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3 years ago by casmael to c/lotrmemes

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They could have fitted the whole ring / tape / mouse assembly into a small paper bag Aragorn could have kept it in his jacket and fed it little bits of lembas on the way how lovely x

who8mydamnoreos 197 points 3 years ago

Sam did bear the weight of the ring, its hard to convey in the movie but the book makes it clear. Sam just had an iron will.

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CaptainBlagbird 99 points 3 years ago

AND he hadn't already been carrying the ring the whole fucking way like Frodo did!

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chuckleslord 66 points 3 years ago

It's both an iron will and a life goal that isn't really susceptible to corruption. The ring takes the thing you want most and connects itself to that in your mind, twisting your goals to accomplish what it wants.

I'm not really certain what value being temporarily invisible has when all you want to do is garden. Hell, I don't even think a giant army or conquering the whole world would help either. Just means a more overwhelming garden, which defeats the point.

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CitizenKong 83 points 3 years ago

I mean that's the reason Hobbits in general can withstand the Ring longer than any other race of Middle Earth. They just want a quiet life without any fuss and that's pretty much the opposite of what the Ring can promise them.

Ring: I can make you rich!

Hobbit: Eh, than my cousins will pester me all day.

Ring: I can make you strong!

Hobbit: What for? I have an ox for that.

Ring: I can make you king of all!

Hobbit: That's even worse than rich!

Ring: Exasperated sigh

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Anticorp 39 points 3 years ago

Ring: Fine! I can give you third breakfast!

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SpaceCowboy 20 points 3 years ago

But I'm busy eating elevenses right now! Maybe we can have third breakfast tomorrow?

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Kolanaki 45 points 3 years ago

He was really just sick and fucking tired of the Lembas bread that much.

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who8mydamnoreos 43 points 3 years ago

Really the whole story of Sam could be boiled down to drive of a man who really wanted to get back to a life of a good women and great food.

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Dagnet 14 points 3 years ago

Great food = potatoes

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who8mydamnoreos 5 points 3 years ago

Humble but great

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HotDogFingies 4 points 3 years ago

Mushrooms, really.

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oldGregg 3 points 3 years ago

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s_s 2 points 3 years ago

Needed more pipeweed to get through it.

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s_s 11 points 3 years ago

Sam is the main character in the book

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eee 3 points 3 years ago

So instead of sending Sam, the whole Shire should have taken the trio together and just passed the ring back and forth amongst like 10 people?

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who8mydamnoreos 2 points 3 years ago

All you have to do is read the first book to realize why that wouldn’t work.

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eee 2 points 3 years ago

Sir this is a Wendy's meme sub

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who8mydamnoreos -3 points 3 years ago

Hard to tell when its not funny.

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vankappa 118 points 3 years ago

no it's cause Sam was a fucking saint

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yukichigai 26 points 3 years ago

This is my headcanon and I cannot be convinced otherwise.

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casmael 12 points 3 years ago

Yeah sam is the true king imo 👑

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Sylvartas 4 points 3 years ago

I mean, I haven't read the books in a while now, but iirc they make this pretty damn clear

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HotDogFingies 7 points 3 years ago

He really was, though. Both Frodo and Bilbo carried the weight better than any other had before them, but they were still negatively impacted by it. But not Sam. Truly a goldenhearted being.

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lobut 101 points 3 years ago

I thought Sam did put on the ring in the books.

It also affected Boromir just being around it.

Didn't Smeagol kill a friend just to have it before even wearing it?

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fckreddit 99 points 3 years ago

Yes. Basically, Sam was practically only one in the Fellowship who could resist the temptations of The Ring, because he had really simple desires.

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cobysev 35 points 3 years ago

I dunno... he didn't have it for very long in the films, then hesitated when Frodo asked for it back. He resisted the ring, but it still affected him a little bit.

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DaCookeyMonsta 45 points 3 years ago

It was more a concern for Frodo as Frodo was desperatefor the ring at the time.

In the book it shows you how the ring attempted to corrupt him and he kind of went "meh" at it.

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casmael 11 points 3 years ago

How did the ring attempt to corrupt ol’ Samwise?

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Acedelgado 6 points 3 years ago

The animated films had a segment of when Sam had the ring and was going to rescue Frodo, and it tempted him that he could use its power to set the world right. I kind of wish Peter Jackson would've done something similar.

https://youtu.be/1PE-5ETUtW4

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nieceandtows 7 points 3 years ago

Sam Bombadil

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Anticorp 63 points 3 years ago

The mouse definitely would have escaped and ran straight to Sauron.

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CeruleanRuin 25 points 3 years ago

Yep. This particular configuration only works because of Sam's devotion to Frodo.

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Rodeo 5 points 3 years ago

We need more configurations.

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rxin 1 point 3 years ago

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corship 57 points 3 years ago

Sam just had the strength to resist the ring.

He didn't crave for power, but only for food and peace.

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tigeruppercut 9 points 3 years ago

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Rodeo 5 points 3 years ago

You mean PO-TAY-TOES?

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MajorMajormajormajor 5 points 3 years ago

Boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a stew!

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foo 1 point 3 years ago

Or hobbit poontang

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Comment105 3 points 3 years ago

Sam had hobbit pussy eager at the ring of a bell if he'd have wanted, he wasn't lacking.

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themeatbridge 46 points 3 years ago

Yes, but through that mouse, the ring would wield a power too squeak and scratch to imagine.

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bird 9 points 3 years ago

Mouse would escape the tape and stick its head through the ring. Then you have an invisible mouse to rule them all to deal with. The whole of Middle Earth would be absolutely overrun with mice

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Rastenor 45 points 3 years ago

Consider this: Frodo is the mouse

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Muun 29 points 3 years ago

Yup. As a maiar, this is basically what Gandalf did.

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SpaceNoodle 4 points 3 years ago

This is a maiar?

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atrielienz 10 points 3 years ago

Tolkien stated that "Maia is the name of the Kin of the Valar, but especially of those of lesser power than the 9 great rulers". In the Valaquenta, Tolkien wrote that the Maiar are "spirits whose being also began before the world, of the same order as the Valar but of less degree".

Basically the same thing Sauron was before he made the rings and corrupted himself for power.

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SpaceNoodle 4 points 3 years ago

So Gandalf did a maiar?

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fsxylo 35 points 3 years ago

Was magic ring ever explained on a technical level? I thought all we know is it wants to be with sauron and it makes angels shit themselves.

For all we know putting it on a mouse gives everyone mouse nightmares and make them worship the mouse as mouse king before they take it straight to sauron.

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NigelFrobisher 21 points 3 years ago

Do you not have the Official Middle Earth Technical Manual?

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Nouveau_Burnswick 8 points 3 years ago

I've got the Original Equipment Manufacturer's factory service manual.

The OEMOMEFSM.

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BilboBargains 32 points 3 years ago

But that mouse would have become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

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Viking_Hippie 20 points 3 years ago

And would sing 🎵 HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY! 🎵

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this_1_is_mine 3 points 3 years ago

Mighty mouse. Faster than a bullet and stronger than a locomotive.

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soupspoon 20 points 3 years ago

The mouse would have chewed through the pocket and run away as soon as it could

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FuntyMcCraiger 11 points 3 years ago

Or possibly climb the nearest thing to get eaten by a bird, kinda like what Frodo did with the nazgul.

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Doug 4 points 3 years ago

Frodo ate a Nazgûl?

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ASeriesOfPoorChoices 3 points 3 years ago

They're surprisingly low calorie.

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Tyfud 19 points 3 years ago

*affected

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ChaoticEntropy 18 points 3 years ago

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Ulv 5 points 3 years ago

Its easier too carry a depressed mouse than a depressed halfman

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ChaoticEntropy 3 points 3 years ago

I'm going to need to see the numbers.

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Daisyifyoudo 15 points 3 years ago

Yes. There could have been a thousand things that could of happened and then we wouldn't have had this book, or the trilogy, or the landscape of modern day fantasy as we know it.

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waybreadenthusiast 16 points 3 years ago

could've

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CarbonatedPastaSauce 16 points 3 years ago

Impressive that he got it correct and incorrect in the same sentence.

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Daisyifyoudo 3 points 3 years ago

100% agree lol

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slugo 12 points 3 years ago

The ring shrinks down to fit the mouse sized knuckle. After disappearing, the mouse would have hopped on on of those massive eagles and flown away from the volcano.

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SkaveRat 2 points 3 years ago

"so long, suckers!"

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marcos 12 points 3 years ago

Until the mouse kills all of them.

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nyoooom 9 points 3 years ago

I suspect it's more a question of proximity, the one not carrying it is much further and thus much less affected by it

If you carry the mouse, then it's almost as if you're carrying it yourself

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raoul 9 points 3 years ago

They should have carried an eagle with the ring attached to him.

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Swedneck 2 points 3 years ago

so just tie it to a stick and hold it in front of yourself

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qwertyqwertyqwerty 8 points 3 years ago

Could they have just used a stick to carry it then?

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brihuang95 7 points 3 years ago

no they should have just taped the mouse to an eagle

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qwertyqwertyqwerty 2 points 3 years ago

Perfection

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randon31415 8 points 3 years ago

Gets to mount Doom, chucks mouse into volcano.

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casmael 3 points 3 years ago

Adorable until it isn’t 🥰

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NigelFrobisher 7 points 3 years ago

They could tie the ring to a balloon and push it along.

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Cabrio 5 points 3 years ago

They could just tie it to a long string and drag it.

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hh93 2 points 3 years ago

Tie the hands of two people together and put the ring on the rope hanging in the middle.

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beebarfbadger 5 points 3 years ago

Cut to the palace of Mausron the Terrible I: "And that's how we overthrew the apes and founded our perfect paradise, which I now rule with my tiny, iron adorable fist."

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GrammatonCleric 5 points 3 years ago

Ah yes, tape, the cornerstone of every Hobbit's hole.

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Siethron 3 points 3 years ago

Did you read the title?

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GrammatonCleric 6 points 3 years ago

invents tape, then tapes your mouth shut

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EvilEyedPanda 3 points 3 years ago

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casmael 3 points 3 years ago

Yooooo Tom cardy

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Lemjukes 2 points 3 years ago

Better yet, start the battle of pelannor fields as usual, cept you give that paper bag to Gwaihir and have him drop that shit on Mt doom like a gahdamn b52. NnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnerrrroooooomKABOOM. Job done.

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casmael 2 points 3 years ago

I’m imagining a sped up montage and then a record scratch “yup that’s me, in the paper bag. You’re probably wondering how I ended up here…”

fortunate son starts playing

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sturmblast 1 point 3 years ago

tape did not exist in this era of fantasy.... Sam could do this because he was pure of heart

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