No reason for the “sorry.” A very well thought out and articulated examination of the subject. Great job. Say? I found this shiny bobble by the side of the road. I have no use for it. Want it?
This is why the Ring and Sauron are so magnificent, they are the representation of the inevitability of corruption and internal decay. Nothing lasts forever or is wholly good. Eventually the end justifying the means enslaves anyone.
@@DarthGandalfYT and it's kinda the reason why mortality is a gift. Because you die, and in a sense your life is renew thru the next generation, and so you don't leave long enough to be defeated by darkness
This hands down is one of the best LOTR videos on the ring I’ve seen. I’ve always academically understood the ring and what it does but this explanations really makes me understand it. I completely get why anyone would struggle to be rid of it or why hobbits are best resistant to it. If you don’t care about more abilities or people listening to you then it’s not a draw. For humans though….man the boost in skills and people listening to you more….without knowing it’s the one ring I’d be tempted and corrupted I’m sad to say.
There is a special honestness about your videos. Here, I enjoyed mix of subjectivity, expertise and your ability to extrapolate the source material in a tasteful and thought provoking way.
I’ve often thought to myself how I would deal with the ring (I say deal when I mean try and manage/survive) as long as possible, provided I knew what the ring was when I had it. I’ve imagined myself in Frodo‘s shoes/barefoot on the way to Mordor to destroy the ring, but know it’s taking control of me all the time. So I would often try and imagine ways I could perhaps try and stem its power or maybe limit it. And slow it down. Well imagine that at that point I had never once put it on or at least very rarely and for some time, that would Greatly increase the time of free well from it’s influence, but its main power is almost hypnotic as well as mental, simply staring at it, thinking of it, and worrying over it is the first real frightening sign of its influence taking control, so I thought to myself what if I kept it in possession, but at the same time sealed it and covered it up so it was impossible to truly use it. My thought was perhaps put the ring in a sort of hot liquid metal like a cover and then thread a string or chain through a hole to make it appear nothing more than a lump of metal hanging around my neck, by doing that you know completely it’s still with you and also it’s impossible for you to wear it and to Stare at it. Allowing it only to have its very basic subtle influences over you, but using these countermeasures it might slow it down by maybe two thirds I’m wondering is that why sam was so loyal to Frodo, because he possessed such leadership because of the ring? Personally I’m inclined to think it generally was because Sam was simply so loyal, even before the events of Lord of the rings before Bilbo left Sam was still very close to Frodo.
The sad fact is, like cancer, you can only fight it so long before it wins. Even Frodo fell at the end. So what hope have any of us? For me I would want ot make things BETTER. All these cars? The layout of where i live giving no room for green spaces or ways to get around without a vehicle?' Yes but it would go 'and then what? The world you're on is being choked to deat hby hateful old men who won't live long enough to suffer. What about your niece who will inheret this mess? What about the promises you recieved, implied by all the talk of bettering the world that were broken? You don't want to leave her with a broken world do you?' And that's how it would get me....
What they should have done is tie the one ring to the body of a mouse with a mithril jacket and keep the mouse in a covered locked box. Don’t make the mouse “wear” the ring because the Nazgûl could find it easily. Covered box means you can’t look at it while the ring only corrupts the mouse. Clearly the corruption effects do not transmit through beings (e.g. Sam carried Frodo or Frodo was in vicinity of it for a long period of time w/ Bilbo) so that would be a safe means of transport.
Great video. New here and loving the channel! Thumbnail brought me back to getting the crap scared out of me as a kid watching these movies with my mom, thanks for the throwback!
"I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs..." So say I as well.
Probably head straight for Mordor, not to destroy it But to hand it over back to its master. The only issue would be avoiding Saruman's Uruk-Hai depending on where I'd find the ring
Im a Lord of the rings fan, if i find a golden and addictive ring, it will take me 5 seconds to drop it on the sea like a Silmarill or something... If my will power lasts enough to do that...
I would totally resist it. Though its powers might prove useful....it is a attractive thing is it not? I can weild it, i can control it...the price is not that high....it is a precious thing not to be wasted, no it is my precious...
See i wonder what would have happened if hypothetically someone had wore the ring or had the ring in their possesion for a long period of time a couple of years say and the ring had made them do some bad things after corupting their goals and then lost it but never found the ring again and then when its destoryed, i wonder what would have happened then, would they have gone mad, been left to clearly see what they had done or would it have killed them like a psychic back lash.
I know this is an old video but as somone who has a pretty strong will and is very stubborn like the Dwarves are it's terrifying to know the One Ring would basically instantly snare any of the Free People Dwarves Men and Elves alike. Except Tom Bombadil 😅🤣😂
Sounds a lot like the Paradox of Evil that Lelouch talked about in Code Geass. Suppose there's an evil you cannot defeat by just means. Do you commit evil to destroy it? Or do you remain just and righteous and allow it to persist? In either case evil remains.
From the desire to do good evil is born and from evil good may sprout. There is light in darkness and darkness in the light. Power is not wholy evil, it is just a means to an end. And when no adversaty the easier to fall into the pits of Melkor.
Honestly, it just kinda seems like living in the modern age is like having the One Ring. Think about it... Via the power of the internet you can become better at certain things easier, and social media can make you more charismatic and coercive.. ambition of any kind, it's there trying to get you to 'rise and grind' all the time. Get money...even the mostly invisible thing also fits my admittedly silly analogy here... Seriously though, listen to this video but think about your phone instead and it's eerily accurate
I think some do not realize it corrupts because the ring is not jsut some object. The books say I believe that Sauron put into it his cruelty his Malice and will to dominate all life. And it WANTs to return to Sauron. Above all else it will betray you the moment it has the chance to get back to its one master. Aragorn says it best. The ring has one master Sauron. Nobody else.
It will then work its way into the earth and twist the planet to its own thought, before blowing it up and floating in space waiting for Sauron to find it
Sounds like trying to change things becomes this Catch-22 problem. You can't change anything without power, but if you acquire power you risk losing sight of the changes you wish to implement. So is the status-quo "good" or "better"? Should we be content with the way things currently are and not push for change or reform? I'm definitely missing something here.
You got a bit confused between the movies and the books. In the books, the Ring wearer's surroundings only become blurred and shadowy if they wear the Ring near Mount Doom (so in Mordor or Cirith Ungol). If they are far away from Mordor, their surroundings don't change. The movies took creative and dramatic liberties. In the text, Frodo's surroundings did not change on Weathertop, only the Nazgul changed. In the movies they changed this scene to make it as dramatic as possible. With other details too e.g. Aragorn actually setting the Nazgul on fire.
HAHA Last time I found a non-descript gold ring was in Paris and some gypsy was running some weird scam where it was their ring and I was supposed to pay them money for finding it or something. Made no sense. I told them to go away.
That "corrupted solution to world hunger" scenario actually happened, genetically modified crops and other modern agricultural inventions were spread throughout the world and now the least organized and most unstable parts of the world are also the most overpopulated.
I got a question. Why did Morgoth waste his divine power away into corrupting the realm of Arda and imbue so much of his personal strength that made him the mightiest valar into servants that would end up dying anyway during his wars? It seems very counterintuitive to his efforts to controlling Arda because by the end of war for sake of the Elves he wasted so much of his divine might that he couldn't even bare to fight the Valar one on one anymore and it only got worse at the end of the war of wrath where even Tolkien stated that Sauron at his strongest was greater then Morgoth at his weakest.
Why? That's a good question. I'd say the answer is that Morgoth wasn't a rational thinker. He was so determined to destroy or corrupt everything not of his make that nothing else mattered to him. Pouring his power into his wicked creations was just a means to an end, and you have to remember that it did work. He did achieve mastery of Middle-earth, but he never expected the Valar to attack him again. Even then, his creations (like the winged dragons) gave him a slim chance of victory that he otherwise probably wouldn't have had. Yes, his person was weaker, but the power he accumulated matched the armies of Valinor. And besides, Tulkas kicked his ass. If it came down to it, he'd have a better chance of keeping Tulkas away with his armies than he would of defeating him face-to-face.
@@DarthGandalfYT Well sounds like Morgoth was a bit of a idiot when it comes to strategy. The Biblical Satan is smarter then him in that category. You could probably make a video about how much of a shortsighted moron he was. If he really wanted to rule the world properly he should kept his power to himself and either *A:* rule from the shadows, or *B:* conquer the world yourself don't just sit on your black iron throne for a few centuries when there is a war out there that needs decisive calecutive managing. If anything Morgoth should of done more to regain his orginal power like Sauron did to a extent.
Well, it's said that one of the ways the One Ring could be unmade is if a greater power destroyed it. Presumably, Tolkien meant the Valar when he wrote this line. Considering balefire erases things from existence, it could be considered a greater power. I would say yes.
If i found the one ring i would get bored of it. It simply lacks the power i desire and i care nothing for things I don't control. Its constant temptation would just annoy me.
I'm sorry about the thumbnail. I'm sorry if this video made you depressed.
"I'm sorry for everything, my boy..."
No reason for the “sorry.” A very well thought out and articulated examination of the subject. Great job.
Say? I found this shiny bobble by the side of the road. I have no use for it. Want it?
R u Canadian?
I cannot deny my heart has greatly desired this...
This is why the Ring and Sauron are so magnificent, they are the representation of the inevitability of corruption and internal decay. Nothing lasts forever or is wholly good. Eventually the end justifying the means enslaves anyone.
Yep, it's the perfect example of the "long defeat", an idea that's central to Tolkien's universe.
@@DarthGandalfYT and it's kinda the reason why mortality is a gift. Because you die, and in a sense your life is renew thru the next generation, and so you don't leave long enough to be defeated by darkness
Hey, that was probably one of your best videos, I like a lot its more philosophical tone. Great job
I definitely had mixed feelings about it when I put it together so I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I would fall to the Ring super easily and that scares me.
This hands down is one of the best LOTR videos on the ring I’ve seen. I’ve always academically understood the ring and what it does but this explanations really makes me understand it. I completely get why anyone would struggle to be rid of it or why hobbits are best resistant to it. If you don’t care about more abilities or people listening to you then it’s not a draw. For humans though….man the boost in skills and people listening to you more….without knowing it’s the one ring I’d be tempted and corrupted I’m sad to say.
Wouldn't happen to me, I'm built different
I was immediately attracted to it when I learned its invisibility power
There is a special honestness about your videos. Here, I enjoyed mix of subjectivity, expertise and your ability to extrapolate the source material in a tasteful and thought provoking way.
The old Darth Gandalf was truly something else.
I like to imagine it would be similar to having that "limitless pill" as long as one held onto the ring.
Sounds like today's modern dictators.
just commenting to boost the channel's engagement levels, don't mind me
"You feel like you have a bizarre attraction to it (hopefully not in a sexual way)."
... Don't give them ideas..
Darth Gandalf: "What if you found the One Ring?"
Me: I'd head over to 24-Hour Fitness, go invisible and spend some quality time in the Women's Shower.
I feel like the comment fits the name.
I've been hooked on your videos ever since the "nan dangortheb" video.
Your my favorite LOTR youtuber.
Thanks mate, much appreciated.
I’ve often thought to myself how I would deal with the ring (I say deal when I mean try and manage/survive) as long as possible, provided I knew what the ring was when I had it. I’ve imagined myself in Frodo‘s shoes/barefoot on the way to Mordor to destroy the ring, but know it’s taking control of me all the time. So I would often try and imagine ways I could perhaps try and stem its power or maybe limit it. And slow it down.
Well imagine that at that point I had never once put it on or at least very rarely and for some time, that would Greatly increase the time of free well from it’s influence, but its main power is almost hypnotic as well as mental, simply staring at it, thinking of it, and worrying over it is the first real frightening sign of its influence taking control, so I thought to myself what if I kept it in possession, but at the same time sealed it and covered it up so it was impossible to truly use it. My thought was perhaps put the ring in a sort of hot liquid metal like a cover and then thread a string or chain through a hole to make it appear nothing more than a lump of metal hanging around my neck, by doing that you know completely it’s still with you and also it’s impossible for you to wear it and to Stare at it. Allowing it only to have its very basic subtle influences over you, but using these countermeasures it might slow it down by maybe two thirds
I’m wondering is that why sam was so loyal to Frodo, because he possessed such leadership because of the ring? Personally I’m inclined to think it generally was because Sam was simply so loyal, even before the events of Lord of the rings before Bilbo left Sam was still very close to Frodo.
The sad fact is, like cancer, you can only fight it so long before it wins. Even Frodo fell at the end.
So what hope have any of us?
For me I would want ot make things BETTER. All these cars? The layout of where i live giving no room for green spaces or ways to get around without a vehicle?' Yes but it would go 'and then what? The world you're on is being choked to deat hby hateful old men who won't live long enough to suffer. What about your niece who will inheret this mess? What about the promises you recieved, implied by all the talk of bettering the world that were broken? You don't want to leave her with a broken world do you?'
And that's how it would get me....
Finish my morning coke then head to Mordor to destroy the demigod that lives there and then rule the world correctly this time
Why use the One Ring for that when you could use it to score more coke for less money?
Hands down the best explanation I’ve ever heard!
I've wondered if it made humans invisible. it makes you 'more' and hobbits were always able to disappear.
I would use the ring to exact terrible vengeance upon the world. 😆
I would have a bizzare attraction to it. I won't be more specific.
I got goosebumps listening to this.
Amazing and unrelenting. Congrats!
You're my favourite lotr content creator.
Thank you, means a lot to me.
Same here
@@DarthGandalfYT the first lotr content creator whose vids I feel a sick need to watch :D ugh ... onto the next video. haha
What they should have done is tie the one ring to the body of a mouse with a mithril jacket and keep the mouse in a covered locked box. Don’t make the mouse “wear” the ring because the Nazgûl could find it easily. Covered box means you can’t look at it while the ring only corrupts the mouse. Clearly the corruption effects do not transmit through beings (e.g. Sam carried Frodo or Frodo was in vicinity of it for a long period of time w/ Bilbo) so that would be a safe means of transport.
Trebuchet it into mordor you say?
I'm not sure what'll happen if I found the ring, but I'm assuming it'll involve the RTX 4090 TI
"hopefully not in a sexual way"
Remembers the Isildur scene in the first movie where the Ring suddenly shrinks... 😲
This sounds like heroin addiction Smh 🤦♂️ extreme ecstasy but even more extreme withdrawal
Great video. New here and loving the channel! Thumbnail brought me back to getting the crap scared out of me as a kid watching these movies with my mom, thanks for the throwback!
One of your best videos imo!
Idk i always check my pockets if i lost something no matter what it is.
This channel is so underrated!
Might be your best yet 👌👏
I am constantly impressed by the quality of this channel. keep up the good work
"I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs..." So say I as well.
(but I might alert Gandalf, like a good wizard's pupil)
So, as a writer, I'd be able to procrastinate better. Sounds like a win.
Probably head straight for Mordor, not to destroy it
But to hand it over back to its master. The only issue would be avoiding Saruman's Uruk-Hai depending on where I'd find the ring
Im a Lord of the rings fan, if i find a golden and addictive ring, it will take me 5 seconds to drop it on the sea like a Silmarill or something... If my will power lasts enough to do that...
Great video!!
Wonder why Tolkien chose a ring as the object. Male jewelry is a treacherous slippery slope it seems haha always great to see ya vids dude
I would totally resist it. Though its powers might prove useful....it is a attractive thing is it not? I can weild it, i can control it...the price is not that high....it is a precious thing not to be wasted, no it is my precious...
Good to see you
Why shouldn't i...
Focus on the good of the Ring. Bad is already bound to man.
i would love having the one ring
but if i could avoid its corruption
See i wonder what would have happened if hypothetically someone had wore the ring or had the ring in their possesion for a long period of time a couple of years say and the ring had made them do some bad things after corupting their goals and then lost it but never found the ring again and then when its destoryed, i wonder what would have happened then, would they have gone mad, been left to clearly see what they had done or would it have killed them like a psychic back lash.
This is a great speculative video.
What if my desire is to give the ring to Sauron and become one of his Evil men General dudes
Brilliantly entertaining!
Music was absolutely apropos. Sheeshe
Is the tower at 3:11 supposed to be Orthanc? It reminds me of the tower Linkin Park stands atop in the music video for In The End.
I know this is an old video but as somone who has a pretty strong will and is very stubborn like the Dwarves are it's terrifying to know the One Ring would basically instantly snare any of the Free People Dwarves Men and Elves alike. Except Tom Bombadil 😅🤣😂
From what Gandalf says it appears that any Ring of Power would have these deleterious effects on a mortal (except for a dwarf) not just The One Ring.
Sounds a lot like the Paradox of Evil that Lelouch talked about in Code Geass. Suppose there's an evil you cannot defeat by just means. Do you commit evil to destroy it? Or do you remain just and righteous and allow it to persist? In either case evil remains.
The moral of this story is: Shiny things are not always your friends.
Anyone who says they wouldn't be corrupted by the ring would be the first ones the ring corrupts.
From the desire to do good evil is born and from evil good may sprout.
There is light in darkness and darkness in the light.
Power is not wholy evil, it is just a means to an end. And when no adversaty the easier to fall into the pits of Melkor.
Great video my friend
Honestly, it just kinda seems like living in the modern age is like having the One Ring. Think about it... Via the power of the internet you can become better at certain things easier, and social media can make you more charismatic and coercive.. ambition of any kind, it's there trying to get you to 'rise and grind' all the time. Get money...even the mostly invisible thing also fits my admittedly silly analogy here... Seriously though, listen to this video but think about your phone instead and it's eerily accurate
I think some do not realize it corrupts because the ring is not jsut some object. The books say I believe that Sauron put into it his cruelty his Malice and will to dominate all life. And it WANTs to return to Sauron. Above all else it will betray you the moment it has the chance to get back to its one master. Aragorn says it best. The ring has one master Sauron. Nobody else.
Don't be sorry, the video is awesome as always
If I found the one ring, I'd put it in a lead box and drop it down the Marianas trench.
It will then work its way into the earth and twist the planet to its own thought, before blowing it up and floating in space waiting for Sauron to find it
Sounds like trying to change things becomes this Catch-22 problem. You can't change anything without power, but if you acquire power you risk losing sight of the changes you wish to implement. So is the status-quo "good" or "better"? Should we be content with the way things currently are and not push for change or reform?
I'm definitely missing something here.
You got a bit confused between the movies and the books. In the books, the Ring wearer's surroundings only become blurred and shadowy if they wear the Ring near Mount Doom (so in Mordor or Cirith Ungol). If they are far away from Mordor, their surroundings don't change. The movies took creative and dramatic liberties. In the text, Frodo's surroundings did not change on Weathertop, only the Nazgul changed. In the movies they changed this scene to make it as dramatic as possible. With other details too e.g. Aragorn actually setting the Nazgul on fire.
After listening I have sleuthed out that I would be completely fine, and besides why shouldn't I haves it?
There is one thing this video missed. The One Ring can be mastered! With science.
HAHA Last time I found a non-descript gold ring was in Paris and some gypsy was running some weird scam where it was their ring and I was supposed to pay them money for finding it or something. Made no sense. I told them to go away.
Throw it in the sea, IT’S GOING TO HOLD OF YOU! 😂
Loved this video :D
Bad 💍
Hm...I think mine is broken.
Cheers
That "corrupted solution to world hunger" scenario actually happened, genetically modified crops and other modern agricultural inventions were spread throughout the world and now the least organized and most unstable parts of the world are also the most overpopulated.
A deep belief in faith and God would stop you being corrupted. Do you think mother Tereasa would have surcomed to the ring ?
I got a question.
Why did Morgoth waste his divine power away into corrupting the realm of Arda and imbue so much of his personal strength that made him the mightiest valar into servants that would end up dying anyway during his wars?
It seems very counterintuitive to his efforts to controlling Arda because by the end of war for sake of the Elves he wasted so much of his divine might that he couldn't even bare to fight the Valar one on one anymore and it only got worse at the end of the war of wrath where even Tolkien stated that Sauron at his strongest was greater then Morgoth at his weakest.
Why? That's a good question. I'd say the answer is that Morgoth wasn't a rational thinker. He was so determined to destroy or corrupt everything not of his make that nothing else mattered to him. Pouring his power into his wicked creations was just a means to an end, and you have to remember that it did work. He did achieve mastery of Middle-earth, but he never expected the Valar to attack him again. Even then, his creations (like the winged dragons) gave him a slim chance of victory that he otherwise probably wouldn't have had. Yes, his person was weaker, but the power he accumulated matched the armies of Valinor.
And besides, Tulkas kicked his ass. If it came down to it, he'd have a better chance of keeping Tulkas away with his armies than he would of defeating him face-to-face.
@@DarthGandalfYT
Well sounds like Morgoth was a bit of a idiot when it comes to strategy.
The Biblical Satan is smarter then him in that category.
You could probably make a video about how much of a shortsighted moron he was.
If he really wanted to rule the world properly he should kept his power to himself and either *A:* rule from the shadows, or *B:* conquer the world yourself don't just sit on your black iron throne for a few centuries when there is a war out there that needs decisive calecutive managing.
If anything Morgoth should of done more to regain his orginal power like Sauron did to a extent.
@@DarthGandalfYT
Morgoth should of trained himself how to fight a divine brawler in a head to head fight.
Sell it on eBay to a lord of the rings fan
That’s one way to get rid of something very evil
Could balefire from wheel of time destroy the ring? 🤔
Well, it's said that one of the ways the One Ring could be unmade is if a greater power destroyed it. Presumably, Tolkien meant the Valar when he wrote this line. Considering balefire erases things from existence, it could be considered a greater power. I would say yes.
If i found the one ring i would get bored of it.
It simply lacks the power i desire and i care nothing for things I don't control.
Its constant temptation would just annoy me.
If I found the ring I would just use it for good and not be tempted or overwhelmed by it.
but the ring would twist your good intentions into something evil.