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Lord Of The Rings Memes

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It's basically the same thing (lemmy.world)
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[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

He had feared that he would have barely the strength to lift his master alone, and beyond that he had expected to share in the dreadful dragging weight of the accursed Ring. But it was not so. Whether because Frodo was so worn by his long pains... or because some gift of final strength was given to him, Sam lifted Frodo with no more difficulty than if he was carrying a hobbit-child pig-a-back in some romp on the lawns or hayfields of the Shire.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

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.