What would the ring tempt you with?

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Originally Posted by skip spence

Okay, Tiger's seen better days, maybe, but surely you can see how his lifestyle would be tempting to some, if not wise and sustainable?

Tempting to some, I guess (I'd leave the golf ). My point is that money, fame, prestige, supermodel wife doesn't always equate with a viable life. So if it *can* happen (as shown by Tiger), with the One Ring as a jealous evil player in one's life, the scales may be tipped so that it is the more probable outcome.

Yeah, I think the idea of the One Ring is absolute power and control, and how it (to rule others) corrupts, regardless of the wielder's intentions. With the ring on your finger you have the means to enforce your own world-view on others.

Force is the word. For every force there is an equal and opposite force (not sure how that comes into play).

Few people in that situation would let the opportunity pass by, because they would fail to see the "bad" in it. Needless to say, the idea of throwing the Ring into the fires it was made from wouldn't have occurred to any leaders of the West or East in the real world, something Tolkien was well aware of.

Much agreed.

Speaking of the supermodel wife, I think the Ring would give you the means to find out what she is doing and thinking at all times. And with the opportunity to listen in, who can resist?

You must not be married.

"Honey, are you listening to me?!?"

"Uh-huh."

"Well then, what did I just say?"

"Uhh..." runs for the man cave.

You mean unhappy? I never got the feeling that Turin was chasing empty pleasures. He seems to have been burdened down with conflicting, high ideals rather...

What I meant is that he used force at times to get his way, and was a bold man as well, and yet his life turned to grief. Sure, Morgoth had it in for him - bet the One Ring would act the same.

Note that we seem to be discussing two different sets of Rings as one: The One Ring, which was always trying to get back to Sauron (and so would jump to a more useful vehicle) and one of the Nine, which were made to 'stick' to the person to whom it was given in order to enslave the wearer.