"Could you resist?" Topic

In The Lord of the Rings, one obstacle that each hero faces is whether or not they can resist the power of The Ring and their desire to wield it. Boromir fails, while the others ultimately pass the test. Well, Frodo's kind of a question mark…

So from your own judgement of yourself…Could you resist the power of The Ring?

1. No problem. I'm mentally tougher than that.
2. I'd be tempted…not sure what I'd end up doing.
3. I'd cut off Frodo's hand to get it, and run through anyone who tried to take it from me!

Probably. I would most likely trade it for .

I'd sell it on ebay

World domination is #3 on my bucket list. Resist? HA! I wants it, I needs it…

3.

3

3 – Galadriel feared it, Gandalf feared it. Those are heavy dudes man. And I'm no Bombadil, you dig ?

3 of course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In The Lord of the Rings, one obstacle that each hero faces is whether or not they can resist the power of The Ring and their desire to wield it.

What power? The stupid thing is nothing but a garden-variety ring of invisibility that also acts as a random monster lure. Anyone with a lick of sense knows better than to use the cursed campaign MacGuffin.

Also, was the DM dating Frodo's player or something? Seems like every magic item goes to the little runt. Most of them aren't even earned, they're inherited from a relative. Total cheese! :)

Rich, that was pretty funny!

I agree that if Gandalf was worried I'm probably toast.

Thanks,

John

I'd slap that sucker on my finger and be dead meat in no time!

I think the point of the novel is that the lure of the Ring is eventually too great for anyone, even someone as pure-hearted as Frodo.
In the end, we would all fall.
But I hope I could resist long enough for that hobbit to get himself good and out of my influence!!!
2., but eventually 3.

I never worked what the ring did really. Made you invisible, made you a bit mad…something horrible happens if Sauron gets hold of it.

It's not like the wearer could start throwing around the magical equivalent of thermo nuclear war heads or anything.

Anyway I'd clearly be a 1……unless the ring could turn it's self into a busty brunette with a pretty face then it's a 3…..

'I pass the test – I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'

My favourite line in Lord of the Rings

Anyway, I figure I am a 1 – given a few time in my mis-spent youth when I faced somewhat similar situations

I'm not much of a control freak or powermonger… so I imagine I could hold out for a while… unless a VERY tempting situation came along.

I always associated myself with Samwise. He just wants to help his best friend. Whatever it takes. He carried it for a short time, and acted like it was nothing at all, just a trinket. He wasn't tempted at all, there was nothing for him to resist.

I figure to be a 1 … all things considered.

My preciousssss!

LT

I can't even resist a plate of blueberry chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. There is no way I'd not put that ring on.

There is no question mark about Frodo. He failed. "I have come, but I do not chose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The ring is mine." The ring had to be bitten off his finger. Of course I've probably misinterpreted these lines. Alex can and will explain it to us no doubt.

If I knew it was Sauron's ring hopefully I'd be a 1. The problem appears to be the corruption that occurs while you possess it but don't know its true nature.

'I pass the test – I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'

My favourite line in Lord of the Rings

Ring related I like : "Hey ! Come Frodo, there ! Where be you a-going? Old Tom Bombadil's not as blind as that yet. Take off your golden ring ! Your hand's more fair without it"

I could resist a Finecast ring, but probably not a nice pewter ring.

Lost Pict

Mine…my own! put me down for a 3.

Frodo failed in the end and The Ring has to be taken from him. Boromir at least redeemed himself in the end and did not chase Frodo to get the the Ring.

Invisible, huh? he he!

Doh, failed already!

3 They stole The Precious from us, nasty hobbittses.

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…………..sorry, couldn't resist.

Yes, I *could* resist… but I wouldn't want to. Even hypothetically, I know I would grab for Ultimate Cosmic Power…

1

3 in a heart beat.

Filthy Hobbitses, they took my precious.

I would fail so fast.

Chris

According to the novel, the Ring grants power according to the power of the wearer; it's an amplifier of the will, but a twisted one, as the will is selfish and self-centered. Both Galadriel and Sam are depicted as being tempted by the thought of "setting things right" (as Sam puts it), that is to make the world be what each of them thought it should be, regardless of what anyone else desired. For Sam, he would have turned the world into a garden— his garden, laid out and tended as he wished, with everyone acknowledging that he was The Gardener, and all living to serve only his bidding. In essence, the Ring amplifies the will to put yourself on the throne of the world (and by implication, seek to displace God, or Eru/Illuvator in the background of LotR). It cannot grant that ability at all; in truth it only grants the power to destroy and subdue, to intimidate and dominate. Note that Sam briefly has access to that power in the novel The Return of the King when, entering the tower above Cirith Ungol, he clutches the Ring at his breast. An orc sees him, and instead of a small hobbit, beholds him as a dark, towering figure wreathed in power. The orc flees in terror from this apparition— in essence, Sam's will to defeat the orcs and find Frodo has been amplified by the Ring and dominated the orc's natural inclination to fight, overwhelming it with fear of Sam instead (which is what Sam wants). Sam is unaware of this effect, but it gives us insight into the power (and danger) of the Ring.

Now, put the Ring on the hand of a military commander. His will is to defeat the enemy; to crush them and subdue them. His will is to command his forces to do as he orders, regardless of how they feel about it. Morale? PAH! Charge the enemy, maggots! As for the enemy, the commander's will is that they cower, that they be weak, that they break ranks, that they are sapped of courage and become convinced that defeat is inevitable and surrender to that dark commander is the only solution… and the Ring amplifies all this, overwhelming the weak opposition against it. The military commander becomes a juggernaut, his forces but automatons, his end, dictatorship.

That's the power and danger of the One Ring.

So, the question is, how selfish are you, really? Only the truly selfless person can reject the Ring (or the person who knows his self so well that he knows precisely where his self belongs in the plan of the Creator and embraces that fully— which is why Tom Bombadil is completely unaffected by the Ring. He is who he is and wants no more or less than who and what he is. He has no self-centered desires for the Ring to tempt. To him, the Ring and what it does is absolutely silly).

I wouldn't need to ring.

Based on Parzival's comment, I would be sorely tempted by the Ring. There are things I want out of this life still, but I want to achieve them on my own power, no-one else's.

I'd like to think that I'd be tough enough to put it back down after I picked it up.

I would take it and then the world would become the way I want it to be and that would be very nice. Really.

Other than that, I might be persuaded to go for beer instead.

I can't even resist a plate of blueberry chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. There is no way I'd not

eat that ring.