Because the Ring does not sense any threat nor does it find the hobbits remarkable, there is not as much of a pull from the Ring on the hobbits. All of this is not to say that the Ring has no effect on the hobbits. If worn on a mortal or more specifically someone of the race of man, the Ring would physically and mentally corrupt the one who wore it much like what happened with the Nine Rings who turned the men into wraiths. The more the Ring is worn, the more it has a pull on the one wearing it.
Although hobbits are much less concerned with power, they can still be corrupted if they wear the Ring too often. The creature Gollum had the Ring for some years before it abandoned him, and although it physically changed him, he still maintained some control over himself because he did not wear the Ring very often. Bilbo also seemed to be slightly corrupted mentally, and at one point appeared to even be changing physically, but he was able to remain good.
The Ring fuels the desires of the one who wears it. Sauron had a will to dominate all life, and the Ring enabled him to do so. If man wears it, the Ring will take the desire for power they already have and amplify it.
Sam is actually considered the true hero of the story by Tolkien, and as Mistu4u pointed out, there is a lot of allegory and meaning he put into The Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson did a lot to interpret his works as faithfully and truthfully as he could and also added elements that come from other books.
Gandalf and Aragorn were wise enough to know that the Ring's will would try to subvert them. Having a part of Sauron's soul inside it, it would convince people as it had Boromir and earlier Isildur that they could defeat Sauron with it -- that they could master it.
The Ring was evil, and would always lead those that sought to master it towards evil. It was tricky, very tricky and would always seek its master or create a new Sauron kind of like Voldemort in Harry Potter with his Horcruxes. Only one pure of heart and free of desire with a strong-willed mind could have carried the Ring without giving into its will.
Frodo was the only choice. Sam could have, but he didn't even have a desire to carry it to be destroyed. He would have tried to find a different hobbit as a way of dealing with it, probably similar to Bilbo's and Gollum's method -- keeping it close. Except Sam wouldn't have used it at all. He would have simply buried the Ring, which would then find a way to get to someone that it could work its will on.
The time had come for it to be destroyed, and only Frodo was the right amount of brave, fearful and adventurous to get the job done. When Elrond called the council of the races, they started fighting over what should be done to the ring. Boromir was allured by it almost instantly. It became clear to Gandalf and others within that sometimes one needs a person who is not greedy for power and who can not deterred from his aim easily.
The ring had the power to corrupt a person. So taking the ring to the mountain was itself a very hard task to achieve. While fighting over the ring, Frodo was the one who stepped forward to volunteer in carrying the ring to the mountain where it was forged. Everybody then decided to let him carry the ring. There were several reasons behind giving him the responsibility. Frodo had an innocent character. The innocence made him more immune to the ill-effects of the ring.
Frodo did not lust for power. Gandalf and others use power, so they can easily be deceived by it. But Frodo can not be, because he had no lust for power. Besides, Frodo was successful in carrying the ring from the shire to the council. So he had also got some experience in carrying it. So others must have also thought that as until then Frodo was successful in carrying the ring to the council, maybe he had gained some immunity against the ring.
We saw that Sam could not withstand its power even for sometime, but Frodo could. This is because was Frodo's inherent nature to resist the power of ring whereas others could not.
So we can say it was his nature which helped him to stand firm against the charms of the ring for longer time than others. Maybe the context is not really that relevant, but I found a nice explanation in the yahoo answer by some author about why Frodo is not affected by the ring, from the writes point of view:.
Tolkien, who wrote LotR, filled the book with a lot of Christian Catholic images. The threesome of Sam, Frodo and Gollum, who take the ring to Mordor, represent the three "parts" of man - spirit, soul and body. The Ring represents sin. Frodo, who is the soul or mind , is the one who carries the ring.
If it were damaged or destroyed, so too would be Sauron's strength and power. Soon afterwards, Sauron attempted to use it first to subjugate the Elven wielders of the other Rings. However, when he placed the Ring on his finger, the Elves were immediately aware of him. Correctly assuming that his attempt to gain lordship had been thwarted, Sauron marshalled his armies to seize the Rings of Power by force. Initially, the war went very well for Sauron. He captured Eregion in short order and took back the Nine Rings that were kept there, and also Celebrimbor , the maker of the Elven Rings of Power.
He tortured Celebrimbor until he divulged the location of the Seven Rings. Celebrimbor died under torment by Sauron, refusing to reveal what he had done with the Three Rings , which he valued most. Since it indirectly caused Isildur's death by slipping from his finger and revealing him to the Orcs, it was known in Gondor lore as Isildur's Bane.
Gollum, after being exiled from his home, sought shelter far beneath the Misty Mountains. There he and it remained for nearly five hundred years, until the Ring abandoned him and fell off his finger. This is thought to be an example of one of the more noticeable powers of the Ring; the ability to change size at will. It also displays the fact that the Ring is sentient, having part of the spirit of Sauron inside it. Shortly after discovering it, Bilbo came upon Gollum himself, who had intended to eat the lost Hobbit.
Bilbo managed to get Gollum to agree to a riddle game to determine his own fate; if he lost, Gollum would get to eat him, and if he won, Gollum would have to show him a way out of the caves. Gollum lost the game but had no intention of letting Bilbo leave. He went to retrieve the Ring in order to use its powers of invisibility to help him kill Bilbo, but flew into a rage when he found it missing. Deducing that Bilbo had it from his last question— "What have I got in my pocket?
At one point as he neared the exit, Bilbo was presented with an opportunity to easily kill Gollum, but relented out of pity for Gollum's wretched condition. Bilbo escaped Gollum and the Orcs that inhabited the Misty Mountains by remaining invisible, and told a falsified account of his adventures to Thorin 's company and Gandalf , claiming he had been very agile in the dark and escaped the goblins.
Gandalf , who was also travelling with the Dwarves, was suspicious of Bilbo's story and of the Ring itself, which he immediately recognized as one of the Great Rings of Power due to the retarding effects it had had on Gollum's aging process. Some few years after Bilbo's return to the Shire, Gandalf managed to coerce from Bilbo the real story of how the Ring had come into his possession.
The truth, as it turned out, had been quite innocent and was so similar to Bilbo's fabrication that Gandalf saw no real reason why Bilbo would have lied about his story in the first place, save perhaps to put his claim to the Ring beyond any possible doubt. Gandalf quickly came to believe that the Ring had an "unwholesome" effect on its owner that set to work almost immediately, as it was not in Bilbo's nature to lie, particularly regarding something so apparently trivial.
However, he saw no real danger in letting Bilbo keep the Ring despite the Hobbit's strangely possessive attitude towards it. In the sixty years that Bilbo had the ring he seldom used it, although he kept it on his person at all times. This lack of use meant its malign effects were slow to take hold, the most noticeable being that Bilbo retained a relatively young appearance even past years old.
In TA , Bilbo concocted a plan to leave the Shire for Rivendell , and both he and Gandalf had initially intended for Bilbo's nephew and adopted heir Frodo to inherit both Bilbo's estate and the Ring. As the time came for Bilbo to give it up however, he became extremely reluctant to pass the Ring to his nephew, and his obstinacy over the issue led Gandalf to confront him directly about the Ring.
At this point, though Gandalf did not yet know exactly what the Ring was, he could tell that it was both evil and gaining a great deal of influence over his old friend. As such, he advised Bilbo in the strongest terms to give the Ring to Frodo. After a short, angry debate, Bilbo calmed down and managed to give up the Ring of his own free will. He then departed from the Shire, and Frodo came into possession of the Ring.
However, Bilbo's strangely hostile reaction to giving up the Ring had greatly disturbed Gandalf. Troubled by both his encounter with Bilbo and recent events in the world at large, Gandalf began to consider the possibility that the Ring might be more dangerous than he had first believed.
He initially considered revealing his concerns to Saruman , the head of the White Council and the Istari. However, having grown wary of Saruman's pride, he decided to keep his own counsel for the time being. Instead, he considered finding and interrogating Gollum in order to help him further understand the nature of the Ring.
He searched for news of Gollum, and managed to determine that Gollum had indeed left the Misty Mountains to locate the Ring. However, lulled by the fact that Saruman had revealed to the White Council on at least one occasion that the Ring was beyond finding, he decided to let Gollum be. This proved to be an unfortunate oversight on Gandalf's part, because Gollum's long possession of the Ring had incidentally left him open to a mental summons from Sauron, who was putting forth his power to draw as many evil beings as possible to Mordor to rebuild his forces.
As such, Gollum was pulled away from his search for the Shire and came at last to Mordor. Here, Sauron too recognized the effects of a Ring of Power on Gollum. As the other Rings were all accounted for, being in his possession, destroyed, or in the hands of the Elves, he knew that Gollum must have at some point possessed the One.
Under torture, Gollum revealed the existence of Bilbo and the Shire. Now extremely worried, Gandalf decided at last to locate Gollum. Gandalf requested of his close friend Aragorn that he should aid him in a hunt for Gollum. However, as Gollum was at the time in Sauron's custody, his search was in vain. After months of fruitless wandering, Gandalf gave up on finding Gollum, leaving the seemingly hopeless search to Aragorn. Desperate for information, Gandalf realized while thinking of Saruman's ring-lore that the only source from which he could have obtained his knowledge was some sort of account left by Isildur, as he was the only person ever to have possessed the Ring besides Sauron.
Gandalf then traveled to Minas Tirith in search of any records Isildur might have left behind concerning the Ring. After a thorough search, he finally came across a short manuscript by Isildur concerning the Ring's properties, including an important note that the Ring, when made hot, seemed to manifest fiery writing upon its outer band.
Armed with this knowledge, Gandalf began a return trek to the Shire when he learned that, against all odds, Aragorn had somehow managed to find and capture Gollum. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Ethnicity Why did Bilbo hide the ring? Ben Davis March 8, Why did Bilbo hide the ring? Why do hobbits resist the ring? Why is Sauron an eye? Did the Ring corrupt Sam?
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