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Originally Posted by Hakon
The Might then does a good job of summing it and both the way The Might sums it up and the actual quote make me think that the man might slowly begin to turn into a wraith. The thing is they would not turn into a wraith instantly and most likely the ring would have been destroyed long before they were even close to becoming a full wraith.
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I'm thinking along the lines of
Gordis above- that it was not the Rings themselves that caused the wraith-state, but the lies and deceits of Sauron which he induced by the power of the One.
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They could walk, if they would, unseen by all eyes in this world beneath the sun, and they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men; but too often they beheld only the phantoms and delusions of Sauron.
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Silm Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age (emphasis added)