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Perhaps mere possession is even more rewarding than actual wearing.
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Possession entails more on an ontological and mental level than merely wearing something. After all you can wear or use something that doesn’t belong to you, but when you possess something that means it is absolutely subject to your will. Apply that to an intelligent and emotive being, and possession becomes a complicated and frightening concept.
I think that there is a parallel between the bearer possessing the ring, and the ring coming to possess the bearer, not too much unlike demonic possession. Oh crap! That was another analogy.