Timeline for Why is invisibility the power granted by the One Ring?
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| Jul 7, 2023 at 17:40 | comment | added | Kelly S. French | @Zibbobz We do see someone beside Frodo wear the One Ring, Tom Bombadil. I'm not arguing (really) but pointing out an exception that is a doozy because Tom may not actually count as a 'someone' due to the possibility that he doesn't exist in the same realm as Middle Earth, and is an allegory for the ineffability of Nature. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 11:09 | comment | added | Mikey Mouse | Bilbo was hired as a burglar. Frodo was never identified as a thief or rogue. What he needed most was a teleportation spell. Isildur needed arrow deflection and got invisibility. Tom Bombadil didn't need anything... and he got it. Maybe you're onto something. | |
| Jan 26, 2015 at 15:44 | comment | added | David Conrad | We also see Sam wear it, and turn invisible, although admittedly that doesn't add much as an additional data point. | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 23:22 | comment | added | Micah | Isildur is not a hobbit, nor any kind of thief, and he also turns invisible when he wears the Ring. This is implicit in The Lord of the Rings (Gandalf says "He leaped into the waters, but the Ring slipped from his fingers and then the Orcs saw him and killed him with arrows.") and made more explicit in The Silmarillion ("Isildur himself escaped by means of the Ring, for when he wore it he was invisible to all eyes; but the Orcs hunted him by scent...") | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 19:36 | comment | added | RubberDuck | I can't remember the relevant chapter, but this is the correct answer. The ring magnifies the wearer's natural abilities. The hobbits are able to go undetected naturally. The ring just enhances their natural ability to hide. | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 12:59 | comment | added | Frames Catherine White | I thought it was less that Bilbo was a theif, and more that he was a hobbit and hobbits are naturally very good at hiding (explictly stated at start of one of the books.). So it is enhancing hobbits natural form not the occupations skill set. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | Zibbobz | This is speculation though. We never see anyone wear it other than Frodo. And while Gandalf says he would become powerful and terrible if he wore it, he is also a Maia, and therefore would be different entirely in how he was affected. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 17:25 | comment | added | OneNecklaceToRuleMostOfThem | Also, this is why Gandalf refused to carry the ring. The more powerful the person, the more power, the more corrupt. | |
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| Jan 23, 2015 at 17:21 | history | answered | OneNecklaceToRuleMostOfThem | CC BY-SA 3.0 |