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Finwe · 05-27-2003, 05:27 PM

I don't think that Aragorn would have succeeded if he had taken the Ring. He is naturally so powerful that the Ring would have corrupted him faster, even though he was of the Line of Luthien. Gimli says it himself in Return of the King. If Aragorn had claimed the Ring, he could have challenged Sauron himself, and the latter definitely knew that. That was why the whole ruse of the Host of the West worked. Sauron thought that Aragorn had the Ring, and was going to use it against him.

05-27-2003, 05:27 PM	#20
Finwe Deathless Sun Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos Posts: 2,609	I don't think that Aragorn would have succeeded if he had taken the Ring. He is naturally so powerful that the Ring would have corrupted him faster, even though he was of the Line of Luthien. Gimli says it himself in Return of the King. If Aragorn had claimed the Ring, he could have challenged Sauron himself, and the latter definitely knew that. That was why the whole ruse of the Host of the West worked. Sauron thought that Aragorn had the Ring, and was going to use it against him. __________________ But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.