I don't know whether I'm saying this just to be different, or to inject some more variety into this thread, but has anyone considered my alternate theory? In LoTR, the forces of Good and Evil seem to physically exist (demonstrated most perhaps by Sauron's psionic power over his armies); the Ring may have been simply a well of evil more than anything. Thus it was the general web of evil 'in the air' that tried to return it to Sauron. Who was himself another well of evil. Maybe it's like two gigantic black holes in the centre of the galaxy, drawing each other closer and closer until they merge.
By this idea, it was the same power of malice that emanated from the Ring that made people change when they wielded or were around it.
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