Self-Esteem Problem?

[Oddwen]

I also have come to belive that the Ring was abused as a youngling.

Now that's funny, because I have always believed that the Ring is a very spoiled child. Instead of no self esteem, it's got self esteem coming out of its proverbial ears.

I mean really: you're the only "child" (Hence also the "only child" syndrome) of a really powerful lord who lives for you, wars were fought over your posession, etc.

The reason it made everyone so darn icky was no doubt due to the fact that it was angry at being kidnapped. There it was, sitting on Papa Sauron's hand, doing what it did best, and up comes this ugly beardy man with a knife and hurts Daddy and carts it off. Unfortuately, the rescue party bungled things up horribly and the poor little Precious got lost...wouldn't you be resentful?

Plus the fact that it was in the posession of, shall we say lesser mortals, long enough to build up a deep-seated resentment for everyone.

And then the only beings who may have been equal to Pop blatantly refused you, that's just mean.

Any one of these things is enough reason to pronounce the Precious "mentally unstable", which I think it is.