Timeline for Would the One Ring even work for anyone but Sauron?
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| Jul 11, 2023 at 17:54 | answer | added | Michael Foster | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Jul 1, 2021 at 10:46 | vote | accept | Nerrolken | ||
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| Mar 11, 2017 at 22:13 | history | edited | Mithical |
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| Feb 28, 2017 at 12:43 | comment | added | user867 | @ElisevanLooij I agree, but I'm not sure why you addressed that comment to me; It seems unrelated to what I was saying. Did you mean to at-mention someone else? | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 14:38 | comment | added | Elise van Looij | @user867 Surely '(Sauron - PowerHePutInTheRing) + PowerHePutInTheRing > Sauron' is more likely, why else would Sauron take the trouble of creating The Ring? Boredom, perhaps, but, as we've seen, it was also a risk, putting that so much of himself into an object that might be stolen or lost. | |
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| Nov 3, 2015 at 23:40 | comment | added | Jonathon | Is that true? Did not the Ring convey this power to Sam in Mordor, when he wore the ring that one time? | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 17:51 | comment | added | Nerrolken | @Rawling "Much better shape" only if your sole standard is long life. The Ringwraiths have lived WAY longer than Men are supposed to, but I'd hardly say they're "in much better shape" than their peers. | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 17:48 | comment | added | Omegacron | @asteri : I assume that's only because Sauron can control the invisibility. For anyone else, it's automatic. | |
| S Jun 13, 2015 at 12:08 | history | suggested | Alfredo Hernández | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2015 at 3:28 | comment | added | user867 | @asteri I suspect it may have been based on the Ring of Gyges, which allowed the wearer to avoid the negative consequences of their actions. | |
| Mar 30, 2015 at 0:49 | answer | added | JMFB | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 2, 2015 at 17:34 | comment | added | Nerrolken | @Rawling There's a big difference between preservation and enhancement. Bilbo and Gollum were preserved (kind of) and saved (kind of) from the ravages of old age, but it's clear that Ring-lust evokes fantasies of enhanced power, of being able to do things you'd never have been able to do without the Ring. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 13:20 | answer | added | Cees Timmerman | timeline score: 7 | |
| S Dec 3, 2014 at 2:59 | history | suggested | MultiplyByZer0 |
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| Sep 24, 2014 at 11:24 | comment | added | Rawling |
It actually seems to diminish its bearers - Bilbo may be "stretched" and Gollum "wretched" but they're both in much better shape than they would've been without the Ring...
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| Sep 24, 2014 at 8:54 | answer | added | turinsbane | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 13:13 | answer | added | einpoklum | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jan 24, 2014 at 22:19 | answer | added | xXGrizZ | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 18, 2014 at 1:07 | comment | added | Basic | youtube.com/watch?v=AOIi9SjJvgU tickled me with its description of the ring ` ... fight for the one ring, which does nothing but turn you into an invisible crack addict` | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 14:52 | comment | added | asteri | This makes me wonder why the Ring even grants the user invisibility. It clearly doesn't do so at all times; when Sauron wears it, he remains visible. And invisibility can't really be interpreted as granting the wielder great powers. So why? | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 3:49 | history | protected | user8719 | ||
| Jan 17, 2014 at 2:04 | comment | added | user8719 | @Oldcat - the latter has already been asked and answered: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26833/… | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 1:41 | comment | added | Oldcat | Makes you wonder what the Numenorians thought of those 9 wraiths hanging around with him while he was captured by them. And how he managed to get the ring out after Numenor was drowned and he lost his pretty body. | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 1:16 | comment | added | user8719 | @Oldcat - Tale of Years for Second Age 2251 - "Tar-Atanamir takes the sceptre. Rebellion and division of the Númenoreans begins. About this time the Nazgûl or Ringwraiths, slaves of the Nine Rings, first appear" - the Nazgul were therefore around for almost 1200 years before the Last Alliance. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 23:17 | answer | added | Frodo Lives | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:30 | answer | added | sksallaj | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 20:48 | answer | added | George | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 20:37 | answer | added | Anthony Caudill | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 19:29 | comment | added | Faheem Mitha | Interesting question - but I wouldn't exactly describe Gandalf as humble. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 18:21 | comment | added | Oldcat | I think the Nazgul were created after that battle - they were kings of men from the North. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 14:37 | answer | added | Alex | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 14:24 | answer | added | eykanal | timeline score: 31 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 12:15 | answer | added | Royal Canadian Bandit | timeline score: 47 | |
| S Jan 16, 2014 at 11:23 | history | suggested | Doug | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2014 at 1:39 | comment | added | Shamshiel | @JimmyShelter: Sauron would have survived regardless, as one of the Ainur. The Ring is what made him vulnerable: the destruction of the Ring meant that Sauron would be reduced to almost nothing. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 1:04 | answer | added | Shamshiel | timeline score: 272 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 0:43 | comment | added | user8719 | @Oldcat : (Sauron - PowerHePutInTheRing) + PowerHePutInTheRing == Sauron; the Ring wouldn't convey any extra power to Sauron aside from control over the other Rings (speaking of which, where were the Nazgul during the Battle of the Last Alliance anyway?) (and one could argue that it did help him avoid destruction since the Ring survived, and so most of Sauron was also able to survive). | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 0:31 | comment | added | Oldcat | this begs the question - would it even work for Sauron? It sure didn't help him when he wore it against Gil-Galad and the like. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 0:26 | comment | added | user8719 | I need to add that in 30+ years of reading Tolkien this interpretation never even occurred to me, but it just makes so much sense: it's obviously exactly the way that the Ring works. Well done again. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 0:16 | vote | accept | Nerrolken | ||
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| Jan 15, 2014 at 23:32 | history | asked | Nerrolken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |