But first they would need to invent some tape

Sam did bear the weight of the ring, its hard to convey in the movie but the book makes it clear. Sam just had an iron will.

no it's cause Sam was a fucking saint

I thought Sam did put on the ring in the books.

It also affected Boromir just being around it.

Didn't Smeagol kill a friend just to have it before even wearing it?

The mouse definitely would have escaped and ran straight to Sauron.

Sam just had the strength to resist the ring.

He didn't crave for power, but only for food and peace.

Yes, but through that mouse, the ring would wield a power too squeak and scratch to imagine.

Consider this: Frodo is the mouse

Was magic ring ever explained on a technical level? I thought all we know is it wants to be with sauron and it makes angels shit themselves.

For all we know putting it on a mouse gives everyone mouse nightmares and make them worship the mouse as mouse king before they take it straight to sauron.

I'm sure an invisible mouse with an evil, human-level intelligence in its head and a total commitment to do the latter's bidding would have gone much better than what happened

But that mouse would have become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

This would create quite an evil mouse. I imagine the risk here is that the mouse would break free and run away with the ring and bring it to Sauron.

Edit: Someone already beat me to it.

But the ring was a mental burden, not a physical one. That's like saying that you're easier to carry because no one can feel the weight of your depression.

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The mouse would have chewed through the pocket and run away as soon as it could

They should have laid a long garden hose all the way to mt doom and pushed the ring though it with a bicycle pump

No, just proves Sam is the real hero of the story.

Yes. There could have been a thousand things that could of happened and then we wouldn't have had this book, or the trilogy, or the landscape of modern day fantasy as we know it.

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Until the mouse kills all of them.

The ring shrinks down to fit the mouse sized knuckle. After disappearing, the mouse would have hopped on on of those massive eagles and flown away from the volcano.

They could tie the ring to a balloon and push it along.

Gollum would've jumped into the fires with the mouse and that wouldn't be ok.

I suspect it's more a question of proximity, the one not carrying it is much further and thus much less affected by it

If you carry the mouse, then it's almost as if you're carrying it yourself

Gets to mount Doom, chucks mouse into volcano.

Could they have just used a stick to carry it then?

Ah yes, tape, the cornerstone of every Hobbit's hole.

Cut to the palace of Mausron the Terrible I: "And that's how we overthrew the apes and founded our perfect paradise, which I now rule with my tiny, iron adorable fist."

Walk Walk Walk

Better yet, start the battle of pelannor fields as usual, cept you give that paper bag to Gwaihir and have him drop that shit on Mt doom like a gahdamn b52. NnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnerrrroooooomKABOOM. Job done.

tape did not exist in this era of fantasy.... Sam could do this because he was pure of heart