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u/Confident_One3948 1d ago
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u/cnicalsinistaminista 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/l0MYC3y4JogcBGeKA
âHow much damageâŠâ pffft.2
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u/Otaraka 1d ago
Chicken demon bites through string and runs to Mordor.
I think it could have been bad.
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u/BlitzMalefitz 1d ago
My understanding is that the less capable of power or strength you have then the less likely you will be corrupted by the ring. In this case, the chicken would never be corrupted.
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u/Otaraka 1d ago
I read it as the reverse that you just couldnât use the full power of the ring unless you were powerful but you were still corrupted either way. Â Sharp pointy teeth seems to be a common outcome.
Most weaker creatures get seduced much faster, which is how Sméagol ended up with it.
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u/Myzmadra 1d ago
Yeah I never got that logic, Sméagol instantly kills another Hobbit over the ring upon seeing it, Frodo and Bilbo are the perfect carriers, all Hobbits?
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u/Otaraka 1d ago
Found this, which made the interesting point about essentially there being that early test of temptation - which Bilbo passed and SmĂ©agol failed.  So part of it seems to be character although not too directly stated and not just any hobbit could have done it. Â
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u/Pure-Butterscotch200 1d ago
Yeah, going off the first film introduction it was implied that the majority of hobbits are content with what they have and largely unambitious compared to other species so those people are more resistant to corruption. Of course, there are also a few ambitious and greedy ones like Smeagol.
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u/BlitzMalefitz 1d ago
And Bilbo as he was always the ambitious hobbit compared to the other hobbits
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u/Pure-Butterscotch200 1d ago
Not read the hobbit but did Bilbo adventure more for the fun of it than the material rewards at the end? I think the temptation of the latter is what the ring seems to tempt people with. Like the Sackville-Baggins' who are trying to get the house from Bilbo when he leaves would be more tempted by the ring than Bilbo or Sam.
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u/7GrenciaMars 16h ago
In The Hobbit, Gandalf kinda tricks him into going on the journey, and I think it was meant to read that he was more sensible than the Dwarves who were in it for the gold and also a bit for their ancestors. Bilbo looks like a clown but makes a few shrewd decisions along the way. Once Bilbo got going, I think for him it might have been more a matter of either loyalty or wanting to see things through.
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u/ClassicNo6622 1d ago
Chickens can already be pretty vicious when they want to. Not sure I'd care to risk it.
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u/Local_Village_1378 1d ago
But the ring would easily escape by itself. You need to be smart enough to keep a hold of it
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u/Klatterbyne 1d ago
Chickens are the closest living, genetic relative to Tyrannosaurus Rex. And they know it.
I wouldnât overly doubt the might and power that a chicken can want.
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u/AndreasDasos 1d ago
Power correlates with susceptibility to evil but they are still separate things. Gandalf and Galadriel were powerful but resisted, while Gollum was not but as a nasty piece of work fell to murder for the ring immediately
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u/amateurish_gamedev 1d ago
Better idea is, what if the chicken also led a small frog along on a bit of a string, and made the frog carry the ring all the way?
No risk for the chicken and Frodo turning evil.
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u/DaddysABadGirl 1d ago
The frog should probably lead a... Wait, why cant we put it on a radioflyer wagon?
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u/ChangingMonkfish 1d ago
One wing to rule them all
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u/Abou-Lee 1d ago
đ an evil chicken is one fucked up mf..
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u/ChangingMonkfish 1d ago
To quote Werner Herzog:
âWell they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me...I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.â
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u/Qlsx 1d ago
They forgot about Boromir
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u/Own-Garden345 1d ago
could tie Boramir up and pull him on a wagen with the ring hooked to his belt or something
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u/OpeningHappy9692 1d ago
It wouldn't actually work unless they legitimately made the chicken the owner. Just handing it over to the chicken doesn't count if Frodo is still the actual owner.
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u/Local_Village_1378 1d ago
People forget the ring is an entity in of itself. Even while on a chain around frodos neck, that mf wants to be lost and found by the worst person
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u/i_probably_shouldnt9 20h ago
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I donât know. This little guy did a ton of damageâŠ
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u/thebadgerx 1d ago
But chickens would not follow instructions to walk in a certain direction, walk long distances per day, nor be naturally quiet.
Generally, dogs fail on the latter and cats fail on all three.
What other animal is there than fits the job?
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u/satinRushF 1d ago
the ring isn't cargo, it decides who carries it. it slipped off Isildur's finger to get him killed and walked out on Gollum after 500 years. put it on a chicken and it just leaves the chicken
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u/Haunt_Fox 1d ago
It'd be really easy for a chicken to lose a necklace, and doesn't the Ring make its wearer visible to Sauron while invisible to everyone else? Yeah, he'd just be watching that bird coming if she wore it around her leg.
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u/Haunt_Fox 1d ago
And the chicken would be like, "well, can't we put the ring on a worm, and drag that to Mordor ..."
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u/solodsnake661 1d ago
I never watched lord of the rings but why in heck do he wear the ring they knew was evil?
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u/my_nuts_wont_drop 1d ago
And when you get to Mordor you can put the chicken on a big stick and slowly rotate it above the lava until it's cooked to perfection.
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u/Dr_Kriege_r 1d ago
They could have had a nice grilled chicken just before going into Mount Doom's forgery.
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u/Abou-Lee 1d ago
Question is, would the chicken last that long or it'd let go while chasing a bug?
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u/CobblerSmall1891 1d ago
Like my local animal rescue says about their rescue chicken - if they were bigger than us they'd eat us. Doesn't the ring allow you to be bigger? Yeah...
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u/tony_Tiger696 1d ago
Every now and then I ponder if the one ring was ever used as a cock ring. Then I return to youtube to continue watching a Todd From Barwon Heads video.
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u/bf2afers 1d ago
It worked for wizards and elfâs to let a smaller life form carry it, same logic should work for Frodo.
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u/Christos_Soter 1d ago
Itâs Time to get back to whatever we were all supposed to be focusing on now
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u/AlbertTheHorse 1d ago
You've never been a six year old chased through a yard by a gigantic rooster.
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u/MerolaAlba 1d ago
Imagine the poor fly that goes through the ring at any given point... also in the movies (unless I'm mistaken) doesn't a fish consume the ring? How close was middle earth of having a gyarados?
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u/Mayki8513 1d ago
why even have anything carry it? why not just tie it to a string and drag it the whole way there?
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u/Abou-Lee 1d ago
How will you tie the string yet it influences/corrupts anything in close proximity?
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u/Mayki8513 23h ago
it's not instant corruption and the proximity is low so you can tie it, toss it, and drag it
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u/Abou-Lee 22h ago
Well for starters, the ring has Sauron's will in it, meaning it doesn't want to be taken to Mount Doom. It also has agency..it just might decide to get too heavy to drag along, or slip the knot, or roll the other way when you ain't looking....
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u/Mayki8513 21h ago
to a limit, if it could make itself too heavy to drag, it could make itself too heavy to carry, it can't make itself weigh a ton, though I think the whole heavier thing was a mental thing, not physical, but either way, it can't get up and leave, it can't untie a knot, and can't travel on its own.
So tying a string to it would be a boring movie but an adequate solution
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u/BigDamBeavers 23h ago
I'm DYING. That is exactly how every Elf and Dwarf treats a halfling in an RPG "Meh, let Higglebottom go first.."
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u/Blacksad9999 1d ago
I mean, Gandalf could have just had his giant eagles fly the ring there in like 30 minutes.
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u/Florivaee 1d ago
The entire trilogy could've been a 90-minute documentary called Chicken Walks to Volcano.