Was the ring a metaphor for something?

It just turns you invisible and you see things in trails, like when you eat acid.

I don't get it.

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Yeah its a metaphor for aids. You see, Sauron contracts it from breeding with orcs, he passes it onto isildur who passes it onto Gollum who gives it to Bilbo who gives it to Frodo who goes to mount doom to commit suicide but realizes he must learn to live with it and ultimately leaves the lands at peace

The ring represents masturbation.

It was a metaphor for rings that turn you invisible

Just because you say something isn't allegorical or metaphorical, doesn't mean that you can magically handwave literary analysis of your story.

We wuz rangz

all it did was turn the hobbits invisible because they weren't powerful enough to use it to it's full potential. If Gandalf had put it on he could have use it to wipe out saurons armies easily, but it would have corrupted him. I don't know why more people don't understand this

It's not a metaphor for anything specific

>I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

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Because most people are brainlets and assume all it does is turn people invisible, even though the prologue to the whole trilogy contradicts that notion.

It wasn't really a metaphor, it just represented power. Everyone desires it, but eventually power will corrupt the individual.

As far as I recall the movies don't show the ring doing anything other than invisibility and don't say what Sauron does with it. He just "uses it's power". So you don't see any crazy power, aren't told of any crazy power, you just have to infer that it has the potential for it with other characters.

The Apex of Based

Throwing Sauron into the movie prologue was a good idea, made him look powerful while establishing that most of it was the ring.

At what point does it stop being literary analysis and start being projection of your own ideas into other people's work?

sounds like false advertising.
in reality the ring, sold as 'the most powerful thing in the world that could bring down everything and everyone', is just a shitty cursed invisibility ring.
>lol no returns, i never specified exactly what it does
or are you saying hobbits would choose to be invisible because they are dishonest little thieving pikies.

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When the dwarves needed a world-class thief, the first place they went was the shire.

He's knocking like 5 guys away. In a world with orcs and giants and shit why can't the leader of the army of evil be really physically strong?

when they are putting together a team.
hobbits don't look stealthy though, big, clumsy feet, loud squeaky voices, and not particularly swift.
are all the ones present in the films rejects, and the real master thieves are elsewhere

Master thieves usually don't advertise. You don't see them? Means they're doing it right.

sounds like more snake oil.
an 'all powerful' ring, which just makes you invisible but turn into a goblin if you wear it too much.
now 'master thieves' that aren't seen, or ever shown.

Obviously talking about absolute power

>every ring bearer was a male
>not a single one did any pervy shit with it
most unrealistic shit ever, tolkien was a hack

Frodo and Legolas and Bard's son Bain are relentlessly handsome.

power

he still treated elves as angels and orcs as the collective evils of mankind, so even he dealt in allegory from time to time.

It represents video games and anime. It's 1:1 in what it does to nerds and Gollum.

>he still treated elves as angels

t. has literally not ever read a page of Tolkien

More like the ancient patriarchs like Samson. Maia were the angels.

alright, disregard that part, I'm retarded.

What power did Gollum have?

Immortality.

Isn't it just Alberich's ring from Der Ring des Nibelungen? Considering Tolkien studied literature and high art, and the fact that he fluently spoke German thanks to his mother, then I'm sure he would've seen Wagner's opera which is based on Germanic and Nordic mythology. Hell, the slaying of Smaug and taking his treasure is already taken from Sigurd/Siegfried's slaying of Fafnir.

In the story, Alberich had forsaken all love and kindness in order to obtain the rhine's gold, which he used to forge his ring. When Wotan (German name for Odin) stole the ring from him, Alberich put a horrible curse on the ring so that all who obtained it would be destined to suffer until it returned to either him or the Rhinemaidens.

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Why didn't Frodo hide the ring in his asshole?