In the FOTR movie (don't bite me - hear me out!), Galadriel says that "To bear a Ring of Power is to be alone." Do you think that the filmmakers inadvertently stumbled an a Tolkien Truth?
Gollum and Frodo were certainly alone. Sam was a ringbearer only when he was alone, so that you could possibly say that it symbolises or compensates for his loneliness. Elrond lost his wife, but was he ever alone? Galadriel had a husband (although no real evidence is there of how their relationship was), but pined for the Blessed Land.
The Nine Riders ended up not alone, but in hardly the sort of company who would make you feel loved or welcome. And as wraiths doomed to walk the world enslaved, they must have had some feelings of loneliness. As for the Dwarf lords, women are seemingly never a priority in the lives of Dwarves. But Thrain, the only Dwarven ringbearer we really know of, had his family around him until the very last, when he ended up faring into the wilds (on his own or with one companion?). In the end he didn't die alone, since Gandalf was there.
Do all ringbearers exhibit some form of loneliness, and if so is it in part due to their owneship of a Ring of Power?
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