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Fwiw, the ring had an aura of evil, not just a touch-based curse of evil. Boromir was by all accounts a cool guy until being around the ring made him go temporarily fucky in the head.
So they'd need to figure out the range and adjust the rope?
"The ring has Bluetooth" - Tolkien
What if evil is like electricity and 1000 evilvolts of potential gets induced on the rope regardless.
use the elf anti (evil)static rope.
Resistors and capacitors exist for a reason. 😊
You know, I guess? Worth a shot at least.
Creates faraday cage made of pumice from Mt. Doom
Harnesses power of the one ring using a series of severed fingers connected to a palantir via two blue wizards tied up in my basement.
Uses surveillance footage to release "The Burning of The Shire"
Pretty sure using material from where it was forged would act as an amplifier, you'd be better off using the water Galadriel gave the fellowship imo
It also affects Sam when he's carrying Frodo in his back but Sam is so humble and modest that what the ring offers him he has no interest in.
it's not mentioned having any effect while he carries Frodo up the mountain, the part where he's tempted is when he's carrying it directly, while Frodo is captured by the orcs in the Tower of Cirith Ungol.
This feels like it calls back to the Hobbit in two ways:
When Gollum réalises he’s lost the ring he fears he can’t hunt anymore nor escape past the ever-guarded goblin gates, he succumbs to that fear and weeps.
When Bilbo wears it he is able to jump cleanly over Gollum’s head, finding a strength he never would have had, and so easily he never even questions it.
...and so the ring did see Sam's greed, rosebushes the size of trees....and the ring was so overcome by Sam's loyalty and pureness of heart; for a moment it too wanted a garden. Against the hatred and greed of Sauron, the impurities within the ring thought (if only for a second)...
....rosebud ;)
Should have tried potatoes
What's Taters?
my preciousssss
I don't see it as an "aura", more as an almost sentient being, that is capable of subtly pulling at people's desires - Tolkien writes that Sauron transferred his will to dominate and his malice into the ring, along with most of his power, so it makes sense to me that it would be capable of playing an active role in corrupting people, not just as some "blanket AoE curse".
For Boromir the ring acted as a psychological amplification of his own noble but desperate intentions. The Ring didnt create evil feelings out of nothing; instead, it acted as a corrupting mirror for his existing burdens.
It briefly did the same to Gandalf and Galadriel, but thankfully both were able to resist its pull - maybe carrying a ring of power themselves helped them...
Pipin..let's go, smokes
...btw, what's the radius of AOE for this ring? We talkin' maybe some of the faster fish in Golem's nook might've gotten away and become a giant squid monster in a pond outside of a magic door? Or just a radiated warmth for anti-Maiar such as Balrogs?