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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 752984" data-attributes="member: 527">Tangentially, I am curious if Alzrius' question comes after reading the book or seeing the movie.  The characterization of the One Ring is a bit different in each.  In the book, I think its clearer what exactly the Ring is all about.  I think its easier to miss some of the subtleties in the movie.  For instance: Boromir says in the Council that "This Ring is a great gift.  Let us take it and use it against our enemy."  Galadriel gives her "Dark Queen" speech.  But other than that, I dont think the movie really addresses the issue of exactly how powerful the Ring could be.  (Not that I'd expect 2/3s of the movie trilogy to be as deep as 3 thick books.)Also, in the movie, the Ring is a much more immediately corrupting influence, so proportionally, there seems to be more "fuss" over it.  Ie, everyone is strongly and immediately affected.  In the movie, only Aragorn and Gandalf have successfully withstood the test of the ring; while in the book it is closer to say that only Boromir and Saruman had failed. I thought more that it grants anyone a huge amount of power, but can only tempt them with visions of how they personally might use that power.  So Boromir sees using the Ring to turn the tide of the war he is losing.  Sam sees becoming a great gardener; but this would be gardening on an unimaginable scale.Anyway, I always thought of the hobbits as being more immune to the temptations of the Ring because they are generally happy and sheltered from the cares of Middle Earth.  The Ring has to start small with them; offering visions of gardens and food and maybe Lobelia stuffed in a wood-chipper.   In a similar way, the Ring had to abandon poor Gollum, because it couldnt find a way to shake him out of his exile under the mountain.  It could offer him dreams of power, but Gollum's world had become so small that he didnt need anything other than a handful of fish and the Precious.</blockquote>

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