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it had been lying there so long (2400 years!), perhaps it was releasing all it's pent-up, evil, "come-and-get-me" power into the first promising thing to disturb it?
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That's a very interesting thought. I think that might be the case, however we cannot be sure. And it brings me to another thought. Thinking of the ring as another character again, do you think it has sort of a stamina? If the ring had all that power building up, it could have been sort of training. It might have just been thinking of how it was going to get back to its master and preparing itself for the first chance that comes along. So it was ready for Deagol and Smeagol. But when Smeagol took it to the mountain, I think that the ring began to battle with Gollum's mind. It kept fighting to get out of the mountain I'm sure. And it probably did some serious damage by corrupting Gollum's mind, even though he put up a tough fight. So the ring slips off Gollum and is picked up by Bilbo. Now maybe the ring didn't really corrupt him because the ring was exhausted from the battle with Gollum. It's just a thought, but I find it rather interesting.
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Do you think the ring preferred Smeagol to Deagol in any way?
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That is one thing I have always wondered myself. I wonder if the ring wanted Smeagol to take the ring, or if Smeagol all by himself did and the ring didn't expect that. Hmmm...
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But the Ring's power does vary
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Yeah, you're right. But it wouldn't matter anyways since the dwarves didn't know about it.
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I always imagine the Ring to be a much more dangerous object at the time of Frodo's tenure as Ringbearer than at the time Bilbo was in possession of it.
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Do you think this has anything to do with the stamina idea? I think that that could be a factor, since teh ring had time to recover strength. But, also in The Hobbit, the focus of the story is no the treasure and Smaug, not the ring. But in LotR, the focus is on the ring, so it is more suspenseful there, whereas in the hobbit it wasn't. And besides that, the ring wasn't as developed in The Hobbit as you mentioned.