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08-20-2004, 07:02 AM | #1 |
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Was the Ring Evil?
Was the ring evil. I mean it was used to do evil and its powers were evil but was it evil. I mean can you call an AIMBot evil just because he is programmed to say some evil things. I think not. I think that the ring is neutral and that it was programmed to do its masters bidding and therefore not evil.
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08-20-2004, 10:27 AM | #2 |
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Well, Sauron was evil and he placed a great deal of his power into the Ring with the sole purpose of ensnaring all the other Rings and the people under them. The Ring wasn't programed like a computer, it was Sauron's actual powers that were placed in it, so in essence it was Sauron.
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08-20-2004, 11:06 AM | #3 |
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Evil! Definitely evil... Sauron put a lot of his own 'self' into the thing. It had a malevolent nature.
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08-20-2004, 11:10 AM | #4 |
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i think it was an extension of sauron... a part of his soul was encaptured in it... this would make it 'evil'... or at least like sauron
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08-20-2004, 02:42 PM | #5 |
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And he likely drew upon the remnants of Morgoth's power in the creation of the ring as well, and we all know that Morgoth was totally useless at playing nicely in the sandpit!
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08-20-2004, 03:08 PM | #6 |
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At any rate we have both Elrond's and Gandalf's word that it was "altogether evil." You can see in the events that surround its history. Isildur betrayed, Gollum devoured, even Bilbo playing malicious pranks. And what it did to Frodo wasn't very nice. Even Sam was tempted to become Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age.
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