The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Day 3, going strong

 

What's interesting about this thread and the ranks given, is the Hobbit rank is given at day 15 and The White Wizard is a very high rank, but when it comes to the temptation of the ring, Hobbits are shown to be the most resilient to it's seductive power. Granted Frodo does succumb eventually, but Bilbo and Sam both willingly give up the ring during the course of the story. A long streak free of PMO could have had the title "Samwise the Brave" etc

Faramir is also another great example as he lets the ring go too (In the books this is more impressive than the film)

Anyway. I love this thread and I understand it's well established so I don't expect you to change anything, I just wanted to add my thoughts

 

286 beyond the stairs of Cirith Ungol
361 days no PMO, semen retention

 

Good idea ,Tom Bombadil can be other one, i love that character his mysterious origin and his humble, he doesn't affect by the ring too

 

Good Point! Tom was such an enigma, The ring had no power over him at all

 

Thanks bro!

And I also find anger to be quite useful sometimes, especially when I need to do hard stuff, hahah

 

Wow! Nice reflection! We cannot lose the simplicity of our goals through the reboot process.

"Courage is found in unlikely places"

 

Day 5. Almost Uruk-Hai let's keep doing our best.

 

Day 2 , 27/04/2021

No urges

 

Day 243. Checking in.

 

2 days. Some urges last night. Feeling a bit rough this morning. Think I slept in a funny position last night. But it’s ok. Time to get up. Travel back to work today. Been a decent week off.

 

Checking in Day 11

 

You could also make the argument that The White Wizard still deserves to be the top rank though because Gandalf, Galadriel, and other characters too are powerful enough amd wise enough that they could actually use the ring to do good.

But they don't because they know it's better that men have the power to make their own choices, for good or evil, than to be coerced to do good.

How does this apply to pmo? Well, Frodo wouldn't have taken on the quest to destroy the ring unless the mission had been reluctantly given to him by Gandalf. In a similar way, I think people who reach the white wizard rank and above have an obligation to encourage people still struggling. @Alex_Al is a great example of this actually as he checks in on occasion for the that sole purpose.

As an aside, if you wanted to make an alternative character the highest rank my vote would have to be for Tom Bombadil because he's an og that couldn't care less about the ring. It literally has no power over him. He can put it on without turning invisible and laugh at it. He also can basically dick slap every other foe in the third age if they come near his little forest.

It would also be kind of poetic because we start out as hobbits and the last rank, if it were Bombadil, would place people who've completed the challenge near the Shire back near the beginning. Kinda like they're sending off people just overcoming their addiction.

 

Haha, I didn't scroll down far enough to see your reply before I nerded out amd wrote mine. Glad I'm not the only one to think of it.

 

Very true! Though I would counter this slightly be saying that Bilbo, though certainly forever changed by the Ring, Did give it up, he may have needed a gentle nudge from Gandalf but he still chose to walk away from it, unlike Frodo (poor Frodo).

Bilbo had the ring in his keeping for 60 years, it's incredible to think he could willingly walk away from it after that, even with some hesitation.