The Forgotten Ringbearer - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Kalimac · 12-05-2002, 11:58 PM

Small and mean, hmmm...maybe like the Sackville-Bagginses, then? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. It still sounds to me like it would have taken longer for the Ring to overcome him (though as long as it was taking on Bilbo, before he gave it up). And since Deagol didn't start his possession of the Ring off with a murder, it would have taken a while for him to be thoroughly overcome. Though that might have been fatal to ME in the end, since he wouldn't have been as intense and secretive about it as Gollum was - in fact, if he was anything like the S-Bs, he might have enjoyed flaunting the Ring and mentioning that "YOU can't touch it" to Gollum. So word of the Ring would have spread pretty quickly and unless Deagol did a very good job of slipping away later, probably would have been much more easily traced (since Sauron would know that it had been found in the Gladden Fields at any rate, and also by whom).

12-05-2002, 11:58 PM	#7
Kalimac Candle of the Marshes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Flyover Country Posts: 780	Small and mean, hmmm...maybe like the Sackville-Bagginses, then? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. It still sounds to me like it would have taken longer for the Ring to overcome him (though as long as it was taking on Bilbo, before he gave it up). And since Deagol didn't start his possession of the Ring off with a murder, it would have taken a while for him to be thoroughly overcome. Though that might have been fatal to ME in the end, since he wouldn't have been as intense and secretive about it as Gollum was - in fact, if he was anything like the S-Bs, he might have enjoyed flaunting the Ring and mentioning that "YOU can't touch it" to Gollum. So word of the Ring would have spread pretty quickly and unless Deagol did a very good job of slipping away later, probably would have been much more easily traced (since Sauron would know that it had been found in the Gladden Fields at any rate, and also by whom). __________________ Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.