Why didn't Frodo just throw the ring into the ocean or some other place where it is impossible to find?

Why didn't Frodo just throw the ring into the ocean or some other place where it is impossible to find?

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If I were him I'd give it to Gollum then walk the fuck home

Yeah, Middle Earth didn't have deep sea diving nor did they have the knowledge of how to trawl the seabed of an ocean

Because the ring wanted to be found. It would have washed up on some beach in France like at the end of Jumaji

>be a little hobbit faggot
>be given a ring with massive power
>act all humble and shit
>unironically treasure friendship with Sam's faggot ass
>know that you could easily cast the ring into the ocean
>choose not to do that and be gay on a big adventure with Sam

Why didn't they just make 10,000 identical rings and put them all in one of those claw machines at the arcade that no one can ever win?

>not returning the ring to master Sauron

It makes sense actually.
Dude knows Mordor and orcs like his 5 fingers. He's been caught before and now is careful as fuck. No way Sauron ever find him.

Why embed it in molten steel and bake it into a sword? Nobody can wear a ring that's embedded in steel. Especially if they don't know it's in there.

Why didn't they just use the ring on a pick axe because its harder than diamond. You could probably really abuse physics with it.

Is the ring the most useless object of power in all fantasy?
Sauron was winning without it and only lost because of it

Why fucking make rings in the first place? If you absolutely have to dump all your evil power into gold objects, but them in your gold fillings.

This. It will come out eventually. Smeagol found it at the bottom of a river if I remember correctly.

Why didn't Gandalf just ask one of the eagles to swallow the ring for him?

encase it in a large iron block. there is no way it will float to shore or come back until they develop the technology.

Because Sauron would just keep making armies and being semi-alive until the ring was destroyed.

Is eating the ring considered wearing it?
If the ring truely wants to be found, will it give you explosive poop to get out of your body?

Poetry

He should have hid it under his foreskin desu

So why didn't HE throw it in the ocean

the same reason most great men eventually fall: he got greedy

wouldn't being greedy mean he would want to throw it in the ocean ensuring he wont die?

Does Gandalf not know that gold dissolves in nitric + hydrochloric acid? He probably has that shit. Then dump it in a stream. Fuck you, Sauron.

why didn't he just like, not make the ring?

Arrogance. He thought himself invincible and superior to everyone that he didn't think of that. Just like the exhaust port on the Death Star.

Its got a magic spell on it to make it not change.

the ring makes him more powerful. instead of hedging his bets, he decided to hold on to it and try to be a bamf

Why didn't he just give it back to Rhinemaidens?

He made it in a time when the races of dwarves and elves had peaked in middle earth and men we ascending. He broke them all using this ring that bound their rulers to him. It had to be that powerful and capable of destroying him.

arguably he should have made it an object harder to separate from himself, but it probably had to be a ring as the other control devices were. And don't forget it is full of evil and malice. It senses weakness in its master and it jumps ship, like when he lost a sword fight to a mortal...fml

Then he ascends again, but is aware that there is an object out there that if destroyed will kill him. Of course you look for it

Why not smelt it into the middle of some unobtanium and have Frodo mind meld with an Avatar so he can learn the ways of their people and not be a little manlet faggot?

Uh he had to take it to get destroyed, there was this whole ticking clock element, because Sauron was back and poised to steamroll all of middle earth with his armies regardless

Why didn't they just give Legolas a 1,000 kg crossbow and he could have used his aiming hack to shoot it into the volcano from kilometres away

Why didn't they just make a rocket from the gunpower tech they had and like bring the ring into LMEO

why didnt they just call the avengers?

They didn't have the technology to make a rocket with enough delta-v.

Gandalf could have just done some chant or cast a spell on it.

Why didn't dwarves just dig a tunnel under Mordor straight into the Mount Doom lava river?

>enforce tax on Mordor
>problem solved

How did Sauron even forge the ring in a volcano>

The rings were designed to enslave the minds of their wearers. naturally the master ring needed a lot of power to work. it was considered a worthwhile sacrifice.

It's like you kids have never read the books!

what if Sauron just wanted friends?

>picturing this as a documentary in the style of A fistful Of Quarters

the ring not being destroyed in the first place is why he survived though user. he put a piece of his very soul into it, that ring was his will, as long as it survived, so too, would sauron. it's like claiming voldemort was dumb for having horcruxes

Then he shouldn't have joined up with Melkor, my dude.

>implying he wasn't the only one that showed him friendship

Why not throw the ring into that deep ass pit the Balrog came out of? The Balrog wouldn't have wanted to leave and it's too deep for any of Saurons minions to go into.

Why didn't eru illuvatar simply delete melkor from existence?

so your argument as to why gollum could never be caught again by sauron is that gollum was once caught by sauron. absolute genius

Because the sea is literally also a god and some maiar fuck around there too. So there is the danger one of the lesser Angels will be tempted and flood the entire world with their new powerup and insanity. Like Gandalf and Galadriel, all higher beings will be tempted by the ring, and the longer they are exposed to it their resistance will crumble eventually.

But why did Sauron even follow Morgoth in the first place, didn't he know that this motherfucker was the Satan of this world? Was it his sense of perfection, which Sauron thought couln't be accomplised with the other Valar?

If the ring was destroyed in molten rock, it could probably be destroyed in molten metal, just get out a forge and melt that shit.

>he hasn't watched Rogue One

>Because the ring wanted to be found.
So what? What's it going to do, will the ocean currents to push it to land? It's not all-powerful, the only thing we know it can "consciously" do is shrink and expand.

>impossible to find
No such thing when you can do magic.

>being this oblivious about the exhaust port
wew lad

I had the same thought, except they still take it to Mount Doom to destroy it.

Just encase the Ring in something that will keep it out of sight, out of mind. Frodo wouldn't be able to wear it, nobody would be tempted to steal it or claim it, etc... The Ring would have been effectively neutralized until it could be destroyed.

it can just use that to swim like a scallop to shore and then inchworm its way straight to your moms house

>watching nu-wars

Because Sauron still would have won even without the ring, it just would have taken him longer. He had limitless orcs available to him. Destroying the ring was the only way to defeat him and without doing so the destruction of middle earth was only a matter of time.

Sauron didn't need the ring to win, having it would just irrevocably seal the deal. The free men were literally making their last stand as sam was dragging frodo up the mountain. They needed that ring to be destroyed.

did the ring want to be destroyed? Why did it let 2 homo-hobbits throw it into a volcano?

Frodo wasn't wearing the ring when he pushed Gollum in lava, you speedwatcher.

Fucking kek

Why didnt he shove it up his ass

>Why didn't god delete hitler from existence

/thread

>"all powerful" ring
>all it does is make you invisible while getting skullfucked by a burning eye and be seen by ancient wyvern riding undead

Wow what an amazing item, we should all war ourselves to death over it guys.

Because then Sam would have turned invisible every night.

It's part suspension of disbelief.
The truth of the matter is we have no idea how the rings actually work. Just vague ideas of the consequences. The ring was essentially Saurons Horcrux, except it was pretty much indestructible. And to bonus it had power over the other rings, corrupting influence, and jacks saurons power level up.
To sauron, the safest place for the ring was with him always.

Under rated post rohirem

Unironically this. Live out the rest of your days in a comfy as villa on the shores of lake Núrnen with female orc qts and meat on the menu err day.

How is he supposed to lift that, einstein

10/10

Why didn't Legolas fly on an eagle and shoot the ring into space?

This topic comes up a lot.

I am a firm believer that they could've flown the eagles to Mordor to destroy the ring.

I don't wanna repeat arguments, but this covers everything.
sean-crist.com/personal/pages/eagles/index.html

The most damning evidence, and I agree with the author of that site on this weighing is

"Since Gandalf had just related his rescue from Orthanc just prior to the discussion of the various possible plans, the eagles would have been in the thought of everybody at the Council of Elrond, and it is very likely that somebody would have brought the possibility up. But they do not, and I think there are two possible explanations: 1) the possibility never occurred to Tolkien, or 2) Tolkien realized he had a problem and opted not to draw attention to it. In either case, the matter should be counted as a hole in the plot. "

Why didn't he just lock the ring in a box and throw the key into Mt Doom

Which is why I said that it would eventually be destroyed.

In the meantime, it'd be encased in a material that'd make it impossible to wear (even by accident) and it wouldn't be able to tempt others to take it.

Sink the ring into some molten silver/gold/iron, etc...
Let the block cool until it's solid and can be handled
Carry the block to Mt. Doom
Drop the block into the fiery chasm
Defeat Sauron

Same mission with an added safeguard that'd protect the Fellowship from squabbling over the ownership of the Ring.

Why didn't Fordo and Sammy-boy shove the ring into a Chinese finger trap and stick one end in each others asshole.

So why did they have fireworks in fellowship then you pleb? Have you even watched the films? I highly doubt it based on this idiotic uneducated post

why didn't they just blow Mordor up and gas all orcs after kick Sauron ass the first time?

why didn't they throw it into a different volcano? it would be impossible to retrieve and even if the volcano erupted it would be encased in rock.

Why didn't they both just go hide in a cave and fucc eachothers boipucci's for the rest of their lives while also giving succ jobs and tugg jobs.

Why didn't they FedEx the ring to Tulkas in Valinor, on the proviso he come over to Middle Earth and suplex Sauron a few times?

Why didn't Sam, the largest of the hobbits, simply eat the others?

Kek

In the books this is brought up in Rivendell as a possible solution but it is decided that it's too risky, given that there are creatures that dwell in the ocean who would be drawn to it and the ring would likely find it's way back to Sauron as well.

In the films they don't bother with these parts.

While I have a book person here, can you explain something?

What the fuck was the point of Tom Bombadil?

It has been a long time since I clawed my way through them.

I think he was meant to represent those who have no desire for power and are completely content. Sort of the simple agrarian life Tolkien had a hard on for, but again, ages since I read them and there's a lot more drinking and singing in the books than the films.

Does Frodo pay taxes?

He is an ancient deity. It's implied he has been around since the beginning and is one of the strongest beings in middle earth, but he doesn't give a shit about anything but his forest and animals. He couldn't be bothered to help in any of the conpflicts of man, he just wants to chill. The ring didn't have any effect on him, he neither desired it nor got any type of power from it, yet he could see Frodo when he put it on, probably due to his god-like status.

Just some random allegory Tolkein wanted to add to his world.

>crazy jungle hunter going after you and your ring
kek

...

gg

Why didn't he hide the ring in his ass for extra precaution?

just break open the machine and then try each ring on

kek

And get banned from the bowling alley? No thanks

Why didn't they utilize this chopper to fly to Mt. Doom?

Because Sauron was winning.

Gondor should have just taxed the hell out of the trade routes to Mordor, starving the armies of Sauron. Job done.

the one ring can change its circumference