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Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle
But instead we have his assertion that he can no longer remember the Shire...if the Ring were whispering away to him about saving the place, wouldn't it be presenting him with visions of the Shire just as it presented visions of a flowering Mordor to Sam, fishes to Gollum and of victory to Boromir?.)
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Perhaps when Frodo says he can 'no longer remember the Shire', he refers to the fact that his memories of it at that time are gone, replaced by what is fed to him by the Ring; delusions that he knows at lucid moments to be false. Just a theory, to be sure.
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Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle
And those quotes you give lead to another interesting point: given that Frodo's desire is to save the Shire and that he knows the only way to do it is to throw the Ring away, would that even be the tactic 'chosen' by the Ring?
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I don't know that the Ring itself 'chooses' the manner in which to break a Bearer. As Gandalf said, the desire of it corrupts the heart; it appeals to the deepest want of its victims, merely using whatever tools are already present. If the desire to save his home was the only way to Frodo's heart, the Ring had to have worked on him using that.
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Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle
The Ring works by promising what its power can give (satisfaction of selfish desire; providing something that the bearer wants for him or herself) but since Frodo's motivation is selfless perhaps the Ring had nothing to 'work' on.
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Wasn't Sam's motivation selfless also? To save the Ring from capture and continue on with the mission?