Fodrim, thanks - I am glad you liked my ideas.
But I never said that Frodo had the hidden desire to become the Dark Lord from the very start. Actually I agree with Nerwen.
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But... Fordim, this is all based on your personal interpretation of how the Ring works. If it works by twisting a person's nature, rather than by simply developing it, there's no reason to think Frodo always wanted to be the Dark Lord, is there?
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Frodo had the desire to better the world, he cared for it as most good people do and more than that he was willing to act upon it. -
And it was this very desire that the Ring managed to
twist and amplify. It would have done the same with Gandalf or Galadriel far easier, because they were not so humble. In Frodo the Ring had to overcome his hobbit humbleness, persuade him that he was
the very person destined to become the Overlord. I don't think we was willing to become an EVIL overlord, even at Mt.Doom, but he saw himself as the Ringlord all the same.
In the letter 246 Tolkien describes what would have happened if Gollum hadn't taken the Ring from Frodo and the Nazgul had time to arrive to Mount Doom:
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I think [the Nazgul] would have shown 'servility'. They would have greeted Frodo as 'Lord'. With fair speeches they would have induced him to leave the Sammath Naur – for instance 'to look upon his new kingdom, and behold afar with his new sight the abode of power that he must now claim and turn to his own purposes'. Once outside the chamber while he was gazing some of them would have destroyed the entrance. Frodo would by then probably have been already too enmeshed in great plans of reformed rule – like but far greater and wider than the vision that tempted Sam (III 177)5 – to heed this.
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Note Frodo's attitude: he was ready to listen to the Nazgul, to survey his new Kingdom, he was already enmeshed in Napoleonic plans...
Not a thought spared for the Shire, or for the West, or for his friends...