So what is the ring supposed to represent?

Burden

Power for its own sake. Greed and corruption follow from that.

The Jews. They seem useful at first, but they must be cast into the fire for peace to return.

Lust for power.

Meth

Your eternal virginity.

No one is after his virginity though.

his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.

God's failure. Illuvatar ultimately needs to push Gollum into the lava of Mount Doom and commit murder to finally defeat Sauron. Sauron's plan was in fact unbeatable without divine intervention. Illuvatar would have pushed Frodo, Sam, or Aragorn himself in. It didn't matter. What mattered is the ring needed to be destroyed and no one could do it. They could merely get it to the cliff near the lava and Illuvatar would need to then push them in and kill them to defeat Sauron.

wish i didn't know but it's quite fitting
i wish the ring had never come to me

The Simarils likely used a similar magic and may have been more powerful which was why they were coveted by everyone and Feanor ultimately burned to ash on his death rather than leaving a corpse like most elves.

Sauron was an utter scrub and had no chance against Eru is Eru actually gave a shit. In terms of power level Sauron is just dark Gandalf

Saruman was trying to

Taxes

It represents original sin. It's Catholic dogma that we inherit the guilt of the sin of Adam. Frodo is the individual who must unfairly make the ultimate sacrifice for that sin.

Circumcision scar.

The pursuit of domination destroys your soul, no matter who you are and what you imagine you intend to do with that dominion.

>God's failure
Sauron was defeated ultimately by tiny hobbits combined with his corrupting influence leading that gave him power ironically causing his own defeat. Eru beat Sauron through perfect pottery

A magic ring for bilbo to find in a cave to let him be useful. After that various forms of power and the evil that lust for it causes.

The One Ring represents virginity. Sauron, being a perma-virgin volcel, created the ring in order to protect the ideals he inherited from Morgoth.
The Fellowship sets out on their quest, in a very aggressive and hateful incel manner, to tear down the ultimate embodiment of purity, and rape everything it stands for.

After the rings destruction, the incel fellowship lose their virginities. Aragorn and Sam get their qt.14 gfs. Merry and Pippin, Gimli and Legolas get married. Gandalf, Frodo, and Bilbo sail west to rape the pristine lands of Aman.

>“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.”

Power. Being at the top. Dictatorial powers.
They all promised to use it for good remember?
But then power gets to their heads...

>A Baggins? Sure I know a Baggins. He's over there, Frodo Baggins!
What the fuck was his problem?

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It can't be real. No one can dislike allegory.

The unified German Empire obviously. Anglos that time were very wary of german autism. Major german states were rings and the german empire was the ring ruling them all. There were talks of dissolving germany after ww1 which was represented by isildur not destroying the ring parallel to the Allies not dissolving germany totally.

jerking off. it literally cannot be stopped in the end, even at the mouth of the volcano.

poor pip. he probably went on to have a daughter too.

Is there any hobbit porn out there?

>supposed to represent
Tolkien was very vocal about his fervent hatred of allegory. He wanted his stories to be applicable to life but not specifically allegorical in nature. So the ring represents any power with a corruptible element to it, there is no single thing it's meant to represent.

>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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The ties that bind.

because sauron was trained in arts and crafts by Aule the celestial being of craft. The god of crafting anything taught Sauron whats up. Anyone who would even attempt to make something like Sauron would only fail and crave the one ring. Saurman for example created his own ring and it destroyed his path.

Edith was quite hilariously bitchy in her attitude to JRRT's friends and the amount of time he spent with them.

Power

The ring = capitalism
the fellowship = collectivism
mordor = united states
saruman = britain
elves = bolsheviks
frodo and sam = marx and engels
eye of sauron = echelon

Lol this is probably true mind if I repost it on chapotraphouse?

a vagina

>Eru beat Sauron through perfect pottery
99% true, the hobbits just fell short by a couple feet and Eru made Gollum trip off the ledge to make up for the last minute falter by Frodo. If he hadn't, Gollum would have scampered away only for the Ringwraiths to catch him and deliver the ring to Sauron. So yes, Divine intervention was needed to beat Sauron in the end, if Eru said he wasn't gonna do shit to help, and didn't push Gollum off the edge, Sauron would have enforced perfect order upon Middle Earth. Damn shame

Frodo's virgin anus

please do friend!

All suffering comes from desire.

If sauron regained the ring, the Valar would have intervened one last time. There is absolutely no way they would have left middle earth to Sauron.

t. never been beaten

Probably would have stepped in yeah, but again, that's them acting against the explicit promise of the Valar that they'd never interfere with middle Earth after the Morgoth deal. Basically the same deal as Eru stepping in, except far messier and a higher death count

I agree, the Valar we're never going to let Sauron gain dominion over middle earth, especially after sending the Istari to help counter Sauron. They tried an indirect approach, if it failed, Tulkas would be knocking on the black gate.

"Let the Lord of the Black Land come forth so I am wrestle him into submission!"
You right tho

+1

beaten?

You've never been physically attacked.
I'm inclined to agree based on what he was responding to

I have actually. What, you can't understand how a desire for control or status leads people to attack others?

it's an ancient Buddhist proverb you dumb faggot

Tolkien ripped the story of Wagner (Der Ring des Nibelungen). In Wagner's epic, the ring represents: Power. Simple as that.
Of course the germanic saga is much older than Wagner too. The ring appears first in the Nibelungensaga.

why wasnt sauron invisible while wearing the ring

He was, the ring just doesn't make your clothes invisible. It's only an inconsistency in the movies, in the books Frodo and Bilbo stripped naked whenever they used the ring.

Did Aule not care at all that he was teaching someone who is evil?

the ringwraiths are a lot cooler knowing this, the witch king too

Are the Infinity Stones stronger than the Ring?

He wasn't "evil" then.

The ring was destroyed because Bilbo and Frodo showed mercy to Gollum allowing the chain of events leading to mount doom to occur, Eru simply sealed the web of fate/doom that the Hobbits had created through their own innate goodness.

It's ideology, plain and simple. The book describes the ring as "small and perfect". These two words are very important.
The non-vulgar definition of perfection is "something that is pure act". Everything in the universe either is - act - or can be - potency. For example, you are alive in act and dead in potency. The ring being perfect means that it can't be anything else.

Now, notice how everyone in possession of The Ring wants to twist the world into something that they deem the right thing? Galadriel wants to make Lothlorien beautiful and ever-lasting, Boromir wants to use The Ring as a weapon and Sam wants to make Mordor into a garden (kek).

The temptation of the One Ring is that it is a simple explanation for the world. A "small" and "perfect" definition of the reality. It's a critique of all the ideologies popping and trying to simplify the complexities of the world in simple terms and damned be the consequences and those who get in the way.
>Weapon for the warrior
>Kingdom for the queen
>Garden for the gardener

Frodo is resistant to The Ring because he is complacent and has no idealisms or desire to change the world. So is Sam and the rest of the Hobbits. It's not a simple lack of ambition, but rather an acceptance of reality instead of the will to oversimplify the world and force things to fit.

As a catholic, Tolkien drew inspiration from Chesterton and Orthodoxy is a notable inspiration for the concepts in the book. In the first chapter of the book, Chesterton openly discusses that madness is basically reasoning within a small amount of information and locking yourself away from the everything else until the point where you can't accept that these things exist and you alienate yourself from the rest of the world. Much like the One Ring, you get consumed by your delusion

Isn't this part of his justification that elements in the story did not...at all...represent anything about world war 2. Despite being written at the time of world war 2.