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They could have fitted the whole ring / tape / mouse assembly into a small paper bag Aragorn could have kept it in his jacket and fed it little bits of lembas on the way how lovely x

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[–] [email protected] 193 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Sam did bear the weight of the ring, its hard to convey in the movie but the book makes it clear. Sam just had an iron will.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago

AND he hadn't already been carrying the ring the whole fucking way like Frodo did!

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's both an iron will and a life goal that isn't really susceptible to corruption. The ring takes the thing you want most and connects itself to that in your mind, twisting your goals to accomplish what it wants.

I'm not really certain what value being temporarily invisible has when all you want to do is garden. Hell, I don't even think a giant army or conquering the whole world would help either. Just means a more overwhelming garden, which defeats the point.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean that's the reason Hobbits in general can withstand the Ring longer than any other race of Middle Earth. They just want a quiet life without any fuss and that's pretty much the opposite of what the Ring can promise them.

Ring: I can make you rich!

Hobbit: Eh, than my cousins will pester me all day.

Ring: I can make you strong!

Hobbit: What for? I have an ox for that.

Ring: I can make you king of all!

Hobbit: That's even worse than rich!

Ring: Exasperated sigh

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ring: Fine! I can give you third breakfast!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

But I'm busy eating elevenses right now! Maybe we can have third breakfast tomorrow?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He was really just sick and fucking tired of the Lembas bread that much.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really the whole story of Sam could be boiled down to drive of a man who really wanted to get back to a life of a good women and great food.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mushrooms, really.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Humble but great

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Needed more pipeweed to get through it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Sam is the main character in the book

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So instead of sending Sam, the whole Shire should have taken the trio together and just passed the ring back and forth amongst like 10 people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All you have to do is read the first book to realize why that wouldn’t work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sir this is a ~~Wendy's~~ meme sub

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Hard to tell when its not funny.