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- From: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro)
- Subject: Re: Technology and Morality in LOTR
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:20:13 GMT
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- In article <steph.724635365@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
- >>steph@perseus.cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
- >>>I think the ring is an *entity*, trapped in an object. Not passive, and
- >>>possessed of semi-free will.
- >>
- >>It's certainly not an entity of it's own. Like the Elven rings, it is at
- >>least partly a piece of Sauron's own innate power. The advantage of the
- >
- >I disagree -- while I do think it has part of Sauron's power, I don't believe
- >it is simply a tool for expansion of power. As a matter of fact, I see very
- >little evidence that the Ring ever tried to get back to Sauron. It would
- >have been far happier with a suitable tool it could dominate (like Boromir)
- >than with the domineering Lord of the Rings. And in the end, it was the Ring's
- >own pride that caused its destruction.
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- Aha! The Ring is obviously another of Stormbringer's incarnations.... :-)
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