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Asher D wrote:
> No, of my none-geekittude.
> If that's a word.
"Geekitude". One "T".
> No, of my none-geekittude.
> If that's a word.
"Geekitude". One "T".
Whitestripes wrote:
>
>
> Of your ignorance of one of the best stories ever told?
No, of my none-geekittude.
If that's a word.
>
>
> Of your ignorance of one of the best stories ever told?
No, of my none-geekittude.
If that's a word.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Bilbo had the ring on for a couple of weeks without taking it off,
> when his party was captured by the wood elves. In this time, he should
> have gone raving mad, hacking elves and eating them raw and referring
> to both the ring and himself as "precious"...
>
> Also, in the year or so in which his adventure takes place, the 13
> dwarves accompanying him feel no obligation or even inclination to
> take the ring from Bilbo and beat him to a pulp for keeping the
> precious ring from their maddened clutches.
>
> Yet Frodo gets ill effects after a few months, Boromir is seduced by
> the ring in a matter of days, and Smeagle kills someone for it almost
> immediately. hmmmmmmmm
Sméagol, geez...
Anyway it's down to circumstance I suspect. When Bilbo found it he had no idea of it's power. It took a long time to turn him a bit mad for it (see what I did there?). However Frodo was put under immense pressure from the start, and so it didn't take long for him to do a Mariah Carey. Boromir was aware of the power it held, and he was a lot more power hungry than the Hobbits. He also wanted to save his people and thought the ring was the key to this.
By the way, I don't pretend to be any kind of expert on the matter, having only read the book once. I wasn't being serious earlier about him going invisible - I wasn't getting annoyed about LOTR being mocked or trying to make people have respect or anything, it was a jokey kind of post. That's one of the main things I hate about the internet, you can't tell tone.
(Although by the way, you do seem to be acting like some kind of expert on it yourself, and yet you can't spell the character's names. Just thought I'd point that out)
> Bilbo had the ring on for a couple of weeks without taking it off,
> when his party was captured by the wood elves. In this time, he should
> have gone raving mad, hacking elves and eating them raw and referring
> to both the ring and himself as "precious"...
>
> Also, in the year or so in which his adventure takes place, the 13
> dwarves accompanying him feel no obligation or even inclination to
> take the ring from Bilbo and beat him to a pulp for keeping the
> precious ring from their maddened clutches.
>
> Yet Frodo gets ill effects after a few months, Boromir is seduced by
> the ring in a matter of days, and Smeagle kills someone for it almost
> immediately. hmmmmmmmm
Sméagol, geez...
Anyway it's down to circumstance I suspect. When Bilbo found it he had no idea of it's power. It took a long time to turn him a bit mad for it (see what I did there?). However Frodo was put under immense pressure from the start, and so it didn't take long for him to do a Mariah Carey. Boromir was aware of the power it held, and he was a lot more power hungry than the Hobbits. He also wanted to save his people and thought the ring was the key to this.
By the way, I don't pretend to be any kind of expert on the matter, having only read the book once. I wasn't being serious earlier about him going invisible - I wasn't getting annoyed about LOTR being mocked or trying to make people have respect or anything, it was a jokey kind of post. That's one of the main things I hate about the internet, you can't tell tone.
(Although by the way, you do seem to be acting like some kind of expert on it yourself, and yet you can't spell the character's names. Just thought I'd point that out)
I just showed that picture at school today, about 10 or more people thought it was absolute class and the rest hadn't even seen LoTR's. They need to get out a bit more methinks.
Whitestripes wrote:
> Tom Bombadil is a Mari (sp?) and one of the most powerful people in
> Middle Earth, although really he is a complete mystery to us. And
> Goldberry, his wife, is a Varli (sp?) and possibly the most powerful
> person in Middle Earth.
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Lies. You mean Maia, perhaps. And he's not. It's never said what he is. Possibly a Valar, or even Illuvatar, the Creator. And Goldberry is a water spirit. Fool.
> Tom Bombadil is a Mari (sp?) and one of the most powerful people in
> Middle Earth, although really he is a complete mystery to us. And
> Goldberry, his wife, is a Varli (sp?) and possibly the most powerful
> person in Middle Earth.
--
Lies. You mean Maia, perhaps. And he's not. It's never said what he is. Possibly a Valar, or even Illuvatar, the Creator. And Goldberry is a water spirit. Fool.
Actually, hobbits can resist the Ring more because they have no ambition for power.
Dear god, I'm sad..
Dear god, I'm sad..
No, im sure he was described as 'a hobbit like creature', but no species was given.
Had Gollum been a hobbit, then Smeagol would be found in the family trees of the appendix to the books.
Had Gollum been a hobbit, then Smeagol would be found in the family trees of the appendix to the books.
Psyİho Fox wrote:
> Actually you both have it wrong. The hobbits are resiliant becuase in
> the time of the One ring being created they had no idea that there was
> a race of people called the hobbits, and the hobbits are quite
> different from Humans. If Sauron had known of their existance he would
> have adapted the ring to corrupt them as easily as humans, Dwarves or
> Elves.
> I know this becuase it is mentioned in the first book.
Wasn't Gollum originally a Hobbit?
> Actually you both have it wrong. The hobbits are resiliant becuase in
> the time of the One ring being created they had no idea that there was
> a race of people called the hobbits, and the hobbits are quite
> different from Humans. If Sauron had known of their existance he would
> have adapted the ring to corrupt them as easily as humans, Dwarves or
> Elves.
> I know this becuase it is mentioned in the first book.
Wasn't Gollum originally a Hobbit?
Psyİho Fox wrote:
> Actually you both have it wrong. The hobbits are resiliant becuase in
> the time of the One ring being created they had no idea that there was
> a race of people called the hobbits, and the hobbits are quite
> different from Humans. If Sauron had known of their existance he would
> have adapted the ring to corrupt them as easily as humans, Dwarves or
> Elves.
> I know this becuase it is mentioned in the first book.
What?!? If the ring has no effect on the hobbits, then why does it drive Bilbo and Frodo mental? They are still mortal.
> Actually you both have it wrong. The hobbits are resiliant becuase in
> the time of the One ring being created they had no idea that there was
> a race of people called the hobbits, and the hobbits are quite
> different from Humans. If Sauron had known of their existance he would
> have adapted the ring to corrupt them as easily as humans, Dwarves or
> Elves.
> I know this becuase it is mentioned in the first book.
What?!? If the ring has no effect on the hobbits, then why does it drive Bilbo and Frodo mental? They are still mortal.
cookie monster wrote:
> Hobbits are resilient to its power because of their innocence, the
> ring works buy appealing to your sense of greed, hobbits are not
> naturally greedy, so the ring takes many years to start working.
> Furthermore hobbits are not easily corrupted, they have good hearts.
Actually you both have it wrong. The hobbits are resiliant becuase in the time of the One ring being created they had no idea that there was a race of people called the hobbits, and the hobbits are quite different from Humans. If Sauron had known of their existance he would have adapted the ring to corrupt them as easily as humans, Dwarves or Elves.
I know this becuase it is mentioned in the first book.
> Hobbits are resilient to its power because of their innocence, the
> ring works buy appealing to your sense of greed, hobbits are not
> naturally greedy, so the ring takes many years to start working.
> Furthermore hobbits are not easily corrupted, they have good hearts.
Actually you both have it wrong. The hobbits are resiliant becuase in the time of the One ring being created they had no idea that there was a race of people called the hobbits, and the hobbits are quite different from Humans. If Sauron had known of their existance he would have adapted the ring to corrupt them as easily as humans, Dwarves or Elves.
I know this becuase it is mentioned in the first book.
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