Timeline for Did Faramir reject the One Ring because the blood of Numenor ran true in him?
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| Jan 20, 2015 at 12:27 | comment | added | user31546 | Tolkien in one of his notes said galadriel with the ring would still be destroyed by sauron so even with the ring aragorn has no chance, tolkien said he would expect gandalf the white with the ring would destroy sauron. | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 1:11 | comment | added | Misha R | Still, it's difficult to argue against the book placing some emphasis on Numenorean heritage as being generally significant, whether or not it was the deciding factor in Faramir's case. Important point, so I'll +1 this thing anyway. | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 0:58 | comment | added | Misha R | The book doesn't say anything about hobbits being especially resistant to the One Ring. The closest it comes to saying that they are special in any way is Gandalf saying that hobbits always amaze/surprise him. However, that doesn't seem to me to be in reference to the ring. In fact, according to him it was Bilbo's compassion, rather than any heritage, that prevented him from being as susceptible to the ring as he could have been. As for other hobbits, well - Gollum was something of a hobbit. And Frodo, of course, very much fell to the ring's influence in the end. | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 0:15 | comment | added | ohmi | True, they were given those Rings by Sauron, presumably they put them on in his presence and so were lost because he still had the One in his possession and used it for its intended purpose. Perhaps other great lords had refused Sauron's gifts out of caution or wisdom; we aren't told that. So not quite apple-to-apples there. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 23:57 | comment | added | user8719 | But: "Yet Sauron was ever guileful, and it is said that among those whom he ensnared with the Nine Rings three were great lords of Númenórean race" (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age) - so if purer Númenóreans of the Second Age were susceptible to the lesser rings, then surely a more-mixed Númenórean of the Third Age would be more susceptible to the One. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 23:48 | history | answered | ohmi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |