They could have fitted the whole ring / tape / mouse assembly into a small paper bag Aragorn could have kept it in his jacket and fed it little bits of lembas on the way how lovely x
Better yet, start the battle of pelannor fields as usual, cept you give that paper bag to Gwaihir and have him drop that shit on Mt doom like a gahdamn b52. NnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnerrrroooooomKABOOM. Job done.
I’m imagining a sped up montage and then a record scratch “yup that’s me, in the paper bag. You’re probably wondering how I ended up here…”
fortunate son starts playing
But that mouse would have become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
And would sing 🎵 HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY! 🎵
Mighty mouse. Faster than a bullet and stronger than a locomotive.
tape did not exist in this era of fantasy… Sam could do this because he was pure of heart
I suspect it’s more a question of proximity, the one not carrying it is much further and thus much less affected by it
If you carry the mouse, then it’s almost as if you’re carrying it yourself
They should have carried an eagle with the ring attached to him.
so just tie it to a stick and hold it in front of yourself
The mouse would have chewed through the pocket and run away as soon as it could
Or possibly climb the nearest thing to get eaten by a bird, kinda like what Frodo did with the nazgul.
Frodo ate a Nazgûl?
They’re surprisingly low calorie.
Ah yes, tape, the cornerstone of every Hobbit’s hole.
Did you read the title?
invents tape, then tapes your mouth shut
Could they have just used a stick to carry it then?
no they should have just taped the mouse to an eagle
Perfection
Until the mouse kills all of them.
I thought Sam did put on the ring in the books.
It also affected Boromir just being around it.
Didn’t Smeagol kill a friend just to have it before even wearing it?
Yes. Basically, Sam was practically only one in the Fellowship who could resist the temptations of The Ring, because he had really simple desires.
Sam Bombadil
I dunno… he didn’t have it for very long in the films, then hesitated when Frodo asked for it back. He resisted the ring, but it still affected him a little bit.
It was more a concern for Frodo as Frodo was desperatefor the ring at the time.
In the book it shows you how the ring attempted to corrupt him and he kind of went “meh” at it.
How did the ring attempt to corrupt ol’ Samwise?
Here’s my answer from the last time this came up (which might as well have been yesterday from how often people unfairly lionize Sam and shit on Frodo):
“As he stood there, even though the Ring was not on him but hanging by its chain about his neck, he felt himself enlarged, as if he were robed in a huge distorted shadow of himself, and vast and ominous threat halted upon the walls of Mordor…”
"Wild fantasies arose in his mind; and he saw Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age, striding with a flaming sword across the darkened land, and armies flocking to his call as he marched to the overthrow of Barad-dur… He had only to put on the Ring and claim it for his own, and all this could be. "
“In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.”
Sam was tempted, and if he possessed the ring long enough he would have been overcome like any other, but his Hobbit-sense saved him in that one small moment, when he had held the ring but a short while.
Also arguably the ring was having a big effect on him the entire time. The entire journey sam hates Smegal, which he sees as what Frodo is becoming carrying the ring. Smegal was a walking personification of the fear sam had for Frodo. That fear was turned into hate by the ring slowly corrupting Sam’s love for his master into a weakness for the ring to leverage. He absolutely was not immune to its power.
We can read the same words and take something different from them. That reads to me like he was able to pretty easily dismiss the temptation. Maybe he would’ve been tempted like Boromir was, maybe he would’ve had the resolve of Frodo, maybe he could’ve held it for much longer like Bilbo.
His Hobbit-sense saved him there. The only one who can tell us with certainly where it lies in relation to Frodo is no longer able to.
It would eventually corrupt anyone… except Tom Bombadil.
Which is equally funny, because he’d have no reason to keep it from Sauron, except kneejerk comedic denial when someone tries to wrong him. The forces of Mordor could rain death upon his woods, and he’d somehow catch hellfire in his chimney and make an especially strong pot of tea. Sauron himself, re-embodied, could swing that ox-sized mace at his door, and howl impotently as each strike bounces off and becomes a knock-knock joke. And then one day, some orc siege captain (who’d slowly gone from digging trenches to tending the carrot patch) would remark on what a fine piece of jewelry Tom wore, and he’d just hand it over and skip away.
I forget the exact wording, but the Ring essentially showed Sam visions of being some sort of a supreme gardener king. Sam dismissed that as fucking stupid, because he just wants a simple garden.
The animated films had a segment of when Sam had the ring and was going to rescue Frodo, and it tempted him that he could use its power to set the world right. I kind of wish Peter Jackson would’ve done something similar.
no it’s cause Sam was a fucking saint
He really was, though. Both Frodo and Bilbo carried the weight better than any other had before them, but they were still negatively impacted by it. But not Sam. Truly a goldenhearted being.
This is my headcanon and I cannot be convinced otherwise.
Yeah sam is the true king imo 👑
I mean, I haven’t read the books in a while now, but iirc they make this pretty damn clear
The ring shrinks down to fit the mouse sized knuckle. After disappearing, the mouse would have hopped on on of those massive eagles and flown away from the volcano.
“so long, suckers!”
Gets to mount Doom, chucks mouse into volcano.
Adorable until it isn’t 🥰
Sam did bear the weight of the ring, its hard to convey in the movie but the book makes it clear. Sam just had an iron will.
He was really just sick and fucking tired of the Lembas bread that much.
Really the whole story of Sam could be boiled down to drive of a man who really wanted to get back to a life of a good women and great food.
Great food = potatoes
Mushrooms, really.
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Humble but great
Needed more pipeweed to get through it.
AND he hadn’t already been carrying the ring the whole fucking way like Frodo did!
It’s both an iron will and a life goal that isn’t really susceptible to corruption. The ring takes the thing you want most and connects itself to that in your mind, twisting your goals to accomplish what it wants.
I’m not really certain what value being temporarily invisible has when all you want to do is garden. Hell, I don’t even think a giant army or conquering the whole world would help either. Just means a more overwhelming garden, which defeats the point.
I mean that’s the reason Hobbits in general can withstand the Ring longer than any other race of Middle Earth. They just want a quiet life without any fuss and that’s pretty much the opposite of what the Ring can promise them.
Ring: I can make you rich!
Hobbit: Eh, than my cousins will pester me all day.
Ring: I can make you strong!
Hobbit: What for? I have an ox for that.
Ring: I can make you king of all!
Hobbit: That’s even worse than rich!
Ring: Exasperated sigh
Ring: Fine! I can give you third breakfast!
But I’m busy eating elevenses right now! Maybe we can have third breakfast tomorrow?
So instead of sending Sam, the whole Shire should have taken the trio together and just passed the ring back and forth amongst like 10 people?
All you have to do is read the first book to realize why that wouldn’t work.
Sir this is a
Wendy’smeme subHard to tell when its not funny.
Sam is the main character in the book
No, just proves Sam is the real hero of the story.
Yeah Sam is the hero we need but probably don’t deserve
Yes, but through that mouse, the ring would wield a power too squeak and scratch to imagine.
Mouse would escape the tape and stick its head through the ring. Then you have an invisible mouse to rule them all to deal with. The whole of Middle Earth would be absolutely overrun with mice
