what if Sam had kept the ring?!!!!!

[Eurytus]

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Tolkien is absolutely clear on this point in his Letters. He stated that no being within Arda could have escaped the corruption of the Ring. He blankly stated that Frodo was given an impossible task, one that no one would have been able to accomplish.
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Actually, that's not quite right. The Ring had no power over Tom Bombadil.

Actually that is something we do not know. Tolkien’s point in his letters was not so much that no-one could resist the Ring. It was that absolutely no-one could have resisted the Ring at the Cracks of Doom where it’s influence was at its strongest.

We know that Bombadil’s power was pretty much total within the borders of the Old Forest but it is far less certain that it would have been so strong within Mordor and certainly not at the Crack of Doom.