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It's basically the same thing (lemmy.world)
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[–] 97 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Fwiw, the ring had an aura of evil, not just a touch-based curse of evil. Boromir was by all accounts a cool guy until being around the ring made him go temporarily fucky in the head.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    So they'd need to figure out the range and adjust the rope?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    What if evil is like electricity and 1000 evilvolts of potential gets induced on the rope regardless.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Creates faraday cage made of pumice from Mt. Doom

    Harnesses power of the one ring using a series of severed fingers connected to a palantir via two blue wizards tied up in my basement.

    Uses surveillance footage to release "The Burning of The Shire"

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago

    I don't see it as an "aura", more as an almost sentient being, that is capable of subtly pulling at people's desires - Tolkien writes that Sauron transferred his will to dominate and his malice into the ring, along with most of his power, so it makes sense to me that it would be capable of playing an active role in corrupting people, not just as some "blanket AoE curse".

    For Boromir the ring acted as a psychological amplification of his own noble but desperate intentions. The Ring didnt create evil feelings out of nothing; instead, it acted as a corrupting mirror for his existing burdens.

    It briefly did the same to Gandalf and Galadriel, but thankfully both were able to resist its pull - maybe carrying a ring of power themselves helped them...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    fucky in the head.

    Pipin..let's go, smokes

    ...btw, what's the radius of AOE for this ring? We talkin' maybe some of the faster fish in Golem's nook might've gotten away and become a giant squid monster in a pond outside of a magic door? Or just a radiated warmth for anti-Maiar such as Balrogs?

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