I would happily put on the One Ring. I know the consequences but I’d still do it. It’s mine after all. Of course, it’s tempting. It’s supposed to be. Throughout the films, we see just how tempting it can be.
But oddly enough, the character who perhaps loves the ring the most, Gollum, never puts it on.
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He did wear the ring once on screen when Sméagol wears it in a flashback, but throughThe Lord of the Ringsand The Hobbit films, Gollum is never seen with it on his finger. He only ever held it.
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The same goes for the books, where J. R. R. Tolkien narrates thatGollumwore the ring many times in the past but the protagonists never saw him wearing it.
Thankfully, Tolkien went on to explain why Gollum didn’t wear it, but also why he avoided putting it on his fingers.
After Sméagol was exiled and became Gollum over time, he used the One Ring less and less because he already lived in darkness. He didn’t need its power of invisibility.
He often used it early on to catch fish with his hands or to attack Goblins and Orcs as they often used torches to illuminate the dark, removing the benefit of being unseen for Gollum.
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However, he also stopped using it because it exhausts the wearer mentally and physically. Gollum simply couldn’t wear it anymore.
Using the ring became an addiction and one that mirrors that of drugs and alcohol, it wore down Gollum and caused him to waste away.
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