Sauron puts the ring on and it turns him into a guy

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I wish the films played this up more. It'd silence the idiots who ask why Sauron didn't guard the Cracks of Doom.
He was so arrogant, so sure that no one could resist the temptation of the ring that the thought never entered his mind that anyone would try to destroy it.
Ironically Sauron was right, not even Frodo could resist the ring in the end and it took literal divine intervention for the ring to be destroyed.

So it wasn't hubris from his part but from the butthurt of Eru.

He tied most of his power to the ring, and pretty much put a back door hack in the rest of them that he could mind control the other wearers, then gave them as gifts to the other kingdoms to try to control the world.

That's why he wanted it back so bad. He pretty much couldn't exist without it after being killed physically - much the same way gandalf died and came back.

They are essentially the same kind of being. Angels is how we would think of them. Angels that could wear human skins.

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>it took literal divine intervention for the ring to be destroyed

The temptation of the ring is the reason the ring was destroyed. If Smegol & Frodo weren't so corrupted by the ring then it would have never been destroyed. It would have never been thrown into the depths of Mount Doom.

>he doesn't know
Gollum didn't slip, he was literally pushed by god

i really gotta reread lotr now cus i dont remember this

As with most things, it's mostly from his letters that we know this.
Personally I fucking hate it and willfully ignore it, like all but the most hardcore Tolkienfags.

>main villain is stupid
Whoa, such great writing

why wasnt this explained in the movie then
why do i have to read some fucking meme book just to be told this
tolkien was a fucking hack

he wasn't stupid.
Totally opposite, after Arragorn convinced him that he have a ring Sauron forced preparation for a second strike at Gondor to finish the threat

You know this yet haven’t read the books. Atleast try to not sound like a retard please.

speaking of things you don't know unless you read the books
today I learned that after bilbo's party, gandalf disappeared for 17 years to do research, all the while Frodo was chilling in the shire with the ring. And then he comes back and Frodo still doesn't leave for like, a month because he's lazy.

>tolkien was a fucking hack
Because Tolkien planned the movie trilogy and released the books 50 years prior as supplementary material. Gotcha.

>speaking of things you don't know unless you read the books
More like things the movies simply do not adapt.

Idk.. It's a good question. I think explaining just a bit of the second age would add much more wait to everything that happens. Because ultimately the LOTRs is about Sauron's fall. He's basically the devils kid. He turns into what we see at the start of the first film because of what happens in the second age when he makes the rings.

But I guess they thought.. "we already have so much shit to explain and nobody has done it on this level before.. so we don't need to add too much.."

Or they thought people were stupid.

BUT one thing to remember is the audience for this film was the book readers. LOTRs was basically a slowly cult status novel for 50 some odd years. It wove it's way into the culture because people read it. Most everybody at the time had read the books as part of growing up.

Zoomers just don't read.

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>he didn't put a giant door because he was arrogant
more like a retard

Should I go to watch the Tolkien movie today?

>literally deus ex
BRAVO TOLKEIN

LITERARY GENIUS! TELL US MORE ABOVE THE ELVES!

Is that another one of those leftist movies that makes the writer out to be a bad guy because he was white and male and his son didn't like his books?

I don't know. It's directed by autistic finn so chances are it's ok. It's supposed to be a movie about friendship, love and bravery.

The Tolkien estate has disavowed the movie. That's enough for me to never see it. Making a movie like that without the assent and cooperation of his living heirs and relatives is such a disrespectful thing to do.

Have you heard of the high elves?

What were the rings made from. Why does some lava and metal give a ring shaped object a magical quality.

The same estate with the greedy grandchildren on the helm that allowed Hobbit movies to happen and sold out to Amazon?

youtube.com/watch?v=qN80_7rNmcE

why didn't they just fly the ring to mount doom?

But the hobbit movies were good, except maybe the third one but still a solid 7/10.

>and sold out to amazon

No niggers yet, love for the source material, set in the second age, no meme prequels when aragorn was a kid. Seems like kino so far. Might end up being better than GoT, don't sleep on it.

Because why fly them there in hours if u can walk for years and millions die in wars. Then u also have time for taxes

>>sauron puts the ring on and it turns him into a guy
Not how it works.

The ring is quite underwhelming if you look at its track record. Even Sauron never used it to do all that much.

As I said, Sauron wove his own power into them with necromancy. Very similar to the shit that Rowling pulled of with Voldermorts soul shard things. But it was more of an evil right of magic, that as I said had a back door hack to anybody who wore them. Sauron's main "power" was being a liar and charismatic. In the second age he was a fair beautiful form and he gave the rings as gifts to all the kings. (He had sided with the dark lord in the first age but was able to talk his way out of full blame)

So he did this as a way to appear kind and helpful, but he was really still trying to take over the world.

So yes, Tolkiens "magic" isn't like D&D magic. It's very natural and woven into the elements of willpower and aspect. Lots of descriptions in the book of Gandalf "growing" in power in a room when he got pissed. Basically these veils that hid more powerful beings.

But I digress.

That's why the ring called to Sauron and he had such a connection to it. It was his master control key to all the other rings of power.

None of tolkiens magic is lightening bolts or "spells" as gamers think of them.

Everything was a subtle push of the will. For example Gandalfs ring was a fire ring but basically made him pure and incorruptible. A light in the darkness.

Sauron's ring was more of a liar and had the invisibility thing. I think the invisibility thing was just a protection woven in by Sauron to make it easier to hide or get back to him, as the ring was basically his willpower and evil concentrated.

Anyway, as I mentioned in other posts the magic is very low-key

what about the fight scene with Gandalf and Saruman

In the books it was basically described as a contest of wills, and wasn't really described that much at all. Tolkien didn't really write "action scenes". He just described things like a thriller as they unfolded.

At any rate, It didn't exist that way in any form in the novel and was fabricated for the same people that wanted to see legolas surf down a dead elephant and the same people who liked dwarf tossing jokes.

It's funny though.. The films are kind of rewriting the mythology of the books. again, zoomers don't read.

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I read somewhere that the ring "pushed" hobbits into an ethereal realm because of its power, but it did not do the same to beings of higher power like Sauron.

Granted Tolkien kind of just retconned the one ring into the story as Bilbo's magic invisibility ring so I imagine the explanation isn't that great.

Ring bearers got a pardon and were allowed to live in the deathless lands because of their burden. That's all.

Sauron was immortal just like Gandalf.

No I mean the invisibility was because they were pushed into the dimension that you see when the hobbits put on the ring in the films, where the ring wraiths can see them and stuff

What are the scenes where we hear Sauron speak in the movies?
For certain that time the ring slips on Frodo while they're in Bree
Also that time Gandalf uses the dark language while saying the ring's inscription (one ring to rule them all, one ring.....) while they're in RIvendell
any other examples? Can't remember them atm

>only planet in the universe where free will is a thing
>god still forces the outcome the way he wants it to be

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Oh yeah I don't think that was really in the books. I need to reread them. I don't remember reading descriptions if a shadow land in the books. It was more metaphysical and sauron could feel it. and the cartoon went with it and so did the film's.

IDK I haven't read them in years

Free will only exists for Men, to counterbalance that Eru Iluvatar made them mortal and subject to illness, old age, etc