Didn't Galadriel, herself, describe what would happen if she took the ring?
From
The Fellowship of the Ring, page 381:
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"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountains! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"
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The last line, to me, is particularly chilling. I can think of no modern earthly equivalent to such a ruler: one who sits so far above his or subjects, radiating some kind of super-terrestrial ambience; a figure that men love out of slavish, awestruck devotion; one whose blessing men crave instead of being pleased by it while they cringe and grovel in terror from his or her displeasure.
Perhaps someone like Kim Jong Il was such a figure for the North Koreans. He certainly had a lot of contrived mysticism surrounding his birth, rule, and accomplishments which they seemed to have
thought was true. Looking at the recent news footage of the recent hysterical lunacy surrounding his death, I get the impression of slavish devotion, as well.