• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    Yes, but without a control group we cannot really rule out whether this is race thing or a personality thing.

    For instance, what effect would it have had on Boromir and Aragorn? How about Gimli? It’s possible it would have made both of the former stronger, for instance, and made Gimli incredibly rich, because that’s what their races desired. We don’t really know, do we?

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Yup, all we know is that there’s some connection to the shadow world (“and in the darkness bind them”) and other rings of power, we don’t know the specific impact it would have on each individual or race.