He’s gonna try to have sex with a wraith. Gonna end up with a ghost paenus.
Anon gains a superpower
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Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 day ago
JoseALerma@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
god fucking damnit, I REALLY want to see this stupid episode but life keeps fucking us over.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Yreve emit ew tih mih htiw eht lugrom edalb, eh setalucaje. Eh seunitnoc gniggeb rof erom. Enon fo su era elbatrofmoc gnihcuot mih evila ro daed. M’I yrros ym drol.”
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is like getting texted by whatever made the video in Event Horizon
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glorious.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Doesn’t it work differently for different species or something? It wouldn’t turn a human invisible because it only turns hobbitis invisible. But it would definitely still alert the wraiths.
That’s my understanding of it but I’m probably wrong.
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It wouldn’t turn a human invisible because it only turns hobbitis invisible.
See: the intro to the first movie. Isildur, after his victory at Mt Doom, uses the Ring to turn invisible in attempts to escape a group of orcs that attacked his party.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 day ago
Had forgotten about that, I always tough it just gave power to the user, what power? That’s depends on the users desires and ambitions, and because Hobbits are not a lot into desires and ambitions, the ring wasn’t particularly powerful in them, neither had a lot of power to corrupt them.
FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
The one ring gives the wearer the power of what the wearer defines as power. Frodo turns invisible because for a hobbit not being noticed means safety. The ring tells Sam that he could plant as many Apple trees as he likes, even plastering whole middle earth.
In this moment the ring probably tells to Boromir that he could rebuild Gondor to old strength and he might be able to (before giving in to saurons influence).
theblips@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
I see this explanation very often but have not encountered textual evidence (either for or against this hypothesis). The feats we see from every ringbearer (be it the Sauron, the Witch King, Galadriel, Gandalf and even Frodo) can more easily be explained by the rings just enhancing magical feats of all kinds, and maybe the elven ones are better at preservation magic. I wouldn’t be surprised if I was wrong, though
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
The ring tells people lies though, no?
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Invisibility is incidental; it’s a side effect for those who do not exists in the unseen realm. It was created to dominate those who had the lesser rings of power; the dwarves proved too resilient, and the elves took theirs off before they could be influenced. The ring is a tool of domination, and enhances the bearer’s natural abilities. It may have allowed Aragorn for example, to inspire people to follow him as he became the next great dictator. It is a more subtle magic. In the books, Gandalf describes this process if he were to claim the ring; that he would build up a great kingdom to overthrow Sauron militarily and replace him as Middle Earth’s tyrant.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
It does, in fact, turn humans invisible too. Isildur being the obvious example, but even the nine rings given to humans had that effect, shifting them to the spiritual / unseen world. That’s a whole different ramble, but for now, let’s sum it up that there is an unseen world not everyone can sense and influence, but the Maiar (including Sauron) are inherently spiritual beings that took physical shape in the seen world in order to interact with it.
For Sauron, so much of his power was poured into the One Ring that he was no longer able to take physical form without it (though he evidently still had some ability to twist minds even without it). Through the Ring, he had also dominated the nine human Ring bearers and bound them to him, moving them into the spiritual world. Given that they were originally of the seen world, they could take physical form more easily than him, but as his power waned, so did theirs and they eventually disappeared until his power grew once more and allowed them to reappear.
The reason they could still “see” Frodo is that they were attuned to the unseen and could sense him there, with their power over it manifesting in them stabbing his physical form even though it was invisible to mortal eyes.
There is still the question of the Dwarven rings. They were forged first, and it’s possible they weren’t as refined yet, though the dwarves are also described as more resilient at resisting the dominating effect. My guess is that the fact they were created by Aulë, Smith of the Valar, rendered them less susceptible to the craft of a lesser spirit (Sauron), but I have no evidence.
theblips@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
Sauron still has a physical form during the events of LOTR. Frodo sees him through the tower window when walking towards Mount Doom, and Gollum remarks he was personally tortured by him, and that his hand has 4 fingers
charonn0@startrek.website 1 day ago
Generally it will work on any mortal except dwarves.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Why didnt the dwarves take the ring to Mordor?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
hot
theblips@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Can’t forget immortality, which is shown pretty clearly in the movies with Bilbo and obviously Gollum, but also:
The Ring enhances the wearers “presence” and ability to influence others. Sam observes in the books how elf-like and majestic Frodo has become by the time they get to Mordor due to carrying the ring. At around the same time as this scene, we see Frodo impose himself on Gollum and the book remarks how powerful he looks and how his words seem to influence Gollum.
Later on, when Sam is carrying the Ring, this effect is noticed even more clearly when the orcs see his shadow not as that of a small hobbit but that of a powerful elf lord
The effects we’ve seen are on the pretty low race of hobbits, and would be even greater in someone of numenorian descent, but assuming it stops at those: Boromir would become an immortal, ultra charismatic leader who can also become invisible to everyone but the Wraiths and other spirits, which he can pretty easily take on 1v1
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’ve always wanted to see what would have happened if Gandalf or Galadriel took the ring
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Well damn. This guy Middle Earths. Thanks for the lore drop