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« Reply #720 on: July 19, 2022, 10:06:43 AM »

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« Reply #721 on: July 19, 2022, 10:30:50 AM »

I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."
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« Reply #722 on: July 19, 2022, 11:48:36 AM »

I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."
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« Reply #723 on: July 19, 2022, 11:54:09 AM »

I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."
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« Reply #724 on: July 19, 2022, 12:06:08 PM »

I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."

I'm not an LotR geek, but wasn't Sauron more worried about someone using the ring against him than wanting to use it himself?
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« Reply #725 on: July 19, 2022, 12:12:57 PM »

I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."

I'm not an LotR geek, but wasn't Sauron more worried about someone using the ring against him than wanting to use it himself?

I think it was so infused with his power that with it he considered he would be unstoppable. At least that's always been my understanding. The ring sought its master, so I don't think it would have contributed greatly to someone else.
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« Reply #726 on: July 19, 2022, 12:17:09 PM »

I have just upset some Lord of the Rings fans by asking a simple question, and no it didn't involve eagles.

I just asked "So why were they so worried about Sauron getting the ring? It isn't like he could have put it on."

I'm not an LotR geek, but wasn't Sauron more worried about someone using the ring against him than wanting to use it himself?

I think it was so infused with his power that with it he considered he would be unstoppable. At least that's always been my understanding. The ring sought its master, so I don't think it would have contributed greatly to someone else.

I seem to remember Gandalf and others refusing to even touch the ring because they knew it would both make them more powerful and corrupt them---i.e. make them rivals to Sauron.
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« Reply #727 on: July 19, 2022, 12:51:14 PM »

I could be wrong but I think when Sauron created the ring, he permanently poured some of his own power into it, weakening himself but gaining the means to achieve a greater power by controlling the lesser rings. When he lost the ring, he also lost all the magical might he had put into it and was (literally) left as a shadow of his former self.

While I've read The Hobbit and LotR, I am not a massive Tolkien geek though and I could be wrong.
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« Reply #728 on: July 19, 2022, 01:03:08 PM »

Dang, we need indy to make a ruling here. He's read LOTR about sixty times. Or wait, let's go to the source. Anybody got a Ouija board?
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« Reply #729 on: July 19, 2022, 01:13:57 PM »

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« Reply #730 on: July 19, 2022, 02:31:30 PM »

Sauron didn't need to physically wear the ring, merely to be in possession of it.
Although, if its power had been returned to him, he would have been more than able to transform himself back into an anthropomorphic shape.
His choosing the "eye" as his physical form was not a permanent state of affairs.
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« Reply #731 on: July 19, 2022, 03:39:10 PM »

I loved that first LORD OF THE RINGS film.  The others just slid downhill for me.
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« Reply #732 on: July 19, 2022, 03:59:57 PM »

I loved that first LORD OF THE RINGS film.  The others just slid downhill for me.

Films were a decent adaptation, but the books are ALWAYS better.
ALWAYS.
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« Reply #733 on: July 19, 2022, 04:14:31 PM »

I loved that first LORD OF THE RINGS film.  The others just slid downhill for me.

I had the opposite experience. I loved the first two films, but remember thinking The Return of the King was the best of the three. (The reverse of my preference in the books, which I like in order.)
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« Reply #734 on: July 19, 2022, 04:42:41 PM »

I really wanted them to put in the Barrow Wight scene, although I didn't care for the Tom Bombadil bit straight after.
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