Fwiw, the ring had an aura of evil, not just a touch-based curse of evil. Boromir was by all accounts a cool guy until being around the ring made him go temporarily fucky in the head.
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I am not a Tolkien scholar, but my understanding is that the would do its evil-ring best to get away from something as weak as a chicken and onto the finger of a more powerful thrall.
A goose, maybe.
Let's not go crazy here. A lion with a gun would probably be up before that much evil.
A chimpanzee with a machine gun would probably be less dangerous than a goose with the ring. Hell, a goose with the ring might be more dangerous than Sauron with the ring.
I agree. I think it was trying for a goose when it abandoned Sauron.
I love that interpretation. Sauron created a weapon too powerful for even him to control. It betrayed him and made it's way to the shire, looking for a goose.
The ring would attract all types to it. Not to mention, Gollum will have a much easier time robbing a chicken than a Hobbit and it isn't like this hyopthetical somehow solves the Gollum problem.
I mean The Ring chilled with Gollum for a long time. To The Ring I'm sure a chicken and Gollum were about an equal level of weakness. It's also said that The Ring abandoned Gollum, as in it made a choice.
Although it didn't seem to be in much of a hurry, since The Ring stayed with Bilbo for a while.
The reply is damn spot on, the whole of middle earth was terrified of it falling into the hands of almost anyone - if they were powerful enough, they'd become a new Sauron, if weak enough they'd be virtually enslaved by the ring and made to return it to the dark lord.
A hobbit was literally around the threat level of a chicken, with the added bonus of being thick skulled enough for the ring to have a hard time influencing them...
Granted, Frodo was much more seriously affected than Bilbo, but Sauron had regained much power by then, they were much closer having travelled into Mordor itself, Frodo was physically and emotionally debilitated during a big part of the trip, and he was fully aware of the burden he was carrying. Finally, the ring actively fought back as they approached Mount Doom, becoming heavier and aggressively trying to corrupt Frodo.
The boys did good there.
He also got stabbed by the Witch King, which I’m sure had an effect bonus on the ring’s influence over him.
Well, I didn't want to go into all the ways Frodo was debilitated during the journey, but most evident ones:
- the Morgul-blade splinter in his shoulder that never healed, as you mentioned;
- Shelob’s sting - the extent of the physical and psycological consequences of that ordeal couldn't have been light and some possibly permanent;
- Physical deprivation, from the long months of marching, poor sleep, starvation, dehydration, and exhaustion;
- Psychological/"spiritual" trauma from the One Ring trying to erode his will, the strain of fighting against Sauron's desire to dominate that is within the ring
That luxury trip package to the Undying Lands didn't come cheap.
Just to expand on what you've written, the ring takes over those who wish for power. It can be power for good too, such as with Gandalf.
Hobbits care for none of that. They want to drink, smoke and tend to their garden. That's why the ring struggled to take power over Frodo.
This is obviously cooked up by someone that's never been around chickens
Or played Heretic or a few other games.
The ring isn't just inert. It's constantly trying to return to Sauron. It would be trying to get that chicken to leave, or drop it somewhere. How many times did the group get caught in some chaotic battle or had to run from something.
Or hide... You can bet that ring is gonna make the chicken start making noise if there's an army of orcs sniffing around
It would also have been tempting everyone around it, like it did Boromir.
Having chased the chickens in Zelda OoT, I could imagine this quest going quite poorly.
The moment you put the ring around the chicken's ankle, there's a "poof" sound and cloud of smoke. When the smoke clears, there stands Sauron with the ring on his finger screaming "you thought I was just a chicken but it was me all along!"
The hobbits were not chickens though, they were amongst the bravest, just not as capable of violence.
Well, in the Sillmarillion, Lluvatar tells Melkor "Nice try fucking up my song, but I thought of that, watch:" and then middle earth was made.
It's my theory that hobbits were Lluvatar's answer to Melkors machinations.
Im imagining melkor hitting the ol "Oh, Eru!" (Badum ba, dum) sitcom special
An answer that took 3 entire epochs, and major world wars to come into play?
With the power of the One Ring, I shall throw down Colonel Sanders BUCK-BUCK-BUCK!



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