Will of the ring inconsistency

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Ben K.

I'm talking strictly from movie canon, but this is the part of AUJ that bugged me more than others.

Well, if you go bookwise, there is no such problem.

In the prologue of FOTR we are told that the One Ring is found by someone it did not intend (though it intended to ditch Gollum). The problem is in AUJ, Bilbo falls over and the ring does that unlikely but obviously intended dropping onto Bilbo's finger that happened to Frodo in Bree.

Does this make sense to anyone else?

I suppose the Ring wants to be found. Preferably by some orc/goblin/troll chief, but any creature would do. It did not want to be found by someone who's nearly Gandalf's best friend. And this is the part that you find problematic. I suppose that if you really want to make an excuse for the movie, you could say that Bilbo was better than no one: Gollum did a pretty good job of keeping the Ring safe when it did not want to run away.

To be honest, though, I don't think that's much of an excuse. I suppose the movie makers just overlooked that detail.

What bothers me even more about the finding of the Ring is that in FOTR there is such a nice little flashback scene of Bilbo finding it, which was nothing like AUJ. This is the one part I wanted them to keep from LOTR. I think that the way it is shown in FOTR is truer to Bilbo finding the Ring against it's will - not when it's smiling at him and shining brighter than Sting.