WHo in the fellowship would have tried to take the ring next?

[Kalimac]

I can't really picture any of them taking it. Good thing they all split up before being put to the test, hmm? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Maybe Tolkien didn't know the answer either.

If I had to pick one, I'd say Pippin, much as I like him. Not out of power-hungriness or out of malice or any of Boromir's "save my people" reasons, but because Pippin has that terrible curiosity that leads him into trouble so many times. Remember how with both the well and the Palantir he feels a "curious attraction" which won't let him sleep until he's tried the thing out. There's no explanation for the attraction, certainly Pippin isn't hoping to gain any sort of advantage from these things, but something in him compels him to do them. Same with the Ring - it's not too hard to picture Pippin, somewhere along, feeling such an insomniac desire just to try the Ring on and see what happens that he actually would try to take it from Frodo, of course with disastrous consequences.