Re: MT VOID, 06/13/25 -- Vol. 43, No. 50, Whole Number 2384

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"Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> writes:

first we have Deagol who finds
TOR.  Almost immediately, Smeagol murders him for the Ring.  So
both of them seem to have been corrupted by merely being in the
presence of TOR.

How do you see D\'eagol as having been corrupted, esp. given that he had
the Ring for about ten seconds?  Sure he wanted to keep the Ring, but
that's not unreasonable given that he found it.  I read the passage as
the Ring deciding that Sm\'eagol would make a more suitable host (and,
as it turns out, probably having been wrong).

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