The One Ring of Power: History, Powers, & Travels | Tolkien Explained

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I can relate to Sauron. I am not worried about losing my socks in the house, because I know they will eventually return to their one and true master.

Honestly I think my favourite moment is the Ring's multiple attempts to tempt Sam. After same rejects the vision of himself as "Hero of the Age", the Ring instead tries to show Sam nurturing Mordor into a beautiful Garden, trying to play to the simple gardner's love. But Sam sees through this illusion as well, and rejects the temptation of the ring AGAIN.

I always loved how the Ring couldn’t understand Sam, trying to tempt with huge gardens built by slave labor and all that. It shows how much Sauron failed to understand—he thought only in terms of what he would do, never comprehending the motives of more benevolent and less power-hungry beings; thus, he bought the bait offered at the Black Gate by Aragorn the heir of Isildur and Gandalf, whom the Dark Lord believed desired to become a Kingmaker if we can measure by the poison he sown in the mind of Denethor… And his Ring, infused with all his malice and cruelty, failed to understand the simple humility of hobbits and tried to impress Sam with delusions of grandeur that were antithesis on to his character; instead of tempting Sam, it repulsed him and furthered his resolve to save Frodo and finish the Quest.

The most entertaining moment in the Ring’s existence is definitely one of times Bilbo used it to hide from the Sackville-Bagginses. Anyone with relatives they don’t like will understand.

one of the best parts of the books And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dûr was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare. Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung. From all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerless, bereft of will, wavered and despaired. For they were forgotten. The whole mind and purpose of the Power that wielded them was now bent with overwhelming force upon the Mountain. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ring-wraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom.

You seem to have missed the key point - as most people have done - that when Frodo uses the Ring against Gollum on the slopes of Mount Doom, he commands that Gollum will be cast into the Cracks of Doom if he harms him,. Gollum did harm him, and was bound by the Ring's own power of command to fall. Therefore, the Ring was unmade by it's own power and design, the power to dominate and command - it wasn't a matter of good fortune. I'm certain that this was intentional on Tolkien's part, as the command doesn't make any sense if they're not at the Cracks of Doom.

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I love how the One Ring is so important it's basically its own character! 💍

Never been a more iconic Ring in any book, movie, or game. Tolkien made history by turning a magic ring in the Hobbit into one of the most powerful objects in fantasy.

Gollum did not fall to his death while celebrating. Bit of a long explanation but here it goes: While in Lothlorien, Frodo asks Galadriel why he cannot control people's will if he bears the ring. Galadriel responds that it is because he has not tried to. When Gollum attacks Frodo and Sam, part of the reason he continues to show them the way is that his will has been so sapped away by the ring, that he is completely at the will of the one who bears it. Frodo starts to use the one ring to keep Gollum in check. Frodo swore that if Gollum tried to claim the Ring he would be cast into the Fire. "In the last need, Sméagol, I should put on the Precious; and the Precious mastered you long ago. If I, wearing it, were to command you, you would obey, even if it were to leap from a precipice or to cast yourself into the fire. And such would be my command." On the slopes of Mount Doom Frodo issued a command through the Ring to Gollum: "If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom." So when Gollum assaults Frodo and bites off his fingers, the will of the ring forces him to yeet himself.

I'm the only one that can actually use it.

It's such a nice coincidence that the "Rings of Power" series name was revealed just as NotR finished his Tolkien Explained videos on all the rings of power!

My favorite one ring moment is when Aragorn pledges his sword to Frodo for taking the brave task of carrying the ring to Mount Doom, and that comes to a full circle, when at the black gates, Aragorn shouts "FOR FRODO" and charges forward alone, because he had full unwavering trust on the little hobbit to destroy the one ring.

Faramir didn't take the ring from Frodo because Faramir understood the ring would overthrow his mind like the ring did with Boromir.

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This is stunning to me. I thought Isildur was one of the heroes of that last desperate battle against Sauron. To think that an even more legendary and desperate battle was being fought in front of him is awesome!

3 Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, 7 for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, 9 for Mortal Men, doomed to die, 1 for the Dark Lord on his dark throne. And yet it is so strange to note that Tolkien died on 1973!

"I can't carry it for you Mr. Frodo, but I can carry you" 😢 gets me crying every time