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I want to love Lord of the Rings but there is just one glaring plot hole.... Why didn't Frodo just hide the ring somewhere like throw it in the ocean. It would have been stuck in a cave for forever if those dumb manlets never took the ring in the first place. So why not just hide it again. Lotr fans btfo

>> No.15517711

>>15517683
read the book and find out, retard

>> No.15517713

>>15517683
Frodo would have been too drawn to the ring to keep it hidden. Same way Bilbo went mad for it.

>> No.15517722

>>15517713
wrong.

>> No.15517725

>>15517683
It would be more sensible to ask on >>>/lit/
But AIUI losing the ring again, or even throwing it in the ocean, would not have been sufficient to stop Sauron from taking over the whole of Middle Earth.

>> No.15517743
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15517743

Gold is due for a correction any day now obv dont be an idiot buy bitbean

>> No.15517745

is sauron hitler?

>> No.15517752

>>15517683
fucking dork

>> No.15517760

>>15517713
This. to put it another way, the ring was like chainlink on the biz subreddit. Frodo was the autists that obsessed over it and had to destroy it so it couldn't corrupt their souls with money, so they made Nazi and frog memes and called the founder a fatass constantly until any company that would have adopted the tech would never touch it.

>> No.15517786

>>15517725
This, also after eons passed the ring would have eventually been found again, the great rings had this tendency. Also the elves power was slowly waning, so the strength to oppose Sauron was diminishing, waiting would have just ceded middle earth to him.

The real plot hole is why didn't they just get the Gwaihir to help

>> No.15517788

>>15517683
Sauron was already winning the war. Destroying the ring was the only way to win the war.

>> No.15517821

I destruction of Numenor the ring was left in the bottom of the ocean, he got it back.

>> No.15517834

>>15517683
the real plothole is why didn't eru iluvathar destroy sauron... fucking faggot

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15517837

>>15517760
STOP FUCKING WITH MY INVESTMENTS

>> No.15517880

>>15517683
Because the ocean is deep af and they have no idea what might live down there.

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15517887

The real question is, why didn't Gandalf make one of these bad boys and just decimate Sauron's army?

>> No.15517893

Gandalf sucks diccs irl

>> No.15517908

>>15517760
fucking kek'd

>> No.15517913

>>15517887
because the felbeast and nazgul would have rekt the eagles. it was only after the ring destroyed them that the eagles were able to get air superiority

>> No.15517914

>>15517786
The eagles were fighting the war in the north

>> No.15517927

>>15517913
That is true. I'm curious if there's a maximum flight ceiling for the various flying animals in LOTR.

>> No.15517944

>>15517683
Why didn't Frodo just commit suicide the night before Bilbo's birthday party?

>> No.15517946

>>15517683
Didn't smeagols friend originally find it while they were fishing? So technically it was lost in the water for a long time. But it was found again.

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>>15517786
Based answer. But there is no hole there. Gandalf was leading them to the Gwaihir. His plan was to secret them to the Eagles, and once there fly Frodo to mount doom with the ring. When he was forced to battle the Balrog, his last words to the fellowship were "fly, you fools!" In hopes someone *cough* Aragorn *cough* would see his plan. He missed it. Gandalf had kept it so secret it led to that plan failing.

>> No.15517959

>>15517837
>5GIG.

Huawei shill detected.

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15517991

>>15517760
based

>> No.15517996

>>15517683
They tried hiding it. Didn't work. The Ring wants to be found, and as far as the fate of all living things goes, it doesn't matter how long the Ring is willing to wait to be found. It must be destroyed for the future to be secure.
It also has a way of making it extremely difficult for anyone who does possess it to actually destroy it. Most characters in the book don't even want to touch it.

>> No.15518008

>>15517745
>is sauron hitler?
It was written to Tolkein's son fighting in WWI to keep him and his fellow soldiers occupied in the trenches. Hitler was an infantry soldier. Sauron might be the Kaiser.

>> No.15518030

>>15517683
The movies are some of the worst shit movies ever made. Every single actor acted like they were doing a parody.

>> No.15518031

>>15518008
>It was written to Tolkein's son fighting in WWI to keep him and his fellow soldiers occupied in the trenches.

Tolkien was in WW1. He fought in the Somme. The Dead Marshes are the clearest reference to his time in the war.

>> No.15518054

>>15517949
Why not just fucking tell them instead of being cryptic

>> No.15518060

>>15518008
doubt it, Tolkien was against Versailes and any kind of punitive peace and hates allegories

>> No.15518062

>>15518008
Top kek the state of /biz/. Tolkien himself was in ww1 you retard

>> No.15518084

This was addressed in the book. Sauron is immortal. He will not die of old age. Therefore if you throw it in the ocean then he will still be around when the ocean dries up and the geography changes hundreds of thousands of years later and he will easily reclaim it