That scene always had me like “damn elf, Frodo and Bilbo, two bumpkin ass hobbits didn’t let the ring fully control them, yet your holier than thou 1000 year old magical elf ass goes full asshole after being around it for 2 seconds? Y’all weak as fuck.”
I never read the books, but it was my understanding that the hobbits were more resilient against the ring precisely because they were bumpkins without ambitions that left them open to corruption
I think they could’ve been corrupted with a bit of dark whispers about third and even fourth breakfast. It would be a mostly useless type of corruption, but the idea of having a thanksgiving like spread for every meal, having the best drinks, and napping all the time would have little trouble corrupting my simple mind.
Iirc there’s a part where Sam imagines having that much power but laughs the idea off because he wouldn’t be able to tend to his garden
The Ring went “The whole world could be your garden” and Sam went “Nah, that garden would be way too big for me”
