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All the magical objects can corrupt those who wield them, but only if their bearers choose to be corrupted
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Well, that being generally true, there is a minor, but significant, deviation.
The choice of not being corrupted is expressed by giving the ring away. One can not eat the cake and have it. That is, as the Ring is not only the 'booster' of wielder's weaknesses, but some kind of focus of 'Evil As Outside Force' too, and as it is flatly stated (for the first time in the very chapter we are discussing now) to be able to overcome even the most 'good' intentions (with wich, as is well known, the road to hell is paved
), the only way not to fall is to let
it fall, if you follow my meaning