If the ring had a mind of its own why didn’t they just ask it to find its own way back to mount doom

If the ring had a mind of its own why didn’t they just ask it to find its own way back to mount doom

why didnt the ring just expand to 100 times its size so it could be easier to spot?

Why didn’t the ring just take the eagle to Mordor

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why didn't it just glow really bright to be easily spotted?

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WHY didn’t you get the answer the first time brainlet. Go back to facebook.

why didnt it just walk to mordor herself?

Why didn’t the ring evolve to let out high pitched screams?

This is actually a legit question
Why didn't it manipulate a dumb animal into eating it then manipulate into migrating towards mount doom and when it's shit out manipulate it again to eat the shit covered ring again and do that until it's back to sauron?

Humans are the only animals to eat their own shit under ring manipulation though

I think it can only manipulate intelligent species.. a retarded squirrel couldn't be tempted by it because it's retarded

It needed an agent to get it back to Morder. It had a mind of its own but not the physical means.

its a fucking circle, it could have rolled all the way to mordor

WRONG
I’ve seen fear in the eyes of a squirrel

>It had a mind of its own but not the physical means.
Why didn’t it just find a cart, take one of the wheels off and attach itself as the fourth wheel and then roll itself to Mordor?

Well?

The ring was worried about the travel taxes.

since it was the one ring to rule them all how come it couldn't manipulate all of the other ring bearers it came into proximity of?

Was the one ring responsible for the other rings taxes?

one of the universal characteristics of rulership is the ability to impose taxes so, yes

One ring to rule them all, this ring never relaxes. Cause the one ring must bring them all and also do their taxes

Mordor is uphill

Ok, then why didn’t it just roll into a creek?

The ring can only work through subtly, and men's hearts were already corrupted by Sauron ages ago. The best it could hope for is a beggar finding it, but instead Gollum found it, and that backfired

>the ring is always trying to get back to sauron
>gollum finds the ring
>nothing happens for 500 years

o.....k

That would still be physical means. It needed to corrupt someone into doing what it wants.

it corrupted gollum and nothing happened

the ring can only manipulate people through greed

holy crap i finally get it. the ring is symbolic for women

Well yeah, Gollum is retarded

Because that's not the story Tolkien wanted to write.

Gollum is a hobbit, and it took longer for the ring to change him. However it worked too well, and Gollum's obsession with the ring made him crawl into that mountain. So in a sense, the ring fucked itself

why didn't Frodo make an eagle invisible and fly to Mt Doom?

They should have just given it to you then

No it’s fear not greed

so the ring can't manipulate a retarded hobbit? what a weak ass ring

>Glue ring to squirrel
>Carry squirrel into Mordor
>Frodo wouldn't have to bitch about the burden anymore

Gollum manipulated the ring by letting it get continuously eaten by bigger cave fish thus allowing Gollum to gain thei life force thus allowing him upon eatcomoletion of said cave fish to have more control.

He also read the 48 rules of power

Because then the eagle would become consumed by the ring and would gore Frodo so it could keep it.

It can. Hobbits are notoriously hard to corrupt though. They break eventually, it just takes considerably longer than with other species, such as Elves or Men. They also do not possess the power and drive to become tyrants and warlords, which would make Gandalf or Galadriel so downright terrifiying if subjugated under the Ring's power.

gollum was completely consumed by the ring and he had it for 500 years....

Man, I wonder if Tolkien ever thought people would make stupid memes about his allegory for valkyries

HAHAHA YEAH XD MAN TOLKEEN XD AMIRIGHT XXD WEVE GOT IT ALL FIGURED OUT

Ringwraiths also had an Air Force (fell beasts)

it was affecting him even though he wore it around a necklace. it still calls people to put it on/pick it up.

Yes, and he was a Hobbit. Hobbits are a weird people. Gollum just turned all his hopes and wants from things that grow, ale and food to THE PRECIOUS. He was never going to part with it. However, the Ring did not encounter other intelligent life that could carry him away until Bilbo showed up. That took 500 years.

GET OUT OF MY THREAD TRIPFAG NIGGER

Why didn't they just fuck the eagles?

why did the ring fuck with hobbits so much, the one race that had a reasonable chance of resisting it?

I mean think about it, the ring wouldn't have a chance against a hobbit's desire to just sit in the shire eat pies and fuck bitches, and the few that do go out are liable to throw it in a volcano

Isildur made himself many enemies and was killed in such a way that the Ring was lost and could not be found.
He was found by Sméagol and Sméagol was cast out from society, so it had no choice but to stay with him until a better party presented itself. By fate or by chance, it was another Hobbit. So it was delayed again. And then another Hobbit. And then another Hobbit. And then the third Hobbit again. And then, for a split-second, the first Hobbit again.