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12-25-2005, 12:57 AM | #1 |
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The ring took a huge risk
I was thinking about the ring's decision to betray Isildur right in the river.
The ring took a huge risk that it might be lost forever. I wonder how much the ring can forsee the future. And I wonder how much the ring is rational in its decisions given the information the ring has (and therefore the risks that the ring must take) |
12-25-2005, 01:05 AM | #2 |
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What I've always wondered is exactly howe MUCH that omnipotent-seeming mega-ring actually KNEW at all. This Ring - it could talk, it could persuade people like a devil whispering on the shoulder, it could decide when to get big & slip off ringers and when to stay fitted and stay on hands, it had so much of Sauron's spirit in it - I wonder, what ABOUT this know-it-all Ring? Maybe someone gave Sauron some futuristic prediction that the Anduin would be a safe haven to chill at for a good long while, while Mr. S. got his ducks in a row to do his whole "I will take over the WORLD" shpiel. I thionk that the Ring onluy knows as much as Sauron knows; it's like an outcropping of his own personal knowledge & mentality. That's what I think. Buon Natale, by the way, Wizard From Milan!!!
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12-25-2005, 06:16 AM | #3 |
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Supposing (which I do) the Ring had some sort of will of its own I don't think it ran the risk of being lost forever. As I believe something similar was said on the Council of Elrond, this sort of things cannot remain hidden or lost forever.
Although possibly it thought any place, even spending a few centuries on the muddy bottom of a stream, was better than being on his enemy's hand. In the Gladden Fields it had the only opportunity to slip away from Isildur without the latter having time to look for it, which he would surely have done otherwise. And with all the orcs around it had the best opportunity ever to get back to his own side. It didn't happen, but it was its best shot. A thought just occured to me -if Sauron didn't know that the Ring had not been destroyed after his defeat in the war- could the Ring have known Sauron had survived as well? Or would it have thought it would have to look for a new master?
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12-25-2005, 08:35 PM | #4 |
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i think the ring new that it had to get away from isildur for starters...
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12-27-2005, 10:41 AM | #5 |
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i think it's greatest fear would have been destruction, so it makes sense for it to have taken a move that made it hidden for a time
imagine if isildur had survived... he obviously would have been completely corrupted eventually and the elves of the early third age might have even eventually gone to war against him to capture and destroy the ring... if i remember right, he was headed back to arnor and it is doubtful elrond and cirdan would have put up with a ring-corrupted neighbor for that long
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12-27-2005, 08:40 PM | #6 |
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indeed
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12-27-2005, 10:16 PM | #7 | |
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12-28-2005, 03:49 AM | #8 |
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Maybe the ring was hoping to be swept down the Anduin to Osgiliath, if it made its way to the capital of Gondor, it would be really easy to corrupt enough men to get back to Sauron eventually.
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12-28-2005, 07:18 PM | #9 |
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oooh, clever...
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