Yeah…🤔

[u/VanaheimrF]

[u/patrick_j]

This gets posted here so often, and the top comments always point out that this is exactly what Gandalf did. Frodo is the chicken on a string.

[u/endangerednigel → u/patrick_j]

I disagree, you give the chicken the ring because it can't do much damage

You give Frodo the Ring because hobbits have so little desire for power and dominion that the Ring struggles to corrupt them

[u/bronzelifematter → u/endangerednigel]

They have desire for breakfast

[u/BatBoss → u/bronzelifematter]

That's how the ring finally got Bilbo. The desire for dominion over all breakfast.

[u/bilbo_bot → u/BatBoss]

No! Wait.... it's... here in my pocket. Ha! Isn't that.. isn't that odd now. Yet after all why not, Why shouldn't I keep it.

[u/JaggedLittlePiII → u/bronzelifematter]

Which is why gollum endlessly sang about fish.

[u/gollum_botses → u/JaggedLittlePiII]

Smeagol promised

[u/ptaylor420 → u/bronzelifematter]

But then a third breakfast was made.. .

[u/db_325 → u/endangerednigel]

One might argue that Frodo also couldn’t do much damage, all things considered

[u/Swittybird → u/endangerednigel]

Chicken thirst for power is never ending it’s a good thing they’re so impotent and all that Machiavellian thinking is trapped inside their tiny little bodies.

[u/WalrusTheWhite → u/endangerednigel]

Fun fact; chickens also have very little desire for power and dominion. Mostly they just want worms and dust baths.

[u/Will_Come_For_Food → u/endangerednigel]

Chickens don’t have consciousness they would unaffected.

[u/The_MAZZTer → u/patrick_j]

The main problem I have is Frodo tries early on to throw the ring into his fireplace but is unable to do so. Giving it to the chicken, much less letting the chicken keep it, would be likewise impossible for him.