I just died laughing 🍗
from genfood@feddit.org to lotrmemes@midwest.social on 17 Jul 23:00
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thejml@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jul 23:05 next collapse

Maybe two European Swallows could carry it by the husk.

JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jul 00:42 next collapse

a European Swallow? Surely not. An African Swallow, maybe.

boydster@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jul 00:43 next collapse

Oh, sure sure, or perhaps an African swallow

sundray@lemmus.org on 18 Jul 03:09 next collapse

It’s not a question of where he grips it!

socsa@piefed.social on 20 Jul 22:59 collapse

Are you suggesting rings of power migrate?

LurkingLuddite@piefed.social on 17 Jul 23:06 next collapse

I mean
 Totally valid question!

IMO, it’d almost certainly be a terrible idea because all the ring has to do is get to someone else. If they lose track of that chicken for a second, I bet it’d run it’s ass off and find some other creature/character that’d be easier to influence than Frodo.

Remember: It is not the petite, easily overpowered nature of Hobbits that made them a good choice. It was their peaceful, carefree nature: They are WAY less temptable by the idea of power and control than others.

So
 While the worst damage a chicken would be likely to do directly would be to peck out the eyes of Sam and Frodo while they slept, it would still be foolish to put the ring in control of anything more temptable or less driven to destroy the ring than Frodo.

sundray@lemmus.org on 18 Jul 03:08 next collapse

Also
 it’s proximity to the ring that matters, so Frodo would still be under the influence of the ring, unless that chicken’s leash was like five miles long.

chuckleslord@lemmy.world on 18 Jul 03:08 next collapse

The resistance of the Hobbits is true, but stronger still is the circumstances in which the ring came to your possession. Bilbo stumbled upon it, Frodo inherited it, Sam took it to keep it safe. All three resisted for a very long time. Only Frodo gave into the temptation while the ring was in his possession.

Meanwhile, DĂ©agol found it on accident in the river. Smeagol coveted it as a birthday gift. When DĂ©agol refused to give it, Smeagol killed DĂ©agol for it.

illi@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jul 06:28 collapse

Only Frodo gave into the temptation while the ring was in his possession.

And, afaik, that was because the Ring was at its most powerful - facing imminent destruction is when the Ring goes all in with the influence.

BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world on 18 Jul 13:13 collapse

It wasn’t because it was facing destruction, but because it was at the heart of it’s power source.

At the precipice in Mt Doom, nobody could resist the temptations of the Ring. It’s why Gollum was necessary.

A theme in the books is doing good only because it’s the right thing to do, and another theme is evil often hurts itself trying to be selfish.

Frodo and Gandalf have that talk about Gollum, and Frodo says it’s a pity Bilbo didn’t slay him when he had a chance (in the books, it’s before he leaves the Shire, in the movies, it’s in Moria):

‘But this is terrible!’ cried Frodo. ‘Far worse than the worst that I imagined from your hints and warnings. O Gandalf, best of friends, what am I to do? For now I am really afraid. What am I to do? What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’*

‘Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.’

‘I am sorry,’ said Frodo. ‘But I am frightened; and I do not feel any pity for Gollum.’

‘You have not seen him,’ Gandalf broke in.

‘No, and I don’t want to,’ said Frodo. I can’t understand you. Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.’

'Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.

That’s my favorite quote from Gandalf.

illi@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jul 16:50 collapse

This is what I was thinking of, just wasn’t sure. Thanks for the additional details, always appreciated :)

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world on 18 Jul 06:19 collapse

Have you ever considered how tasty hobbitses are tho

Sergio@piefed.social on 18 Jul 02:16 next collapse

Origin story of Cuccos in Legend of Zelda.

sundray@lemmus.org on 18 Jul 03:10 collapse
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org on 18 Jul 03:52 next collapse

Have you seen the boys and the Ved up sheep?

Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Jul 05:49 collapse

Vd UP CHICKEEEEEEN!

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 17 Jul 23:24 next collapse

This was written by someone who doesn’t know all that much about chickens. The only creature that would be worse to let carry the ring would be a maiar. Or a goose.

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jul 05:39 next collapse

Ikr? My dark lord is a hen

TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id on 20 Jul 13:00 collapse

Hail sate hen!

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works on 20 Jul 17:01 collapse

Dammit! Almost made me do a spit take when my morning beverage.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 18 Jul 04:06 next collapse

as someone who grew up on a farm with geese.

fuck geese.

I’ll take an ornery goat over a happy goose any day.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world on 18 Jul 15:11 collapse

Cassowary

sunsofold@lemmy.zip on 19 Jul 05:42 next collapse

“It’s taken me ages to realise
” All it took was reading a previous time someone posted about it. The response is a nice variation on the traditional response as well.

Khrux@ttrpg.network on 19 Jul 08:59 next collapse

In the film, we see the ring shrink to Isildur’s ring size when he hold it, and it remains that size when DĂ©agol finds it, after thousands of years without a carrier.

If you put it on a chicken, it is also gonna get really small, like chicken fingers small.

I’m not sure if this is a pro or con.

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works on 20 Jul 07:10 next collapse

I’m sorry, are you seriously suggesting that they would ever put the ring ON the chicken? Then you’d have an evil invisible chicken! After a while, the chicken will waste away into shadow and become a Nazgul.

Khrux@ttrpg.network on 20 Jul 22:45 collapse

I would consider myself a Lord of the Rings fan, I’ve read the books maybe 3 times through and read The Silmarillion once.

I forgot the ring makes people invisible.

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works on 21 Jul 02:13 collapse

Haha, happy cake day!

TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id on 20 Jul 12:25 collapse

An evil chicken would have called out the second a wraith was near, every fucking time. Chickens are a single cluck away from our evil at their best.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world on 18 Jul 03:03 collapse

But all along the journey he would have to keep explaining that the thing on the end of the string was his invisible chicken.