The One Ring, which Sauron intended to keep for himself, was linked to all the others and, if it were to be destroyed, the powers of the other rings would fade as well. You go, Gamgee.It’s difficult to talk about The Lord of the Rings without talking about, well, the rings crafted by the unsuspecting Elves of Middle Earth under the careful eye of Sauron, who went on to create the One Ring by himself, the Rings of Power were meant to seduce the rulers of the world to evil so that Sauron may control them. If the ring's powers of corruption work in tune with a person's natural inclinations, then Sam must be as good as Sauron is evil. Boromir was tempted to evil just by looking at it, but Sam carried the ring for days - after spending most of the trilogy right beside it, no less - and gave it back right away.
Yet when he finds Frodo again, he gives it back immediately: "'All right, Mr. But in the books, Sam carries the ring for two whole days and is forced to wear it several times to keep from being seen by the orcs. Remember how Sam picked up the ring after he thought Frodo was dead? In the film, he goes super-Saiyan-Sam (but still in a very Sam way) and brings the ring back to Frodo in Cirith Ungol. Every hero needs a sidekick, but doing a sidekick's job doesn't make the sidekick the hero. And all that from one paragraph where Tom Bombadil holds the ring.īut it's not the end of the story. She says simply, " He is." Although she says it normally, the translation in Elvish is "Ea," which happens to be another name for the fires of creation that first made the world. Later, Frodo asks Tom's wife, Goldberry, who Bombadil is. It works - he turns invisible - but as he tries to sneak away from the table, Bombadil calls him back and says "Old Tom Bombadil's not as blind as that yet." Based on the way Bombadil wasn't affected by the ring (and didn't try to keep it), it's obvious that Bombadil is above the influence of the ring. There was no sign of Tom disappearing!"Īfter that, Tom gives the ring back to Frodo "with a smile" and Frodo waits for the right moment to put the ring on his own finger, just to make sure Bombadil didn't pull any ring-switching shenanigans. For a moment the hobbits noticed nothing strange about this. When Frodo and the 'bits run into Tom Bombadil, there's a scene where he takes the ring and tries it on: "Then Tom put the Ring around the end of his little finger and held it up to the candle-light.
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