Women vs. desire of the ring

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Originally Posted by Galadriel55

It is true that the ore power you already have, the more dangerous the Ring is. However, someone with power who doesn't want to do anything with it would be affected differently than someone who is trying to achieve a desparate goal. The latter one would likely be more easily tempted by the Ring, don't you think?

It seems to me that the greater the individual's power, the more the Ring wants them, because such persons are often in positions of responsibility or authority that could provide it with many more inroads to corrupt them. The Ring wants to get back to its master, and in being used sends up flares, so to speak, to tell Sauron where it is. The more powerful the user, the more it can be used to do things that would really get noticed.

But I think that I would not say that ambition is a key; rather, I would call it need. Granted, to ambitious persons, anything that will further their ambition can be perceived as a need. But I think that hobbits like Bilbo and Frodo and Sam were able to resist for as long as they did because they had little in the way of the kinds of need that Elrond and Gandalf and even Boromir had, due to their greater responsibilities. Eówyn, IMHO, is something of an unusual case, because she had already been manipulated by Saruman through Wormtongue, into a state of despair in which she believed that she was in a cage and could only regain her honor and freedom through battle. Even so, I think it likely that the Ring would have gotten to her less through temptations of herself as a war hero and more through making her believe it would give her the power to heal Théoden and restore The House of Eorl to dignity and glory. But alas, as Gandalf said, it wouldn't stop there.

Just my nickel's worth.