Timeline for Why didn't Frodo tell the others that Boromir would try to take the One Ring?
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| Nov 7, 2021 at 16:33 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=143126 by developer User.Id=151687 | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 16:33 | comment | added | user143126 | I think you make a good point that the One Ring had tried to make Boromir its new owner when it slipped free of Frodo and Boromir then picked it up from the snow covered ground. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 23:19 | comment | added | David Z | @Spencer Well, the ring does have adversaries. Maybe it just can't handle the complex multi-step planning required to prevent the fellowship from turning its own actions against it. Plus, there are plenty of examples of humans making decisions that turn out to backfire on them, sometimes spectacularly, so it's not a stretch to see how a semi-sentient (or sapient or whatever) magical object could do the same. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 17:09 | comment | added | Spencer | @Fabio I've always wanted to ask if the Ring "wanted" to be destroyed. Several of the key links on the path to its destruction were caused by its own effects. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 13:32 | comment | added | Fabio says Reinstate Monica | @IanKemp This answer just says that "the Ring is semi-sentient". Just semi. And I think it's fitting. Gandalf says "A Ring of Power looks after itself" and "It was not Gollum, Frodo, but the Ring itself that decided things". | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 13:30 | comment | added | Alexander Nied | Perhaps "sapient" is more accurate than "sentient"? | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 12:38 | comment | added | Kaddath | Isn't the ring slipping free in the path of Boromir in the Misty Moutains made up by Peter Jackson too? I don't remember this from the books.. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 10:52 | comment | added | Ian Kemp | The Ring is absolutely not sentient. Its "actions" are merely manifestations of the magic it has been imbued with, in order to attempt to comply with the will of its creator. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 1:31 | comment | added | Dale M | @Shamshiel well, yeah | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 1:05 | comment | added | Shamshiel | The movies dramatically overplayed the sentience and allure of the Ring, but I suppose this is a good movie answer. | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 23:18 | history | answered | Dale M | CC BY-SA 4.0 |