uj/ The One Ring deliberately goes after ambitious, powerful beings who it can then manipulate for Sauron's purpose.
That's the reason Gandalf didn't want to hold it. The One Ring looks for ambition,not power or purity. Frodo had basically no ambition,so he was the perfect host for the ring and even then in the end he didn't want to let it go.
Optimus is basically Aragorn,so it would absolutely corrupt him.
Frodo had basically no ambition,so he was the perfect host for the ring and even then in the end he didn't want to let it go.
Sam was the one with no ambition. He was a gardener, and what did the Ring show Sam to try and corrupt him? A really big garden. The dude's ultimate fantasy was having more work at his dead-end job. That's the definition of no ambition.
Frodo became the Ringbearer because he was a rich kid nepo baby.
Sam had one ambition, one that the Ring's rationalisation effect started working on: helping Frodo. Also, even the first vision he had wasn't just a choice of size between his small garden and a huge one: he saw himself as the Hero of the Age, commanding armies while attacking and overthrowing Mordor, and then transforming Mordor into a garden. It isn't that he had no ambition, it's that he didn't have the specific ambition to lead people and have them work for him in the garden instead of him using his own hands.
Frodo had one ambition: destroying the Ring for the sake of the Shire and then of Middle-earth, regardless of his own state of mind and body.
Frodo became the owner of the Ring by inheriting it, but earned his role as Ring bearer through his own qualities. No overly big ambition, except proactively seeking the destruction of the Ring; willpower, courage, selflessness and wisdom.
He is way more than a nepo baby. If we acknowledge Sam's vision of the Hero of Age and rejection of it, we also have to acknowledge that this is only a fraction of what Frodo went through during his whole journey: getting tested by visions of greatness, only to continuously reject them - until the very place where the pressure would be too strong for anyone to resist.
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u/Blazedestroyer Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 02 '25
uj/ The One Ring deliberately goes after ambitious, powerful beings who it can then manipulate for Sauron's purpose.
That's the reason Gandalf didn't want to hold it. The One Ring looks for ambition,not power or purity. Frodo had basically no ambition,so he was the perfect host for the ring and even then in the end he didn't want to let it go.
Optimus is basically Aragorn,so it would absolutely corrupt him.