Em sua carta 246 , JRRT falou sobre as conseqüências prováveis se Frodo (ou qualquer outro ser menor) decidir assumir o controle do anel.
Em resumo, o anel levará qualquer um que reivindicar a um estado de loucura megalomaníaca. Eles ficarão obcecados em tentar dominar o mundo e, em última análise, procurarão confrontar o próprio Sauron, quando Sauron os destruirá completamente.
Um orc que descobriu o anel sofreria o mesmo destino. Sua arrogância, crueldade e falta de inteligência certamente os obrigariam a tentar usar o poder do Um Anel. Eles instantaneamente se tornariam um pequeno Lorde do Anel e um alvo primordial para os Nazgull ou para o próprio Sauron.
He needed time, much time, before he could control the Ring or (which in such a case is the same) before it could control him; before his will and arrogance could grow to a stature in which he could dominate other major hostile wills.
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But if he still preserved some sanity and partly understood the significance of it, so that he refused now to go with them to Barad-dûr, they would simply have waited. Until Sauron himself came. In any case a confrontation of Frodo and Sauron would soon have taken place, if the Ring was intact. Its result was inevitable. Frodo would have been utterly overthrown: crushed to dust, or preserved in torment as a gibbering slave.