Willie we are in agreement for the most part, but I differ slightly from you in how much awareness I think the Ring had.
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If you say, 'then if the ring could choose and sort of had its own free will then it would have disobeyed sauron, or it could have chosen differently.' Then I say to you, it could have, but didn't.
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In my humble opinion, the Ring did not have that degree of free will. It acted in the manner its creator intended it to act, and within a very limited framework. All its actions were oriented toward returning to Sauron. I don’t think it could have chosen not to do that. That’s why I say only semi-sentient. It had one goal and made no choices outside that goal.
Lo! H.I. is in disguise! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Good luck with your technical difficulties.