The great ruling ring of power has MANY powers...to describe it in full detail would be terrable long and many things would be arguable but to sum it up for you...The ruling ring increases what your good at. IE: Sauron, who is courptable made the ring to control all other rings...nine rings for humans...nine human kingdomes...You know the easterlings and southernlings? Part of the reason he controls them is beacuse of the one ring...he would control gondor too if not for the fact that gondor was the only country that had both the will and military power to fight off sauron...at least delay his asailment. If gandalf got the ring not only would the ring beable to control one of the three elven rings which even great lord sauron could not...but once it returned to sauron, sauron would know of the other two rings. If aragorn for example got the ring...he would became the greatests leader of men and one of the most legendary fighters since the days of beor and beren. However one more power which is highly debated is to give/increase sorcery power. All you mental and physical ablitys would go up and you would beable to "Cast spells" like gandalf did with the door closing.
Finnaly I dont belive even denthor, faramir, boromir ect knew the TRUE powers of the ring. I belive they knew some but more like just that the ring was one kick ass peice of jewlary that could grant them great power and let there kingdome stay strong.
I have read the book and know how it is destroyed, I finished reading it in July but when I first saw the Fellowshipof the Ring film, I wondered to myself when they explain how the ring must be destroyed
"The ring was built in MountDoom, so their it must be destroyed"
I thought it would be well funny if Frodo,sam etc reached Mount Doom and threw the ring into the fire hells of mount doom and nothing happened, then all that travel/hell adventure would have been a waiste.
The Ring wields any weakling who tries to use it!
The only ones who could hope to wield the Ring to ANY extent would be those who ALREADY had a great innate skill of their own. When a hobbit wears the Ring, it controls him, turning him invisible. Sauron could wield it fully, so it did not make him invisible. Sauron could exist in both dimensions. The Ring wields any weakling who tries to wield it, only a strong being could hope to even begn to wield it. Sauron is the most powerful being still in Middle Earth. Sauron is bound up with the Ring, so while it lasts, he will justregenerate after any defeat, and won't suffer the long term affects of decay that afflict the evil, eg Saruman. The Ring is a symbol for infinity, for eternity.
Tom Bombadil was thrown into the story as an inconsistency. Tom is based on a doll in Tolkein's house. Bombadil is a spirit of nature and the Ring has no power over him. However, Tom would die if Sauron were to bring about an apocalypse and either destroy or render undead, everything living.
good question, i think that boromir and denethor expect that they would be able to weild the ring, use it to see the mind of there enemy, it would be a rallying call to all those that appose him, and give them strength in battle, but they do not have the power to do so, so most likely it would make them invisible only (and mad)
well, even if they knew they couldnt use the ring,. if gondor announced they had the weapon of the enemy, sauron would take heed of it, go after the ring perhaps, but other kingdoms, elves dwarves rest of men, would see that now there was a chance given to them and join gondor, more likely than not sauron would be defeated, i dont care how good his dark forces, against most of middle earth he would be defeated
Not faramir because he actually stopped himself in the end, but in the begining he was stupid. I believe that denethor is the stupidest of all for forcing Boromir to go, and the putting Faramir down all the time. Broke my heart wen i saw that seen. I actually relized why he was doing that to frodo and everything.