MrWaffleMayo🇨🇦 :
Don't be mad at Frodo for failing in the end to resist the ring, no one can resist the ring. The whole point was that no one can actually destroy the ring, no one has the strength to actually throw it away in the end. The Valar (the gods basically and the ones who sent the 5 wizards to help Middle Earth deal with Sauron), basically had to figure out a way to get the ring to someone who could resist it long enough to get it to the mountain. First thing to understand is that all hobbits do seem to naturally be more resistant to the ring because they don't really have a strong desire for power. Second thing, that Tolkien mentions in his letters, is that it matters HOW you came by the ring. So the ring was able to have such a hold on Smeagol because Smeagol murdered for it. The ring had a smaller effect on Bilbo because he won it in a riddle competition against Smeagol. A bit of a dishonest riddle competition, but still he did win it. Then the ring had the least effect on Frodo because Bilbo was able to honestly let it go and include it in his possessions he left for Frodo. So Frodo was the only one in history of having the ring that hadn't murdered, stolen and lied to get it. Frodo was right, it would have destroyed Sam, although Sam was able to resist the ring and give it back. In part because he hadn't stolen it either, he honestly thought Frodo was dead and was going to finish off their mission, but also in part because of what the ring was showing him to tempt him. We don't see it in the movie, but the ring had been showing him images of him being strong, beating back the forces of Mordor with a flaming sword and turning the land into a lush garden. However, Sam simply did not want that burden, they seemed great but his hobbit-sense and humble self reminded him that was to big of a task and all he really wanted was his own garden to tend with his own hands, not to command others on how to tend a garden. So really, the ring couldn't honestly temp Sam cause it didn't understand what Sam wanted. The ring was made to empower in all the wrong ways and Sam just wanted a honest days work and to share drinks with friends by the end of it.
2026-10-03 19:32:12