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"Tolkien's critics have complained that the moral economy of the work is radically flawed--that there is a confusion between whether the corrupting ring symbolizes sinful desire (the lust for power, or whatever) or should be seen as a magical object that acts upon the wearer as an external force."
Confusion-i.e. a number of different appears-simply means that there was sufficient depth in the Ring for varying interpretations
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Well, here's one. I always thought that it was a bit of both. For somebody like Gandalf or Galadriel it is more of a desire for power. For somebody like Frodo or Sam it is more of an external force weighing them down. Although, to a degree, I think that the Ring would have both aspects to any character (like when the Ring was trying to delude Sam outside Cirith Ungol.)
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