![]() ![]() Boromir was allured by it almost instantly. When Elrond called the council of the races, they started fighting over what should be done to the ring. I am answering from the movies (LOTR series) I saw. The time had come for it to be destroyed, and only Frodo was the right amount of brave, fearful and adventurous to get the job done. He would have simply buried the Ring, which would then find a way to get to someone that it could work its will on. He would have tried to find a different hobbit as a way of dealing with it, probably similar to Bilbo's and Gollum's method - keeping it close. Sam could have, but he didn't even have a desire to carry it to be destroyed. THE HOBBIT FRODO FREEOnly one pure of heart and free of desire with a strong-willed mind could have carried the Ring without giving into its will. It was tricky, very tricky and would always seek its master or create a new Sauron (kind of like Voldemort in Harry Potter with his Horcruxes). The Ring was evil, and would always lead those that sought to master it towards evil. Having a part of Sauron's soul inside it, it would convince people as it had Boromir and earlier Isildur that they could defeat Sauron with it - that they could master it. Gandalf and Aragorn were wise enough to know that the Ring's will would try to subvert them. Peter Jackson did a lot to interpret his works as faithfully and truthfully as he could and also added elements that come from other books. Sam is actually considered the true hero of the story by Tolkien, and as Mistu4u pointed out, there is a lot of allegory and meaning he put into The Lord of the Rings. He only debates giving Frodo back the ring because Frodo seems desperate for it as Gollum is. His lack of desire is displayed in his request for rope from the elves. This is because he only desires to garden and help his friends. Sam is actually the only bearer of the ring that isn't affected by it. He has what's described as a pure heart, but even he is affected by the ring. The fact that he is able to is quite remarkable because he is the first possessor of the ring to willingly give it up. He wants adventure and the ring latches onto that so that we see Bilbo has to give up his ring as well. We see Boromir give in to the will of the ring and he's only near it. It takes a strong and stubborn mind to resist it. The ring has a will of its own and will work itself towards evil anytime that it can. The pull of the ring is not too great on the hobbits because it senses nothing remarkable or exceptional in them. Which helps to explain how he has lived so long and also becomes invisible when he wears the ring. Now Gollum was originally of a race that was very similar to the hobbits. ![]() The other hobbits that adventure with Frodo are brought along simply because they know enough that they would be tortured by Sauron and his minions to get the little bit of information that they do have. Even then Gandalf has to basically shanghai them to make them leave. Every hobbit seems content to live their whole life in the Shire and never venture outside except for Bilbo and his nephew Frodo. ![]() So we have a race that is uncorrupted, basically good (there seems to be no crime in the Shire) and stubborn. This can be seen in their constant desire to not just eat but have a set schedule of eating times. They had a single minded simplistic view of life. There seemed to be something exceptional in the hobbits nature that really only Gandalf seemed to notice. The hobbits weren't included as a race that Sauron tried to convert to his power with rings. ![]()
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