Why didn't they just sail miles out into the ocean, chain the ring to a weight and toss it overboard?

Why didn't they just sail miles out into the ocean, chain the ring to a weight and toss it overboard?

Sauron and his orc armies would still rek gondor and rohan

mermaids

yeah lets go w/ mermaids

Chain would have rusted and broke, the ring would have drifted in the ocean to a new owner

Because then Cthulhu would have the ring.

What would have happened if they took the ring over the ocean to Valinor?

>main villain is Sauron
>villain's henchman is Sauron's Man
well what a fucking surprise peter hackson

>giving crabmen people the one ring
Shiggy diggy

did you watch the prologue? It doesn't matter, the ring can get completely lost at the bottom of a lake in bumfuck nowhere, buried in sand, and it may even stay there for thousands of years. But eventually it will be found

LITERALLY the exact same thing is suggested in the book.

I'm pretty sure the explanation was that it was their duty to take care of it themselves not to just try to hide it somewhere and leave it to future generations to deal with if it came up again.

Why not throw it down some chasm in some remote inhospitable mountains? What's the ring going to do, grow wings?

>have someone wield the ring and destroy the orc armies with it
>kill the ring bearer just to be sure
>take the ring to the mountain without any resistance
>win

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Why didn't the elves, men, and dwarf lords just take Sauron's rings off?

Why didn't they just fly an eagle to the highest altitude they can fly, then take all of Gandalf's fireworks and shoot it straight into outer space? With some magic, it surely could work.

There's probably like magical fish creatures and one of them would have found it and turned the ocean in a whirlpool or something

Because Sauron was going to destroy Middle Earth eventually, regaining the Ring would just grant him his full powers once again and make the process much quicker. They had to destroy the Ring as it was the only way to destroy Sauron and save Middle Earth.

>So it begins. The great whirlpool of our time

It wouldn't destroy saurons army of orcs and he'd just use a fish to retrieve it.

The ring wants to be found and returned to sauron, it will find a way.

What was Gandalf's fucking problem?

Why did Sauron make a ring in the first place if he could just roflstomp everybody by himself?

literally water dragons they feared would bring the ring to Sauron

Why not travel out to some remote area and dig a really deep hole and bury it?

Does Sauron have fucking moles working for him too

I find it funny that Tolkien tried to fill most of the plotholes during the Council of Elrond (which the movie skipped), including shit like giving the ring to Tom "fuck you and your Arda logic" Bombadil

but he somehow missed to bring up the Eagles or did it on purpose just to have it become a dank meme

The first time around he couldn't. He got his ass kicked. It's just in the 3000 years since then all his enemies got much weaker.

naz ghul riding evil sharks go into the ocean and get it

Why couldn't Sam just eat the ring, poop it out, and flush it down the toilet? If this is a world where wizards and dwarfs with godlike craftsmanship then surely toilets exist.

Because it served two purposes. The first was that it made him more powerful. The Ring was basically a min-max type thing. You're weak when you're not wearing it but you're more powerful when wearing it that you were before. He poured about 90% of his power into it and the magic of the Ring doubled that power. So that means that when he wasn't wearing the Ring he was weak and at 10% of his power but when he was wearing it he was at 190%.

The second effect of the Ring was that it was linked to the other rings of power and enabled Sauron to basically control whoever was wearing them. This is why he gifted them to the most powerful dwarf, human and elf rulers of the land in an attempt to seduce their minds and bend them to his will. They fell for this deception as this was centuries before the events of LOTR.

How do orcs know what menus arew?

Why didn't they just throw it into some other put of lava? It might not destroy it but who the fuck is going to retrieve it?

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The fire maiar of Melkor might (of balrog's and arien's kin, etc.).

Same thing happens if you drop it in the sea. There are tons of unfamous maiar living there with Ulmo (osse and uinen are two iirc)

How was Sauron created, or did he just exist out of nowhere? Same for wizards like Gandalph, how did they come to be wizards?

Eagles would be killed by archers or flying minions. The only reason that they worked in the end was because the army was being attacked and distracted

Why didn't they just cut the ring-bearers fingers off so that he could never physically succumb to the temptation to put it on?
Why didn't they have him carry the ring in a small locked box to make it impossible to put on?

They existed before time and space. Inventing them is like the first thing Eru did, in the first page of the Silmarillion.

There are things that live in the ocean, not all are good. Sea dragons. could you imagine smaug with the one ring?

They're all angels created by God.

Sauron was a lesser Maiar, on the same level as Gandalf for reference. Gandalph and the other Istari weren't wizards, the beings of Middle Earth just called them that because they had no other word to explain their magical powers. Gandalf and the others were sent to Middle Earth to help guide and protect its denizens.

Does anyone actually like Elijah Wood as an actor?

I do

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Doing either of those would be retarded as there were a few times in which it was necessary to put the Ring on.

That wouldn't matter, it's like raiders of the lost ark, indy could have done nothing and the Nazis would have melted anyway. Frodo would still refuse to throw it into Mt doom and gollum would fight him for it

The balrog was on the same level as gandalf, sauron was above them

Yeah. The dude's a good actor and is well off enough to choose roles he enjoys. He always give a solid if not amazing performance in everything he's in and is a humble, chill guy.

holy shit

No they are all Maiar, Sauron is just much more powerful.

Thats exactly what I said

>humble, chill guy
Which is ironic because most of the stuff I see him in he's either a spastic or a straight-up asshole (e.g. Wilfred, Dirk Gently)

The ring wants to be found. Its evil aura draws people to it. It's the same reason smeagol and bilbo found it. Some dude on a ship would end up finding it years down the line.

You do realize that actors aren't the same people they play, right? I said Elijah was humble and chill, not the roles he chooses.

you must go back

Why does the West-gate say "Aran Moria" on its inscription? Moria is a negative term meaning Black Chasm. It should say "Aran Hadhodrond."

now this is some superior level of autism

this

Because it was used by elven traders, they probably thought it was a sick diss

Putting off dealing with a problem is not the same as solving it.

Another question that has been answered a million times, and the answer is in the books, so you could just google that shit.

when the memes cross over into the absurd it really sends my sides into orbit

Why does Iluvatar allow evil and suffering to exist?

why don't they just put the ring in a chest, put chains around it, destroy the keys, build an iron box around the chest with no openings, put a magic seal on the iron box, and throw it into one of those super deep pits that gandalf fell into

If they didn't destroy the ring then Sauron would have conquered middle earth. They couldn't just hide the ring because they would lose the war against it.

The ring would betray it's wielder like it did with Isildur and tried to do with Frodo

The elves did take the rings off. The dwarves were immune to sauron's mind control but the rings made them greedy and their greed attracted dragons and balrogs. The kings of men didn't take them off because they wanted eternal life and then became the ringwraiths.

>someone picks up the ring from the corpse
>runs away

why didn't they just put the ring around gandalf's disgusting wrinkly cock

>give the ring to the balrog
fool of a took

They ask this very question in the book and the answer is that this is exactly what happened the first time, it was lost in a river and forgotten but because the ring has a mind of its own it was found again eventually. Evil has a way of being found.

The only way to stop Sauron was to destroy the ring.

Why does God allow me to be sick with a sinus infection for 3 weeks and also no gf?

Because Frodo would have found it instantly

>flying minions
You mean like NAAAAZGULSSS

Why didn't Frodo just give the ring to Gandalf and have him dump it somewhere in the western lands?

Why do people still think Feanor did anything wrong?

Taverns exist. I'm sure the Prancing Pony had a menu.

Who Eru and why he make alll dis shit?

The menu came with printing and literacy. It's safe to assume the barmaid or tavern keeper would tell you what was available that day for eating and drinking.
"We slaughtered a fine hog today so it's pork! The missus baked a fine batch of loaves. And we have some nice trouts fresh caught!"