You really got a hold on me

[CSteefel]

Originally Posted by Wayland

Would you really throw it in? I mean would you??? It's somehow beautiful and dare I say *gulp* precious! It will get you whatever you want and I mean whatever...
Don't forget - it's yours after all - by right. You've got it. It's yours, so why should you just waste it?

Heck, it's not the "One Ring to rule them ALL" for nothing.

Poor Frodo. He didn't need a 'reason' per se. The ring itself was the reason, the desire, the passion and the fate.

I can't really agree with this. Frodo just spent a month or so seeing what the Ring did to Gollum. Rationally, I think he knows it would trash him. But this would be the rational side of Frodo. The side of him shaped by the Ring appears to have taken over here.

I would subscribe to the suggestion that his mind went blank and his will finally left him at the end, as he had expended all of that in getting to Mount Doom. But perhaps this doesn't answer the question of how the Ring got to him in the first place. It seems the building effect on Frodo is extraordinarily slow, so in fact he felt the Ring had less to offer him than it did to others (Gollum, for example, was moved immediately to murder Deagol). Whatever weaknesses Frodo had, they were minor, which would explain the length of time needed to possess him completely.

On Weathertop, the suggestion to use the Ring comes from the Nazgul, a contrast with Mount Doom where no one knows he is there...