2007-01-06 05:01:41 · 8 answers · asked by lildude3216 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for the Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
The "one ring" gives the holder the *power* to rule over all the others; hence it's extremely powerful and scary as heck to think of the evil Sauron getting his filthy hands on it (again), as he wanted the ring to bring Middle Earth back under the control of darkness.
2007-01-06 05:09:52 · answer #1 · answered by ljb 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When a person wore the Ring, he would be partly "shifted" out of the physical realm into the spiritual realm. There, if he managed to consciously subdue the Ring's will with his own, he could wield all the powers that Sauron had before he lost the ring; notably, he could control and enslave the will of others.
Part of the nature of the Ring was that it slowly but inevitably corrupted its wearer, regardless of any intentions to the contrary. The power of the One Ring was foremost the power to preserve ones life force and willpower against entropy and the decay of time. Wearing the Ring, even briefly, would curse a mortal with an indefinitely long lifespan.
The One Ring could also perform other functions beyond mind control. It could amplify any inherent power its owner possessed. It also might have given the wielder the ability to read people's minds, as Galadriel suggested to Frodo when asked if he could learn to communicate telepathically like she did. Finally, the One Ring had 'mastery over the powers of all the other Rings'.
Last but not least, the portion of Sauron's power that passed into the Ring during its creation endowed it with a malevolent sentience of sorts - while separated from Sauron, the Ring would forever strive to return to him, both by compelling its bearer to seek out Sauron or his servants and by directly influencing events.
2007-01-06 13:26:16 · answer #2 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are right it is ambiguous. I think it was intended that way so that each individual could read into it what ever there life experience led them to.
It may be about the lust for power. The power to be a god, to control all and to be all. It may be the lust for money. The feeling that if money were no longer an issue life would be perfect....we would reach a state of perfection we have never known.
Most assuredly it is about an external force that takes us over to do what ever is within us to do, be it good or evil.
2007-01-06 13:18:17 · answer #3 · answered by John B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What I understood was that it gives power to anyone in the way they want to but, usually bad behavior takes to do bad things and supreme power like God or something superior in any way, that what I think.
2007-01-06 13:13:15 · answer #4 · answered by Armando 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say what they are probably looking for is the power to become invisible since this seems to be the main thing it is used for in the trilogy.
2007-01-07 16:49:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
power. yet even in the best of hands the power becomes corrupt.
2007-01-07 22:18:59 · answer #6 · answered by irulan10191 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invisibilty, unless you are a Maia.
2007-01-06 13:05:58 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
give me clear sighs about my 78 cards
2007-01-06 13:05:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋