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Yes and no.
The ring curses Gollum. In so doing, it seals it's own fate. This is the point of Gandalf saying "I think he still has some purpose" or whatever it is, where mercy for the little fucker is the key to victory.
>Then suddenly, as before under the eaves of Emyn Muil, Sam saw these two rivals with other vision. A crouching shape, scarcely more than a shadow of a living thing, a creature now wholly ruined and defeated, yet filled with hideous lust and rage; and before it stood stern, untouchable now by pity, a figure robed in white, but at its breast it held a wheel of fire. Out of the fire there spoke a commanding voice.
>"Begone, and trouble me no more! If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom
This is what destroys the ring. As gollum does, in fact, touch the ring again he is invokes the curse it placed upon him itself. When he falls he takes the ring with him inadvertently and it is destroyed by it's own contempt.
Nobody possessed the strength of will to destroy the ring. Sam was humble enough to turn away from its temptations and was the only one who could willing give it up, but nobody had the will to stand at the crack of doom where the ring was made and destroy it. It was too powerful. Only by it's own machinations could it be undone.
Yes and no.
The ring curses Gollum. In so doing, it seals it's own fate. This is the point of Gandalf saying "I think he still has some purpose" or whatever it is, where mercy for the little fucker is the key to victory.
>Then suddenly, as before under the eaves of Emyn Muil, Sam saw these two rivals with other vision. A crouching shape, scarcely more than a shadow of a living thing, a creature now wholly ruined and defeated, yet filled with hideous lust and rage; and before it stood stern, untouchable now by pity, a figure robed in white, but at its breast it held a wheel of fire. Out of the fire there spoke a commanding voice.
>"Begone, and trouble me no more! If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom
This is what destroys the ring. As gollum does, in fact, touch the ring again he is invokes the curse it placed upon him itself. When he falls he takes the ring with him inadvertently and it is destroyed by it's own contempt.
Nobody possessed the strength of will to destroy the ring. Sam was humble enough to turn away from its temptations and was the only one who could willing give it up, but nobody had the will to stand at the crack of doom where the ring was made and destroy it. It was too powerful. Only by it's own machinations could it be undone.
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