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He is great and noble and smart and strong and honourable -- it is his tragedy that he is drawn to the Ring for all of these reasons. I don't think that we need to start going into a search for the "flaws" in his character that lead to his destruction, since the Ring plays on his strengths.
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if he weren't such hero, he would not have attempted to seize the Ring
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Yep yep yep... you hit the nail on the head,
Fordim, and then hit it again and again.
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There are two reactions to this discomfort. The natural response is to seek easy answers with which to do away with the discomfort -- these easy answers usually take the form of some kind of distancing between ourselves and the tragic hero: he is 'flawed' in some way that we can identify and safely categorise and say we are not flawed that way
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Excellent observation.
I have nothing to add except- read Fordies awesome post again.
(I would've just repped you, F, but it wouldn't let me- said I had to spread the wealth a bit)
