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Again, the Ring is both the most powerful & the least powerful object in Middle-earth. If it finders a wearer who 'attunes' him/herself to it its power will be the better able to work through them. If everyone rejects it it is useless.
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An interesting way to phrase it,
davem! I've heard this very thing applied to religious dogma and political systems as well. One could apply it to the written word in many forms--words are dangerous, but impotent if none read them or heed them. But once read, they cannot be forgotten. This is a vague corollary to Frodo's loss of innocence in his assumption of the Ring quest and appears to be backed by the law of Entropy, the original Fall of Man and many other human observations/history/literature, etc.
Is the evil, like Melkor's unwitting introduction of the beauty of snowflakes, better to have been, or is it simply entropy, a one way inevitable road that corrupts everything (better to have been, and yet still it remains evil.) . I can't help but wonder if this phenomenon is a psychological byproduct of a civilization trapped by the philosophy of time and its one way nature. I still haven't gotten the brainpower together to sit down and figure out "The End of Time" by Julian Barbour. Maybe one day, if it isn't too late!
Cheers!
Lyta (sorry for the divergence from the topic!)