[ SECRET POST #2385 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2385 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, no. Not really. My inner Tolkien nerd is about to come out, sorry. Up to that point, the only other person who had had the ring for an extended period of time was Isildur who took it directly from the hand of Sauron. When confronted with the chance to destroy it, Isildur decided he wanted to keep it instead. I wouldn't call that resisting it's influence. Anybody else who had been in close proximity of the ring for the time Isildur had it knew better because they knew what it was. He also only had it a couple of years before he was killed and the ring was lost in Anduin.

A couple thousand years later when Deagol and Smeagol found the ring, they had no idea what it was or any of it's properties or history, they only each felt a desire for it upon touching it. Smeagol had it a few hundred years before Bilbo came along, waaaay longer than any other mortal who came to possess the ring afterwards. And of course after that length of time, Gollum (at this point) would be completely addicted, obsessed and enamored with it. Couple the influence of the ring itself with the fact that it was all he had and, yeah. It's pretty damn tragic. Even Frodo, who had done so well to journey with it all the way across Middle-earth, failed to destroy it in the end. The only character who was able to fully resist the ring's draw was Tom Bombadil.

Now. Oh, wait. This post was about Harry Potter, huh. Whoops.

[fenm]

Ok, see, I was thinking of the fact that Smeagol killed his cousin to get it pretty much right after finding it, while Bilbo was, with some effort, able to leave it behind, etc. But you're right about them knowing what it was, so...