Missing Fingers

[littlemanpoet]

Originally posted by Rhudladion:
<STRONG>Anyone find it interesting that the only way the ring is ever forced from a bearer is by cutting off the finger of the bearer? </STRONG>

I don't know if this really amounts to an exception, but Isildur is killed and the Ring slips off his finger, having a will of its own. Forced? Maybe not, but he loses it and dies into the bargain.