would you destroy the one ring?

Elessar the Elfstone · 04-26-2003, 10:35 AM

I've just been wondering would you destroy the one ring if given it? I know I'll get hundreds of people saying yes I would but would they? would anyone today have the strengh of will to destroy it? for remember the one ring in one persons eyes(Gollum's) is a great thing that makes you live forever and turn invisible when you want to, or in another persons point of view(gandalf's) the ring is a extremally evil object that corrupts and destroy's anyone who wears it. or another point of view (Boromir's) that it is a gift that if used could coud destroy all evil.
so I ask again would you cast the one ring into the fire and destroy it?

Elvellyn · 04-26-2003, 11:57 AM

Yupers. At least I would hope so. I don't know if anyone can really answer that question unless they have been in that situation. I'm sure Frodo didn't think he would have any problems destroying the ring, but look what happened to him.

gimli7410 · 04-26-2003, 12:06 PM

i would try but it would probably corrupt me. so i wouldn't be able to.

***Jonathan*** · 04-26-2003, 01:20 PM

I would become more corrupt than any of the Ringwraiths, if I was to try to destroy the Ring. It would've undoubtedly poison my mind and I wouldn't be able to destroy it at all.

Lalaith · 04-26-2003, 01:33 PM

I'd love to say YES. But I can't tell it. It's easy to deny evil if you are not tempted. But I think I would. But I would have problems with the journey. That would be physically too difficult for me.

Blackboar · 04-26-2003, 01:53 PM

I would try, but after the first two sconds I would see its beauty and just put it on! I admit I'd probably never be able to destroy the Ring.
Im too addicted to my replica, never mind the real one. I'd never be able too!

Dreran the Green · 04-26-2003, 03:12 PM

Heh heh heh...you mean I actually get the real one?

Hmmm....I guess that answers that question

Elf Girl · 04-26-2003, 03:14 PM

I would make every effort, but I don't think I have the strength of will.

Fimbrethil · 04-26-2003, 05:52 PM

I was thinking yes then I thought ah heck be honest! No even if I wanted to I don't think I could...I don't even have power to resist candy so what makes you think I could resist an evil ring! Besides I'd have to much fun puling pranks on people!

durin's bane · 04-28-2003, 06:31 PM

I don't really know. I probably could, because I'm not easily tempted by things. But we're talking here a powerful, evil ring, so I still could destroy it, but maybe meet the same fate as Frodo in the end.

But I don't think anyone would let me have the Ring in the first place, so I don't really know the truth.

Dreran the Green · 04-28-2003, 06:35 PM

I don't really think I could, but hey! I could have a lot of fun organizing a Fellowship to help me with my quest! Hmmm....maybe I should do that with a replica of the one...

Bombadillo · 04-28-2003, 09:00 PM

Well I'm human, so I would have to try extremely hard to resist its temptation. But yes I would try my hardest to have it destroyed, if I knew its danger. I would have gone about it differently too. I'd pick up maybe one or two friends, and hope I found a warrior or twon on the way, and once we're set just charge into Mordor and bolt for Mount Doom.

Agburanar · 04-29-2003, 08:00 AM

No chance!!!

Grovel at my feet all ye unworthy.......

Unto a certain American president be death.... and unto Peter Jackson a jolly long imprisonment in my new treacle mines of Moria!

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-29-2003, 09:27 AM

I don't know. I hope so. But I think Elvellyn said it best.

Psycho Kitty · 04-29-2003, 11:52 AM

I would keep it. I wouldnt even dream about destroying it. Then I could become a nasty lonley creature like gollum and live far from people and it would give me everything I wanted like the perfect drug. What more could you ask for. I would be the most powerful nodody on earth. <evil laugh>

congressmn · 04-29-2003, 12:04 PM

but for that u have to have the strenght to wield the ring, otherwise u will end up in a secong gollum .<very evil laugh>

Psycho Kitty · 04-29-2003, 12:13 PM

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Originally posted by congressmn
but for that u have to have the strenght to wield the ring, otherwise u will end up in a secong gollum .<very evil laugh>

yup thats all i want. perfect isolation. i would let it turn my brain to jelly and live happily in my filth for ever and ever. dumb and unbothered and care free. and all the while sitting on the most powerful weapon on the planet. <SCREAMING WICKED WITCH EVIL LAUGH>

congressmn · 04-29-2003, 02:25 PM

on destrying the ring. i wanna destroy a lot of things. i'll use the ring, then destroy it, even myself. wonder wht it feels like self -destruction u know

Dreran the Green · 04-29-2003, 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by Psycho Kitty
yup thats all i want. perfect isolation. i would let it turn my brain to jelly and live happily in my filth for ever and ever. dumb and unbothered and care free. and all the while sitting on the most powerful weapon on the planet. <SCREAMING WICKED WITCH EVIL LAUGH>

Well, Ok, I can maybe see that...maybe......
But then what if a Baggins comes along and steals your precioussss and then you go looking for it and along the way stumble into Mordor and get tortured by a bunch of evil orcs and things and then end up the guide to two hobbits back to Mordor on a horrible quest to destroy the one thing you hold so dear....*Dreran realizes at this point how strange it is that she has already thought all this out, and leaves*

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-29-2003, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Psycho Kitty
yup thats all i want. perfect isolation. i would let it turn my brain to jelly and live happily in my filth for ever and ever. dumb and unbothered and care free. and all the while sitting on the most powerful weapon on the planet. <SCREAMING WICKED WITCH EVIL LAUGH>

Unbothered? Unlikely. Sauron would become aware of you relatively quickly, and would send his Nazgul to "bother" you.

04-26-2003, 10:35 AM	#1
Elessar the Elfstone Enting Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Usually located Bree Inn of the prancing pony Posts: 59	would you destroy the one ring? I've just been wondering would you destroy the one ring if given it? I know I'll get hundreds of people saying yes I would but would they? would anyone today have the strengh of will to destroy it? for remember the one ring in one persons eyes(Gollum's) is a great thing that makes you live forever and turn invisible when you want to, or in another persons point of view(gandalf's) the ring is a extremally evil object that corrupts and destroy's anyone who wears it. or another point of view (Boromir's) that it is a gift that if used could coud destroy all evil. so I ask again would you cast the one ring into the fire and destroy it?

04-26-2003, 11:57 AM	#2
Elvellyn The Redneck Elf Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: In a house Posts: 539	Yupers. At least I would hope so. I don't know if anyone can really answer that question unless they have been in that situation. I'm sure Frodo didn't think he would have any problems destroying the ring, but look what happened to him. __________________ Oliphants make great pets.

04-26-2003, 12:06 PM	#3
gimli7410 the dumb stoner canuck Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: canada Posts: 2,542	i would try but it would probably corrupt me. so i wouldn't be able to. __________________ -"Down with the system"-Serj tankian of system of a down -“Humans have been on the earth for millions of years, yet we don’t believe man began thinking until he started building walls. And what good have these walls ever done us?”-Serj tankian of soad -"stupid people do stupid things"-Serj tankian of soad "Trying is the first step to failure" Homer Simpson "It isn't going to be easy"-jerseydevil "only the good die young" I AM CANADIAN If the people lead, the leaders will follow.

04-26-2003, 01:20 PM	#4
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	I would become more corrupt than any of the Ringwraiths, if I was to try to destroy the Ring. It would've undoubtedly poison my mind and I wouldn't be able to destroy it at all. __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

04-26-2003, 01:33 PM	#5
Lalaith The Elvish Temptress Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 3,055	I'd love to say YES. But I can't tell it. It's easy to deny evil if you are not tempted. But I think I would. But I would have problems with the journey. That would be physically too difficult for me. __________________ What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead.

04-26-2003, 01:53 PM	#6
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	I would try, but after the first two sconds I would see its beauty and just put it on! I admit I'd probably never be able to destroy the Ring. Im too addicted to my replica, never mind the real one. I'd never be able too!

04-26-2003, 03:12 PM	#7
Dreran the Green Lady of Legends Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Missing. Reward if found. Posts: 1,083	Heh heh heh...you mean I actually get the real one? Hmmm....I guess that answers that question __________________ The end justifies the means, thought Aziraphale. And the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.* *This is not actually true. The road to Hell is paved with frozen door to door salesmen. On weekends many of the younger demons go ice-skating down it. ~Good Omens

04-26-2003, 03:14 PM	#8
Elf Girl Lurker Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 3,419	I would make every effort, but I don't think I have the strength of will. __________________ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...

04-26-2003, 05:52 PM	#9
Fimbrethil My microwave speaks to me Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Having conversations with my major household appliances. Posts: 937	I was thinking yes then I thought ah heck be honest! No even if I wanted to I don't think I could...I don't even have power to resist candy so what makes you think I could resist an evil ring! Besides I'd have to much fun puling pranks on people! __________________ Bah, Bah black sheep have oyu any wool? Yes sir, yes sir. Three bags full! One for the master, one for the dame, one for the little boy who lives down the lane! Bah, bah black sheep have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir. Three bags full. I'll be gone for a while. But never fear! "I shall return anon!"

04-28-2003, 06:31 PM	#10
durin's bane Lady of Westernesse Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Canada (Help! Our parliament building is melting!) Posts: 761	I don't really know. I probably could, because I'm not easily tempted by things. But we're talking here a powerful, evil ring, so I still could destroy it, but maybe meet the same fate as Frodo in the end. But I don't think anyone would let me have the Ring in the first place, so I don't really know the truth. __________________ Yada, yada, yada

04-28-2003, 06:35 PM	#11
Dreran the Green Lady of Legends Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Missing. Reward if found. Posts: 1,083	I don't really think I could, but hey! I could have a lot of fun organizing a Fellowship to help me with my quest! Hmmm....maybe I should do that with a replica of the one... __________________ The end justifies the means, thought Aziraphale. And the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.* *This is not actually true. The road to Hell is paved with frozen door to door salesmen. On weekends many of the younger demons go ice-skating down it. ~Good Omens

04-28-2003, 09:00 PM	#12
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	Well I'm human, so I would have to try extremely hard to resist its temptation. But yes I would try my hardest to have it destroyed, if I knew its danger. I would have gone about it differently too. I'd pick up maybe one or two friends, and hope I found a warrior or twon on the way, and once we're set just charge into Mordor and bolt for Mount Doom. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

04-29-2003, 08:00 AM	#13
Agburanar Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dorset Posts: 608	No chance!!! Grovel at my feet all ye unworthy....... Unto a certain American president be death.... and unto Peter Jackson a jolly long imprisonment in my new treacle mines of Moria! __________________ I would wish, were it to any avail, that the LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS had never been wrought. ROLLING STOCK, WE'RE ROLLING STOCK!!

04-29-2003, 09:27 AM	#14
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I don't know. I hope so. But I think Elvellyn said it best. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-29-2003, 11:52 AM	#15
Psycho Kitty Enting Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 66	I would keep it. I wouldnt even dream about destroying it. Then I could become a nasty lonley creature like gollum and live far from people and it would give me everything I wanted like the perfect drug. What more could you ask for. I would be the most powerful nodody on earth. <evil laugh> __________________ Its a common occurance. We all come to terms with it at some time or another. That beautiful feeling of being left behind. With the Golden promise touching anothers horizion. Being left sitting still and waiting for nothing. Unable to move until it comes.

04-29-2003, 12:04 PM	#16
congressmn Incharge: neighbourhood security Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: on my 499th post Posts: 481	but for that u have to have the strenght to wield the ring, otherwise u will end up in a secong gollum .<very evil laugh> __________________ i am nothing. i am a cold stone, which deceives with the light it reflects, giving illusions of warmth.

04-29-2003, 02:25 PM	#18
congressmn Incharge: neighbourhood security Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: on my 499th post Posts: 481	on destrying the ring. i wanna destroy a lot of things. i'll use the ring, then destroy it, even myself. wonder wht it feels like self -destruction u know __________________ i am nothing. i am a cold stone, which deceives with the light it reflects, giving illusions of warmth.

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