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Re: [Ultra-Tech/Fantasy] The One Ring Invisibility vs. TL9 Hyperspectral Goggles?
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09-28-2015, 09:04 PM | #52 | |
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Re: [Ultra-Tech/Fantasy] The One Ring Invisibility vs. TL9 Hyperspectral Goggles?
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Tolkien did indeed base the Shire, to a certain degree, on rural England around the turn of the 19/20C, but it was not that he thought they were idyllic. He did think that lifestyle had some positive elements, but he also thought they were self-absorbed and often small-minded, too. He incorporated that into the Hobbits of the Shire as well. Note that Sam Gamgee is noble of spirit, courageous, capable of great love...and also suspicious of anything different, too quick to judge others, and (at least initially) small minded. Hobbits' strength, as a rule, is precisely their lack of desire for greatness and strength. |
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09-28-2015, 09:22 PM | #53 | |
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Given that, the scenario you give is not necessarily implausible and might be worth doing if you feel like it.
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09-28-2015, 09:30 PM | #54 | |
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What it didn't create is a need to rule the world.
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09-28-2015, 09:57 PM | #55 |
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Re: [Ultra-Tech/Fantasy] The One Ring Invisibility vs. TL9 Hyperspectral Goggles?
Even among those who resist the lure of The One Ring, there's generally a "get it away from me!" vibe. Gandalf and Gladriel both resit it, but don't even want to look at the thing afterward. Everyone who actually touches it, goes batty in the end, except Sam (who gets rid of it as soon as he can). These people are the heroes of their age and they win out by getting the heck away from the thing.
Using one's own will to wrest control of the Ring isn't something that seems at all feasible. However, if I were using The One Ring in a campaign, I'd definitely lie to my players and tell them that it was. |
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09-28-2015, 11:14 PM | #57 | |
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09-29-2015, 01:47 AM | #58 |
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Which shows just how little Tolkien knew about garderning and gardners. They're just as petty, envious, and full of one upmanship as any regional politicians.
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09-29-2015, 11:59 AM | #59 | |
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But yes, there is nothing virtuous about poverty any more then there is anything virtuous about power; it is what you do with it that matters. But I guess it was just Sam that knew that there was something funny about being the greatest gardener in Middle Earth. I suppose hypothetically an Emperor who really did know that his position was still not much above that of the greatest gardener in Middle Earth would laugh too. Remember in Magician's Nephew how when the cabby was made King of Narnia one of the things he was most pleased with was not being a King but that he could now talk to his horse?
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09-29-2015, 08:05 PM | #60 |
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His greatest ambitions and dreams always revolved around helping, not controlling, ordering, or possessing.
That would have been downright inconceivable to the ring/Sauron.
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