forhobbitreasons:

hot take but the ring only affected bilbo because it could sense the void that thorin left behind and so it filled that space and made itself precious to bilbo and bilbo let it because, well, it hurt less than to leave that space open for thorin. if thorin had lived the ring eventually would’ve been forgotten in some drawer in erebor somewhere and sauron would’ve spent the next ever being like “where the FUCK is my ring.” in this essay i will