Digest Number 738

From: Andrew Barton <AndrewBarton_at_...>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:31:03 -0400

> What I was thinking in relation to HW was that
> you would not give Frodo a Ring of Doom, cement it at 12, and let him
> improve it with HPs.

Why not? For some time after Bilbo first gets it he doesn't know its powers, and Frodo slowly learns the risks of using it while he is carrying it. At the end Frodo fumbles his ability to control the Ring, and then it is taken from him.

Andrew