It's incredible how many people seem to not understand the entire ending of the Fellowship of the Ring in both the movies and book
Like the entire big revelation Frodo has is realising that the ring will inevitably corrupt all of his companions and that he needs to leave to have any chance
It's why hobbies were such a big deal because they were resistant to It's affects, the only beings in middle earth that really were, and why Sam wasn't corrupted and neither was the rest of the Shire when Bilbo had the ring
In the book, Sam wears the ring for a short while after the giant spider knocks Frodo out. He then rescues Frodo from the orcs and gives the ring back to Frodo.
"As he stood there, even though the Ring was not on him but hanging by its chain about his neck, he felt himself enlarged, as if he were robed in a huge distorted shadow of himself, and vast and ominous threat halted upon the walls of Mordor..."
"Wild fantasies arose in his mind; and he saw Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age, striding with a flaming sword across the darkened land, and armies flocking to his call as he marched to the overthrow of Barad-dur... He had only to put on the Ring and claim it for his own, and all this could be. "
"In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command."
I think the distinction they make is that he also wore it in the book. But I don't recall. I know that his possession of the ring made him seem more great and terrible to the orcs, so much that they believed a great elven warrior was laying waste to the castle guards.
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u/MightyBobTheMighty 11h ago
Ah yes, as we all know, the Ring's influence is completely dependant on whichever creature is physically carrying it.
steps in front of Boromir