Do you consider the ring a character in LotR?

[Keneldil the Polka-dot]

Willie we are in agreement for the most part, but I differ slightly from you in how much awareness I think the Ring had.

If you say, 'then if the ring could choose and sort of had its own free will then it would have disobeyed sauron, or it could have chosen differently.' Then I say to you, it could have, but didn't.

In my humble opinion, the Ring did not have that degree of free will. It acted in the manner its creator intended it to act, and within a very limited framework. All its actions were oriented toward returning to Sauron. I don’t think it could have chosen not to do that. That’s why I say only semi-sentient. It had one goal and made no choices outside that goal.

Lo! H.I. is in disguise! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Good luck with your technical difficulties.