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I should know the answer to this after sitting through all 27 hrs of LOTR, but - the ring - "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,

Posted by kelly (aka kelly) Jun 2 '10, 13:38

one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

That was the very same ring that caused destruction to the person who held it, right? Nothing good came from holding onto that ring, right?

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well, I did lose my girlfriend shortly after getting the ring, but basically no major problems. -- nm - Sheldon Jun 2, 13:48
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Well, aside from invisibility. -- nm - Ender Jun 2, 13:42 3
- Oh, and extended life. -- nm - Roger More Jun 2, 13:43 2
  - And the scouring of your hometown. Oh, wait... -- nm - Ender Jun 2, 13:49
  - if you can call it "life" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 13:44
Well, not everyone... - nubby Jun 2, 13:41 15
- Here's why I'm asking. -- (link) - kelly Jun 2, 13:46 9
  - It's a fascinating weird mix of taking the movie way too seriously and still not getting the point of it. (nm) - musubi Jun 2, 13:50
  - marriage is kind of like selling your eternal soul to Sauron -- nm - wheezy Jun 2, 13:48
  - Binds the woman to you. Guys'll love it. -- nm - Mop (223 lbs) Jun 2, 13:48
  - you're not wrong, but some people are nuts. -- nm - TFox Jun 2, 13:47
  - You're correct. But dorks are dorks. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 13:47 4
    - Yeah, the ring being the reason the story even exists, they don't necessariliy see it as a bad thing -- nm - Guigue Jun 2, 13:49
    - And for a different kind of dork, they have palladium rings, which can presumably be used in a rudimentary ARK reactor -- nm - Roger More Jun 2, 13:48 1
      - Mine is a tungsten-carbide ring with a blue carbon fiber inlay. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 13:49
    - (A more weddingy inscription would be "There And Back Again") -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 13:47
- well, Sauron did get his fingers chopped off while he was wearing it. That wasn't good - Roger More Jun 2, 13:42 3
  - but Bilbo lived a hellaciously long time, Frodo got to see the world which he wouldn't have otherwise... -- nm - crash davis Jun 2, 13:43 2
    - This is true, people often don't promote the travel benefits associated with soul corruption. (nm) - musubi Jun 2, 13:48
    - Yeah, he got to see a lot of swamps, lava pits and gravelly mountains -- nm - Roger More Jun 2, 13:44
- exactly. - Beryllium Jun 2, 13:42
that is a glass half empty way of looking at it -- nm - crash davis Jun 2, 13:41
27 hours? wtf? -- nm - MDH Jun 2, 13:40 5
- She only watched the third one. -- nm - David Jun 2, 13:47
- well, it felt like 27 hrs. -- nm - kelly Jun 2, 13:42 2
  - Well, each of the three films has a 9-hour extended version, right? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 13:46 1
    - No! Jerks. -- nm - Shaun Jun 2, 13:47
- Seriously. It was like 54. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 2, 13:41
yes. -- nm - Roger More Jun 2, 13:40

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