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"Saddam cannot resist the will of Bush..."

There are none who can:

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Psy©ho Fox wrote:
> That's because you are basing it on your knowledge of the sequels
> after it. In the trilogy Frodo has the ring for a matter of years, and
> only puts it on 4 times (3 times in the first film and 1 time in the
> last film) which prably increases it's affect.

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

Bush doesn't go invisible becuase you are missing out a very important ring wearer, Sauron himself, he had his ring on him and he did not go invisible, so it must be the same thing that is happening with Mr George "DoubleYa" Bush.

Insane Bartender wrote:
> The ring only turned people invisible anyway because Tolkien
> introduced a magic ring that turned people invisible in The Hobbit.
>
> Strange how Bilbo never felt any ill effects during the several months
> of adventure he had with the ring in that story...

That's because you are basing it on your knowledge of the sequels after it. In the trilogy Frodo has the ring for a matter of years, and only puts it on 4 times (3 times in the first film and 1 time in the last film) which prably increases it's affect.

Goatboy wrote:
> Vulcan bombers burn paper

Imperial Tie-Fighter vapourises Vulcan

Here it is

Numeoror was wrong, I ment Valar

http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/bombadil.html

P@st@ wrote:
> Yup, but who or what Tom Bombadil is is still a mystery today, as he
> didn't even become invisible.
>
> I can't remember where I read it, I think it was an essay on the
> official book site, but he is rumered to be one of the Numeror or
> something.
>
> I might be wrong with this though.

I'll try and find the link a minute...

Vulcan bombers burn paper

The sagacious one wrote:
> The ring also had no effect on Bombadil. What a queer fellow!

Yup, but who or what Tom Bombadil is is still a mystery today, as he didn't even become invisible.

I can't remember where I read it, I think it was an essay on the official book site, but he is rumered to be one of the Numeror or something.

I might be wrong with this though.

Goatboy wrote:
> *sweeps pieces from board with arm*
>
> I've had enough of games, I'm going to bomb you back into the stone
> age.

*Paper wraps stone*

Strafex wrote:
> As the story goes, Sauron was sort of dormant back then.
> By the time Frodo gets it, Sauron as regained power and strengthened
> his influence over the ring, or something...

I've already countered that point with the "Gollum" story...