might overcome the will of the Elves and control the others. As soon as he put on the Ring, the Elves knew they were betrayed and took off their rings. Sauron attacked and was able to seize most of them, but the Three were hidden and remained safe.

Sauron gave the Nine to men, who used it to become great kings and sorcerers, but the corrupting influence of the One Ring eventually turned everything they did to evil. The Rings extended the lives of the wearers, but they became more and more ethereal until they were reduced to wraiths, becoming the Ring Wraiths or Nazgl, their lives bound to Sauron's will.

Sauron gave the Seven to the Dwarf lords, but Dwarves are not so easily turned. Their main love is for gold, and it was said that the base of every great Dwarven hoard was a Ring of Power. But their lust for treasure ultimately lead to their downfall. Four of the Seven were consumed by dragons, and the remaining three eventually returned to Sauron. The last of these was taken from Thrin II, father of Thorin Oakenshield.

The Three remained hidden until Isildur cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand. Untainted by Sauron's power, the Elves were able to use the Three, though their power was still bound to the One, and when it was destroyed, the Three began to fade. The Three Rings were Narya, the Ring of Fire, originally held by Crdan the Shipwright and later by Gandalf the Grey, Nenya, the Ring of Water, wielded by Galadriel, and Vilya, the Ring of Air and the most powerful of the Three, born first by Gil-galad and then after his death by Elrond.

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What happens if you use the one ring as a cock ring?
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Blightzkrieg posted...

I believe Sauron actually created the other sixteen rings himself afterwards and so they were deliberately connected to the One Ring from the get go. I could be mistaken on that though.

Sauron and Celebrimbor forged the Nine and the Seven together.

Then Celebrimbor basically went off and forged the Three on his own, while Sauron returned to Mordor to forge the One.

Because Sauron had no part in the making of the Three they weren't as corrupt (and because they were forged last they were the greatest works of Celebrimbor's skill), and could do good things (and they were at the root of the protections cast around Rivendell and Lothlorien), but even so they were forged using his lore, and thus were still bound to the One.

If Sauron had recovered the One Ring (and with it, the greater part of his own power), he would have had full mastery over the Three as well. But with the destruction of the One Ring, all other Rings, including the Three, fade and lose all their power.

It is mentioned that there are other, lesser rings (hence the difference between capital "R" Ring and lowercase "r" ring), but it's never explicitly mentioned whether or not those are tied to the One Ring as well.
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I legitimately assumed Celebrimbor was non canon because he starred in those fanfic games.

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GanonsSpirit posted...

What happens if you use the one ring as a cock ring?

Pretty sure that was the plot of the Lord of the Rings porn parody.
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Lord of the G-Strings starring Dildo Saggins

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Blightzkrieg posted...

I legitimately assumed Celebrimbor was non canon because he starred in those fanfic games.

He's canon, but most of what happens in the games isn't. Different Nazgul, the whole thing with Sauron killing Celebrimbor's family, Shelob being able to be a sexy lady, etc was all made up for the games.

Celebrimbor's the grandson of Feanor, who created the Silmarils and basically set most of the history of the world in motion (see also, the The Silmarillion). Master crafting and getting duped by evil runs in the family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrimbor
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