July 18, 2002

Rings and Ages
Loremaster

My first thing to say was that i thought that the movie portrayed the ages pretty well, they all looked like the discription that i would have gotten from the book (with the exception of Elrond i keep thinking of "mister Anderson" whenever i see him, and Galadriel, i dint think she was as beautifull as the book portrayed her).

My second point is about the invisibility thing you all are talkin about. I think that the reason only the cloths dissapear is because of the fact that the hobbits mid was not strong enough to will it for anything else, note that every time Bilbo put it on it was to escape or avoid someone or something, then he told frodo that the ring made him invisibleand Frodo would have accepted that fact, so in turn Frodo only used the ring for escape or avoidance. So i think the ring picked up on this "wish" to be not seen and used that as an easy access to the person who found it's mind. This would also answer why nothing elsr the wearer touched would go invisible, the wearer didnt have the concentraition or skill to use the ring for more than a simple pourpos. Another thing the ring did was prolong life, almost every mortal dwells in fear of dying, and almost every mortal doesn't want to die, so i think this was another strong "wish" that the ring picked up from its wearer. I think had the hobbits been strong enough and trained enough they could probably get the ring to do something else, but as gandalf said, the ring gave power according to what the wearer could handle, trying to use it for anything else would destroy them.