The One Ring: power & influences [merged]

Can Anyone help me with this question i have, i have seen the LOTR movie a few times and i still havent found an answer, supposedly the One Ring is the most powerful of them all but all i have seen it do is turn whoever has it invisible, What Other Power does it has????? Is cool to turn invisible but i dont see whats the big deal if can only turn u invisible.

P.S- What are powers of the other 19 rings if anyone know? 😈

All the Great Rings have that power, I think.

The powers of the One Ring are left indeterminate- but clearly immense for those who know how to use it.

well it doesnt only turn you invisible, it turns you into a mad, greedy, powersick nutter over some time

it has the power to corrupt. that's why gandalf was affraid to take it..not that it would increase his abillities but that it would turn him to the dark side. Let's just say that the real power is only when it's in sauron's evil finger.

It WOULD increase Gandalf's power! Immensly! It would power up any who wielded it and understood it.

"With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly." Gandalf, FOTR.

I think he's right here, btw sauron does posses enormous strength in the battle where isildur "takes" the ring, it might just be his normal strength, I dunno but I assume the ring has something to do with that

course it has..he didn't make it for nothing..well..besides rulling all the other.
And i suspect what we see in that battle isn't the extent of his skill if he would've gotten the ring back.

only the one ring can make you invisable folks.none of the otheres do

narya(gandalfs ring) was the ring of fire

Nenya ( water)gladriel

vilya(air)elrond
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those who had them in their keeping could ward off the decay of time and postpone the weariness of the world".(silmarillion page 347.) 😮‍💨

finally a worthy answer but it still doesnt answer what the real powers of the One Ring are! thanks nonetheless

sorry you are right it does not answer your question .
the answer is I think very simple
The one ring has only one power in itself the only thing that it does is control the other rings,It has so much power in it in so as it can cotrol the other great rings of power.been sauron needs it back because it has most of his strength(power(evil)) in it. with it he will control the owners/powers of the other rings.
this may not be the right answer but i think it might be what do you think? 😮‍💨

it helps understands the rings powers but i still dont see why the humans in the movie would think it would help them against sauron if the only think it can do is turn them invisible, i would understand the rings powers in the hands of gandalf and the other wizards and the elfs but to me it would be useless to the humans since they cant do magic and it would do to them would be drive them mad. by the wayi hope i didnt sound rude on my previous answer it wasnt my intention.

no not rude at all 😉
Arogorn has power as he is a decedant of elves, if any where to use the ring it would corrupt them and turn them evil.
they would be able to use the ring each to his own abbilitys, gandalf would be a more powerful wizard,Arogorn a powerful leader of men as borromire wanted to be.

Originally posted by glorfindel
only the one ring can make you invisable folks.none of the otheres do

how do you know. Maybe it's the only one out of the elven, human adn dwarven (+ the one ring)

"there are many magic rings in this world , bilbo baggins, and none of them should be used likely."
gandalf - fotr

maybe it's the only one...but that's not clearly certiffied from that statement..or any other that i recall.
Or Gandalf would've known he has the ring of power from the first place.

Dexx is right and you are very wrong, Glorfindel. If only the One Ring caused invisibility, Gandalf would have recognised it at once and Sauron would not have had to have used the process of elimination that he did to know it was the One Ring.

Gandalf in FOTR refers to the Great Rings PLURAL when he talks of the long life they give, and how it is bad to use them to turn invisible.

point taken i will try harder next time (curse them).
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the one ring does corrupt, turn the wearer invisible, and it also talks. yeah, if u listen, it talks.

And here's what it says:

Ash nazg durbatulûk,
Ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk,
Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!

This is what is inscribed around the edges.

when it slips of ur finger then it corrupts u and change owner..

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Dexx is right and you are very wrong, Glorfindel. If only the One Ring caused invisibility, Gandalf would have recognised it at once and Sauron would not have had to have used the process of elimination that he did to know it was the One Ring.

Gandalf in FOTR refers to the Great Rings PLURAL when he talks of the long life they give, and how it is bad to use them to turn invisible.

just a thouht.
Gandalf did not know much about the rings at the time frodo got it as he had to go to gondor to find out about the writeing so at the point in question he neither knew about the writting OR the invisibility thing
what say?

the trip to gondor was just to confirm his STRONG suspicion. Don't forget those sauron's eye spasms.
he can't tell all the rings in the world by how they look, but at his age i'm sure he knows a GREAt deal about the rings...he carries one afterall - and he's supposed to be the wises of the istari.