RELATED: Lord of the Rings: Wait, Why DidnвЂ™t the Hobbits Get a Ring of Power? Elves Didn't Have Has Much to Gain From the RingДЄccording to The Silmarillion, Sauron created the One Ring to ultimately destroy the Elves and tricked them into creating the remaining Rings as a part of his plan. According to The Silmarillion, four of the Rings were destroyed by dragon fire: one of the few things capable of melting them down. This eventually led to their destruction when their hordes attracted dragons. It also enhanced their natural greed, causing them to amass more and more wealth. Dwarves, however, were more stubborn than humans and resisted the corruption more ferociously, though the Rings extended their lives just as they did with Men.

All of SauronвЂ™s Rings were intended to be for the Elves, so the seven he gave to the Dwarf-lords presumably differed little from the nine he gifted Men. The SilmarillionВ went into greater detail about them, which shed considerable light on Dwarven resistance to the One Ring. Beyond the mention of the seven given to the Dwarf-lords, they rarely interacted, at least in the main text of The Lord of the Rings. RELATED: Lord of the Rings: Who Are FrodoвЂ™s Parents вЂ“ and What Happened to Them? Men Remained the Most Susceptible to the RingДwarvesвЂ™ relationship to the Rings was more obscure than Men's. A list of pertinent Middle-earth races follows, ranked by their vulnerability to the SauronвЂ™s corruption. Tolkien was reasonably clear, not only in The Lord of the RingsВ but in The Silmarillion, which details the creation of all the great Rings. Some would fall easily to its influence, but others proved more resistant and could hold it off for quite some time, depending on the circumstances. In TolkienвЂ™s work, that power became more overt as Sauron, and the various Rings he controlled could tempt and ultimately corrupt anyone who wore them to his side.Д«ut not every Middle-earth race was affected the same way by the One Ring. The Ring gave its bearer the ability to turn invisible, rendering them anonymous and thus divorcing them from any comeuppance for their misdeeds. Tolkien based the concept on the Ring of Gyges, a philosophical construct Plato used in his book Republic to enforce the idea that morality is based on consequences. Anyone who placed it on their finger could become 'invisible' at will, yet doing so opened the user up to the вЂњshadow realm.' J.R.R. The One Ring in The Lord of the Rings was always defined by its ability to corrupt.

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