My Precious: Lord of The Rings Biggest Inconsistency Finally Explained
What appeared to be a hole in the plot is actually a deeper revelation of the versatility of J. R. R. Tolkien's work.
The Ring of Power from the world of The Lord of the Rings was an incredibly powerful artifact that gave its main owner unprecedented reserves of strength, but ironically, he could not get to it because first the Ring was with Smeagol/Golum, then Bilbo stole it, and after the burden of destroying it Frodo took upon himself, or rather, Gandalf gave him this mission.
However, many viewers wondered why the Ring immediately affected and corrupted Smeagol, and why Frodo was able to bring it to Mount Doom?
The Ring is dangerous because it always seeks to return to its owner and has a mind of its own.
It corrupts those who find it, forcing them to display their worst traits in the pursuit of power and enhances its temporary owner strength.
Thus, in theory, such powerful and ambitious characters as Gandalf, Galadriel, or Aragorn with the Ring would become as powerful as Sauron, but would eventually succumb to evil and fall to the dark side.
Gandalf knew this, and so he turned his eyes to the Hobbits.
Hobbits, however, are not ambitious, not striving for power, in no need for war.
They were even surprised when Gandalf said that war would soon come to the Shire, that is, the Hobbits did not even know that somewhere in relatively close proximity to them a war for the fate of the world was raging.
This made Frodo an ideal candidate to wear the Ring, but this does not mean that all Hobbits were equally immune to its influence.
One day, the Ring was found in the river by a hobbit named Deagol. He was fishing with his cousin Smeagol and heard the call of the artefact.
The latter demanded the find for himself as a birthday present.
Deagol refused, and Smeagol strangled him. Smeagol was originally a cowardly and greedy Hobbit, and his cousin was not much better, which is why the Ring took possession of their wills so quickly.
So we can say that the Ring is less harmful to the Hobbits because of their peaceful and kind-hearted nature, but Smeagol was not kind, and the Ring corrupted him even more.
Gollum is an unfortunate and unwilling slave to forces beyond his control. He can rightly be considered the character most affected by the Ring.
But it was he who ultimately contributed to the salvation of Middle-earth – even if he did so to satisfy his own passions.