That is why when confronted with the final choice to destroy the Ring once and for all even Frodo in the end fails and only fate saves the day in the form of a creature that was once spared out of pity and now finally plays his last part in the story. The Ring protected itself. Each person who saw the Ring was drawn to it, sometimes quite out of character. Isildur took the Ring from Sauron's hand and, even though he knew what it was and what harm it had done and with Elrond counselling him to destroy it, could not bear to destroy it which, physically, would have been easy, since they were already on the slopes of Mt Doom.
He writes:. But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of Sauron the only fair. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain. Smeagol sees it and immediately lusts after it, kills his friend to get it and then hides in the mountains for many centuries muttering about his "Precious". Bilbo was nearly unable to give it to Frodo even with Gandalf's help. Destroying it would have been much harder. And if he often uses the Ring to make himself invisible, he fades: he becomes in the end invisible permanently, and walks in the twilight under the eye of the dark power that rules the Rings.
Yes, sooner or later - later, if he is strong or well-meaning to begin with, but neither strength nor good purpose will last - sooner or later the dark power will devour him. He said that [the Ring] was "growing on his mind", and he was always worrying about it; but he did not suspect that the ring itself was to blame. A Ring of Power looks after itself, Frodo. It may slip off treacherously, but its keeper never abandons it. At most he plays with the idea of handing it on to someone else's care - and that only at an early stage, when it first begins to grip.
And if it won't let itself be abandoned, it even more strongly resists being destroyed. Once he learns of the Ring's evil, Frodo asks Gandalf:. If you had warned me, or even sent me a message, I would have done away with it. Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, without mark or device that he could see.
The gold looked very fair and pure, and Frodo thought how rich and beautiful was its colour, how perfect was its roundness. It was an admirable thing and altogether precious. When he took it out he had intended to fling it from him into the very hottest part of the fire.
But he found now that he could not do so, not without a great struggle. He weighed the Ring in his hand, hesitating, and forcing himself to remember all that Gandalf had told him; and then with an effort of will he made a movement, as if to cast it away - but he found that he had put it back in his pocket. Gandalf laughed grimly. Already you too, Frodo, cannot easily let it go, nor will to damage it.
And I could not "make" you - except by force, which would break your mind. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine! Sign up to join this community.
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It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. What did cause Frodo to cave in the end and claim the Ring? BalrogRingDestroyer Member. I'm just curious what the Ring could have lured him with to make him cave when he was so close to destroying it. It wasn't like Boromir where he thought that most likely it would fall into Sauron 's hands by taking it to Mordor and that all of the blood spilt by his fellows in Gondor would be for naught and his thought that using it could save Gondor.
Even if Frodo couldn't bring himself to throw it into the fire, why did he put it on his finger and claim it, actually thinking he could be the master of it? Deleted member Guest. I think you raised an interesting matter, BalrogRingDestroyer: what could the Ring have lured Frodo with? As regards seduction, some examples that endorse your point: 1. And then all the clouds rolled away, and the white sun shone, and at his command the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit.
He had only to put on the Ring and claim it for his own, and all this could be. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen.
And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair! Erestor Arcamen Archivist Staff member. Here's the quote from letter The situation as between Frodo with the Ring and the Eight might be compared to that of a small brave man armed with a devastating weapon , faced by eight savage warriors of great strength and agility armed with poisoned blades.
The man's weakness was that he did not know how to use his weapon yet; and he was by temperament and training averse to violence. Their weakness that the man's weapon was a thing that filled them with fear as an object of terror in their religious cult, by which they had been conditioned to treat one who wielded it with servility.
I think they would have shown 'servility'. They would have greeted Frodo as 'Lord'. With fair speeches they would have induced him to leave the Sammath Naur — for instance 'to look upon his new kingdom, and behold afar with his new sight the abode of power that he must now claim and turn to his own purposes'.
Once outside the chamber while he was gazing some of them would have destroyed the entrance. Frodo would by then probably have been already too enmeshed in great plans of reformed rule — like but far greater and wider than the vision that tempted Sam — to heed this. Until Sauron himself came. In any case a confrontation of Frodo and Sauron would soon have taken place, if the Ring was intact.
Its result was inevitable. Frodo would have been utterly overthrown: crushed to dust, or preserved in torment as a gibbering slave. Sauron would not have feared the Ring! It was his own and under his will. Even from afar he had an effect upon it, to make it work for its return to himself.
In his actual presence none but very few of equal stature could have hoped to withhold it from him. Of 'mortals' no one, not even Aragorn. Also the contest took place at a distance, and in a tale which allows the incarnation of great spirits in a physical and destructible form their power must be far greater when actually physically present.
Sauron should be thought of as very terrible. The form that he took was that of a man of more than human stature, but not gigantic. In his earlier incarnation he was able to veil his power as Gandalf did and could appear as a commanding figure of great strength of body and supremely royal demeanour and countenance.
Click to expand Thanks for completing this, Erestor Arcamen; that was indeed the quote I was thinking of.
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