'But I have so little of any of these things! You are wise and powerful. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.' 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?' 'I do really wish to destroy it!' cried Frodo. There is only one way: to find the Cracks of Doom in the depths of Orodruin, the Fire-mountain, and cast the Ring in there, if you really wish to destroy it, to put it beyond the grasp of the Enemy for ever.' It has been said that dragon-fire could melt and consume the Rings of Power, but there is not now any dragon left on earth in which the old fire is hot enough nor was there ever any dragon, not even Ancalagon the Black, who could have harmed the One Ring, the Ruling Ring, for that was made by Sauron himself. Not even the anvils and furnaces of the Dwarves could do that. But there is no smith's forge in this Shire that could change it at all. This Ring has already passed through it unscathed, and even unheated. 'Your small fire, of course, would not melt even ordinary gold. It cannot be unmade by your hands, or by mine. Even if you took it and struck it with a heavy sledge-hammer, it would make no dint in it. But as for breaking the Ring, force is useless. And I could not "make" you - except by force, which would break your mind. 'You see? Already you too, Frodo, cannot easily let it go, nor will to damage it. He weighed the Ring in his hand, hesitating, and forcing himself to remember all that Gandalf had told him and then with an effort of will he made a movement, as if to cast it away - but he found that he had put it back in his pocket. But he found now that he could not do so, not without a great struggle. When he took it out he had intended to fling it. It was an admirable thing and altogether precious. The gold looked very fair and pure, and Frodo thought how rich and beautiful was its colour, how perfect was its roundness. But I suppose one could hammer it or melt it.'įrodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. 'If you had warned me, or even sent me a message, I would have done away with it.' 'But why not destroy it, as you say should have been done long ago?' cried Frodo. An event in the prelude to Frodo's Departure from the Shire see that entry for an overview: ' is the One, and is exerting all his power to find it or draw it to himself.'.
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