So Olorin of the Grey Hall, servant of the secret flame and student of compassionate Nienna, decides to seize the ring and the power of Sauron, requiring he remake himself in the image of Sauron's callus, absolute will and solipsistic vision. How does the late third age pan out if Gandalf takes the ring in the parlor of bag end and makes ready to wield it from a place of power west of the misty mountains, Eregion for example.
Hardmode: the fellowship is still basically behind him, a la the noldor behind feanor's cause despite glaring issues with it, and the arkenstone was a silmaril.
Sauron gets his shit wrecked, the fading of the last age of magic is postponed by Olorin's newfound power and lordship. This is not a good thing.
Chase Cox
This.
The end result will be similar to when Pharazon invaded Valinor. The Valar will admit their efforts failed, send for Eru, and he'll press the reset button.
Magic is meant to fade, the Elves are meant to leave, the Dwarfs and all the rest are meant to wither away, and Men are meant to take over.
That is Eru's plan and Eru will ensure that it happens.
Jaxon Miller
>Olorin of Many Colours
As a character, his compassion is basically his most defined trait. He has a grand sense of pity and is quick to rail at the exploitation of the weak. However, he is also patient and appreciates the simple candour of the Hobbit folk. This is all fairly appropriate for a disciple of Nienna, Lady of Mourning.
Wielding the One Ring basically takes your good traits to their logical and terrifying conclusion, so where does that leave us with Olorin, who's primary good trait is his ability to pity? He'd be a wise and just lord, who despite his goodness, would not allow those under his domain to progress. His would be a realm of stagnation, where the people are happy, but listless, as their needs are met and they move through simple lives with simple goals and simple means.
Elijah Perez
So a sort of communist hell
Noah Cook
>the arkenstone was a silmaril As soon as that gets out no one gives a shit about the ring anymore, sauron included
Easton Brown
If the Arkenstone was a Silmaril, shit would have gone down WAY before Smaug showed up.
The whole notion is stupid.
Generally, I agree with you, but one thing I'm not so sure of is the stagnation. I see a Ringlord Olorin as much more active than that. He has his pity for his subjects. He wants them to do well. And of course, he knows what is best for them all. I imagine he'd turn it less into some sort of stagnation thing and more into some sort of oppressive theocracy, for their own good of course, where ultimately every move and thought is handed down from on high.
Gavin Harris
Technically, if you go by the theory that the Ring CANNOT turn on Sauron, Olorin would take the Ring, declare himself in opposition to Sauron, and then immediately succumb to Sauron's Will because even the IDEA that someone other than Sauron could master the Ring is a fabrication BY the Ring.
Gandalf even broaching the subject in the books is merely a sign that the Ring's power could even undermine one as good and pure as him.
Joshua Jackson
And knowing this is why Gandalf nopes the fuck out, because he immediately realizes he's being corrupted by the ring super fast if he's actually considering it.
Gandalf and Galadriel both come within a knifes edge of becoming a second Sarumon and only get out of it via autistic screeching and making Frodo get it the fuck away from them.
Thomas Gutierrez
well there's more Sauron in the ring than out of it, so if you can be more Sauron than the little bit that remains active in the world instead of suspended in the ring as an abstract format within Eru's creation, you could become Sauron, essentially.
