While he wore it, his power on earth was actually enhanced. And here is what Tolkien said:īut to achieve this he had been obliged to let a great part of his own inherent power (a frequent and very significant motive in myth and fairy-story) pass into the One Ring. There are examples of the Ring's powers - chiefly the domination of other wills, but also the understanding of "the thought behind speech" - being used in-story. While the deceit of the ring was to offer imaginations of supreme power, it did in fact, absolutely, one hundred percent, confer real power upon its wielder - just not supreme power, which not even Sauron possessed. Why? Do we ever see any actual, "positive" effects from possessing the One Ring? Pretty much everyone in Middle-earth agrees that the One Ring will corrupt you, but they all seem to agree that it DOES convey great power even so. It's a twisted motive, but not really an enhanced power. Now that sounds out of character for a being as humble as Gandalf, but it doesn't actually sound like something he would have been unable to do before. He would have continued to rule and order things for 'good', and the benefit of his subjects according to his wisdom (which was and would have remained great). would have remained 'righteous', but self-righteous.
The accepted answer to this question implies that a being as powerful as Gandalf could dominate the Ring and break Sauron's hold over it, but even then Tolkien says that "It would have been the master in the end", and his descriptions of a Ringbearing Gandalf sound pretty much like Gandalf is using his own powers, not terribly augmented by the Ring: No mention is made, that I can recall, of a Ringbearer having greater stature or authority, or of people naturally following them or obeying their commands, while they possess the Ring. None of them seem more "powerful," even in the abstract way that magic-users in Tolkien operate. Boromir wants the power to save Gondor, etc.īut does the One Ring actually convey power to anyone but Sauron? It actually seems to diminish its bearers: Bilbo feels "thin" and "stretched", Sméagol becomes the wretched Gollum, Frodo is never quite the same even after it is destroyed. Even Sam, as I recall, imagines the power to create great huge sweeping gardens. The temptation of the One Ring, we quickly learn, is always tied up with power: each character's fantasies of possessing it seem to be about what they would do with great power.
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