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Old 12-27-2011, 02:43 AM   #1
TheLostPilgrim
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The Ring: If Galadriel or Gandalf had taken it?

I have a question about Galadriel. I have not read the books in a while, but in the films, when Frodo offers her the Ring, she states that her heart has indeed long desired it. Is this so in the books? And if she did take the Ring, would she have become more powerful than Sauron? Would she have become as terrible, and evil as she proclaims she would? One wonders what a Ring of Power could do in good hands--Galadriel's mind seemed to be very powerful, not easily corruptible, her will and resolve very very strong--Sauron desired greatly to see into it and yet could not so long as he didn't have the One Ring. So, what effect would it have had on her given her strong will?

Similarly, what if Gandalf were to bear the Ring? Would he have become as strong as Sauron? Do you think he had a strong enough will to resist it? Or would he have fallen to evil?

And finally I've wondered how the Three Rings didn't effect their owners. The Seven given to the Dwarves made them greedier, hungrier for gold and mountain halls if I recall correctly; The Nine turned the Men who owned them into inhuman slaves of Sauron; But the Three do not seem to have much effected their owners--Why is this?
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