LOTR and the Imperius Curse

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Betty posted to HPforGU:
> 
> > While I was reading Lord of
> > the Rings, a thought crossed my mind that related to GoF.  If the
> > emperius curse had existed in Tolkien's world, which characters 
> would
> > have been most and least likely to resist it?  That is, which 
> characters
> > would be most likely to be controled by the emperius curse and 
which
> > would be most likely to resist it?
> 
> It's funny that this never struck me before, but the Ring is a lot 
> like the Imperius curse--or the other way around, to give credit 
where 
> credit is due.  So I think we get a good idea of who would resist 
it 
> best by the way they respond to the temptations of the Ring.
> 
> -Bilbo is easily controlled.  He never does acknowledge to himself 
how 
> much power the Ring has had over him, nor how it's affected his 
life 
> (lengthened it and "thinned it out" also).

BUT - he was the only one who gave up the ring of his own free will, 
remember? Gandalf said that, with admiration. Bilbo had it the 
longest of all the other characters (except Gollum) so the ring most 
affected his life, but my impression was that he resisted it's 
domination more than the others.

Interesting thread, BTW. I never thought of the similarities between 
the ring and the Imperius curse. I'm going to think some more about 
it, especially about the differences.

Naama