At long last... I have the power to turn invisible and attract terrifying wraiths to my position

Bilbo in the books:

With that power i shall kick a midget (of my size really), steal bread from the elves tables and toss a bunch of dwarves inside barrels down the river

The ring accentuates whatever power you have most innately, hobbits are most powerful at being unnoticed, so the maxing out of this power is invisibility. If Boromir had the ring it would max out whatever the fuck hes best at, I guess a god tier swordsman or something.

Sam in the books:

"With the ring I'll have you longshanks"

female acquires the ring

her powers of nagging and mood swings are amplified 10-fold

the gods seldom take responsibility for their actions in mythology. plus most of the mess was really the fault of the noldor.

female

Galadriel*
What power would Aragorn's waifu have

If Sauron had just given it the ability to fly we wouldn't be having these problems

so if a virgin acquired the ring he would become a hypervirgin and actively repel all females in a 10 feet radius?

Wash. Your. Ass.

tfw you start reading other fantasy and realise that LOTR is a piece of dogshit

kek what fantasy makes lord of the rings seem like dogshit, anon? don't be shy

Kinda based, to be honest.

it's amazing how a frogpost is always retarded and bait-y lol. every fucking time.

Prince of Nothing

The Wizard of Oz

Fuck Ned stark

Didn’t she conjure up a tsunami to wash away the nazgul? So maximum water magic

Clearly it does other shit if they keep cutting to the ring in this scene showing its probably doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. Probably just takes time to figure out is all.

GoT as it broadens the world-building by explaining the various tax policies of the lands.

Gay ass headcanon
The ring doesn't simply make them "invisible" it draws them into a spectral plane which Sauron, the nazgul and wizards perceive naturally but is imperceptible to mortals. When Bilbao sees the wraiths as withered mummies in the ring vision he is seeing them as they really are, and this is how Gandalf also perceives them. Likewise when they put on the ring, they immediately become visible to entities who can see on this higher plane which is why the nazgul and Sauron zero in on him when he wears it.
The ring only increases ones willpower, might, charisma etc. as a sort of passive buff by being its bearer but not wearing it. This is what you mean by the ring increasing it's owners attributes. We see this when Sam briefly becomes the ring bearer:

…even though the Ring was not on him but hanging by its chain about his neck, he felt him self enlarged, as if he were robed in a huge distorted shadow of himself, a vast and ominous threat halted upon the walls of Mordor.

Wild fantasies arose in his mind; and he saw Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age, striding with a flaming sword across the darkened land, and armies flocking to his call as he marched to the overthrow of Barad-dur. And then all the clouds rolled away, and the white sun shone, and a this command the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit. He had only to put on the Ring and claim it for his own, and all this could be.

Not really.It takes time to actually master the power of the ring.Turning invisible is more of a side effect since it shifts the user closer to the spirit world.

Letter #246

The situation as between Frodo with the Ring and the Eight* might be compared to that of a small brave man armed with a devastating weapon, faced by eight savage warriors of great strength and agility armed with poisoned blades. The man's weakness was that he did not know how to use his weapon yet; and he was by temperament and training averse to violence.

LotR has NOTHING on my marvel-tier bullshit from Joe Abercrombie / Branderson

here's your (You)

Wraith attraction was only in the movies

I think that was Elrond. At least in the books.

Dumbass. It was worth a LOT of money

Bilbao

Learn how to spell if you expect people to read your fucking novel you god damn nigger ape

What about Golum? Why didn't he master the ring?

gooned all of his spiritual power away

no.

They should of just stolen some lava from Mt. Doom and brought it back with them. No need to bring the ring all the way to Saurons doorstep

using "it's uh magic" as criticism doesn't work when the world is actually full of magic and the item in question is a magic ring.

WE JUST NEED IT OK??

Joss Whedon humor, neck yourself

Why didn't they just melt Frodo's mithril tunic and make more rings?

The last time they sent all their Angelic beings to middle earth to fight evil, they nearly broke the earth. A continent broke in half and sunk out of existence.

Would the ring have honestly given Sam ultra powers of sword and spell to kick everyone's ass and grow his own Eden, or was that just the ring feeding him delusions?

Good thing Tolkien is dead because I don't think he could handle the internet

then what, punch everyone with really hard rings? his mail is just really light and strong, it's not magic.

Can't. It's not the lava, but the location that can destroy the ring. The location being a literal forge built in the depths of a volcano.

kek tolkienfags are so sensitive

s-stop making fun of my childrens book about dragons!!!!

Lava cools really fucking fast away from its heat source

or was that just the ring feeding him delusions?

yes, it was just trying to tempt/corrupt him.

What about a catapult?

The official reason the Valar didn't ride into Middle-Earth in person to beat the shit out of Sauron is that the last time they fought a God there, it devastated the surface of the planet. So they kept things low key this time round.

Unofficially the Valar were fucking assholes who basically let the Devil set up camp and turn an entire continent into Hell on Earth leaving mortals to fend for themselves.

Sauron was far, far less powerful than Morgoth and the Ring really only a threat to beings of the same power level or lower. Someone like Oromë could and should have ridden over to Barad-Dûr on his magic horse, and broken Sauron's face in two with his bare fist. That might have caused an earthquake or two in Mordor but by and large things would have been fine.

Still, what can you expect from a Christian theologian. Absolutely balderdash that falls apart under any serious rational examination.

Yes but he would have ended up killing all his friends and family due to ever growing paranoia, and he would have gone too far with GMO crops and monsanto chemicals in his quest for plant perfection

the last time they did it sank half the continent.

The rings appear to actually draw the user into some sort of ethereal plane which is a source of magical power. Frodo just had no ability to channel that power.
The invisibility is a side effect. So no, it's not enhancing the hobbit's innate stealthiness or something.
Sauron and the wraiths mostly exist on this plane of existence which is why wearing the ring draws their attention. And it's why Frodo only sees the true form of the wraiths while wearing the ring.
The Witch King was just a normal human with one of the human rings and he became so powerful he could destroy the staff of Gandalf the White. They had good reason to think the ring could grant great power. If not for the whole corruption problem.

He never knew what it actually was until he lost it and just like Bilbo he never needed it for more than what it already did.If they had known that it could do more they might have tried to unlock more of it's power,but they didn't.

at long last...I can get all my men killed and cucked by my wife!

God LOTR is such a dogshit.

y-you're mad ok, YOU'RE MAD! YOU'RE SEETHING!

you're a retard and pretending I'm mad won't change that

Yeah but it's a DPS increase so you have to use it if you want to parse

He didn't actually wear it. He just worshiped it.
He seemed to know that wearing it drew attention and that's how he was able to stay hidden for so long.

The ring has a will if its own and is trying to get back to Sauron, so it gives bearers these delusions to trick them into doing something retarded and get caught. It did the same to Boromir who imagines himself as a mighty king of Gondor who conquers Mordor when he finally loses his shit and tries to take it from Frodo

In the most reddit, simplified way possible to explain, the power of the ring is to basically magically boost your charisma/psychic attacks to insane level. You can command and rule over people easily with ti.

The caveat is that the ring asnwers to Sauron alone since it's a part of him and everyone who uses him except for Tom Bombadil will be corrupted.

This is also why regular people are tempted by it, the ring basically promises them to be the ultimate best ruler who will bring everything they desire and they dream of.

Not really since he would have never been able to master the ring or would have had the time to do any of those things even if he had.The ring showed him those visions because it wanted him to fall under its control.

Until Sauron himself came. In any case a confrontation of Frodo and Sauron would soon have taken place, if the Ring was intact. Its result was inevitable. Frodo would have been utterly overthrown: crushed to dust, or preserved in torment as a gibbering slave. Sauron would not have feared the Ring! It was his own and under his will.Even from afar he had an effect upon it, to make it work for its return to himself. In his actual presence none but very few of equal stature could have hoped to withhold it from him.Of 'mortals' no one, not even Aragorn.[...] Of the others only Gandalf might be expected to master him – being an emissary of the Powers and a creature of the same order, an immortal spirit taking a visible physical form. In the 'Mirror of Galadriel', it appears that Galadriel conceived of herself as capable of wielding the Ring and supplanting the Dark Lord. If so, so also were the other guardians of the Three, especially Elrond.But this is another matter. It was part of the essential deceit of the Ring to fill minds with imaginations of supreme power.

such a dogshit

ok rajesh.

Tolkien, in one of his letters, was asked what would happen if Sauron got the ring and Gandalf (the White) fought him. He said that it was a 50/50 chance on who would win but it wouldn't matter who won because the entire planet would be destroyed. So, the ring isn't some 'I win button' but it was effectively the end of life as you knew it if Sauron got it. Gandalf with the ring would have been unstoppable short of God himself getting involved and Gandalf knew he would start using it as good, removing orcs and 'evil' and then eventually removing people who weren't as good as other people and so on until nobody was left.

tl;dr the ring did whatever you wanted to do with it.

This isn't true either. The ring could do whatever you wanted. Turning invisible is unrelated to the power.

him except for Tom Bombadil

Except it is explained that even if Bombadil hid the ring, the world would have eventually been corrupted and destroyed by Sauron. As long as the ring remained, even Bombadil couldn't do shit to stop it.

Ring of evil tells you that your innermost desires can come to pass if you allow yourself to wield it

The temptation is so great that not even Gandalf is willing to touch it

Galadriel has deep dark fantasies that she'd become the Dark Queen and oppress everyone with her beauty that nobody could deny out of admiration and fear

How was Frodo able to withstand this? Didn't he have any personal dreams or desires for the ring to exploit? Eventually it did overcome him at the end, but all the way up until that point, he still managed to tell it no

Have you ever met an ambitious stoner?

Musk?

Elder Scrolls mogs Tolkein.

He already had the perfect life in his own eyes in the shire.

So why did the immortals of Valinor only send a few nerfed angels

The War of Wrath and its consequences were a disaster for the Children of Ilúvatar

Tolkien says in a letter that Frodo is the only one who could get the ring as far as it did. In the story, he was chosen for a reason. Even Gandalf says something along the lines of "If you can't do it, no one can".

How was Frodo able to withstand this

Because he is virtuous and good despite his sufferings. He is one of the greatest heroes of modern fiction.

Thats the ketamine

Hobbits are simple people with simple pleasures, and Frodo was the best of them. The Ring tempts people in qualities that many Hobbits just don't have.
Even Sam just decided to not bother with the ring, since working your own garden with your own hands is better than ruling over a huge one.

In that hour of trial it was his love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command. 'And anyway all these notions are only a trick, he said to himself.