in your statement that Frodo bore The Ring for such a long period compared to
Sam....yet still managed not to succumb to it until the very, very end.
One could argue that Gollum bore it much longer than Frodo and didn't succumb
to it's tendancy to make one lust for power. But Gollum, of course, was
of Hobbit-kind, and Hobbits didn't care much about ruling the world.
Plus, Gollum was never faced with carrying The Ring into Mordor on a quest to
destroy it. He couldn't have done that almost from the very time he found
it. So Frodo exhibited a great deal of strength and resiliency by bearing
it as long as he did, with the express assignment of destroying it. We
know how easy it was to succumb to the One Ring if one's desire was to own it
(Isildur, Gollum), imagine how much more terrible it's power was if one was
trying to destroy it, like
Frodo.
Thank you Professor Tolkien!!!!!
"I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it!"
