Let's take this baby for a spin, and see what it can do!

[Birdland]

I just typed the whole thing out, and then lost it, so let's just say check "The Council of Elrond", page 281, paragraph three. Elrond state that if the Wise were to take the Ring, they would defeat Sauron, but become in time exactly like him.

There was no need to "drag" Frodo to the Barad-dur because the Nazgul would be there shortly and because they were already at a place where Sauron's power was greatest.

Well, if Sauron wasn't worried, he should have been. The Ring was not able to protect itself from destruction, and Sauron was not able to retrieve it. All he could do sit on the edge of his throne and hope his lackys got there in time to recapture it.

And while we're at it; let's harken back to The Hobbit. If the Ring was trying to escape from Gollum, why did it just lie there and let a schmuck like Bilbo pick it up? If it had been my Ring, I would have "programmed" it to roll across Middle-earth right on back to Mordor.

But noooo...instead it gets passed around by a bunch of Hobbits that treat like it's a Cracker Jack toy, while everyone around them wonders if they had plastic surgery.

Some magic ring. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[ February 08, 2003: Message edited by: Birdland ]