魔戒对强者更有用，也对强者更危险

关于魔戒的悖论，实力弱小之人戴上戒指也不会有什么效果，只有强大之人才能运用魔戒的力量。但同时也会受到魔戒的腐蚀。沙鲁曼想要戴上 the Ring，用以推翻 Sauron，但最终自己也会成为一代新的大魔王。甘道夫就对这股力量非常警惕，时刻远离。后期 Frodo 准备将魔戒献给西方森林精灵女王，女王也是经历一番心理抗争才最终抵御住了诱惑，并接受了接下来精灵一族衰落的必然。真正的智者都深刻理解着“斩龙少年终成恶龙”的道理。

Boromir 认为巫师和精灵法力强大，但心智不坚定，所以才会被诱惑。而自己作为人族精英，数百年来磨砺心志，绝对有能力抗衡魔戒的侵蚀。（然后上手开抢 ​

书中这一段的朗读也很出彩，女王贪欲起，声音都开始扭曲。

魔戒的诱惑很少以作恶的样子出现。Saruman 要的是 Knowledge、Rule、Order；Boromir 要保卫 Minas Tirith；Galadriel 想把一切拨回正轨。拥有使命感不能保证目的本身是善的 讨论的是目标本身的道德边界，这里的问题还多一层。即使目标正当，手段也会逐渐改写使用它的人。工具理性把手段变成了目的 在 Saruman 身上几乎有了完整台词。

Its strength, Boromir, is too great for anyone to wield at will, save only those who have already a great power of their own. But for them it holds an even deadlier peril. The very desire of it corrupts the heart. Consider Saruman. If any of the Wise should with this Ring overthrow the Lord of Mordor, using his own arts, he would then set himself on Sauron’s throne, and yet another Dark Lord would appear. And that is another reason why the Ring should be destroyed: as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so. I fear to take the Ring to hide it. I will not take the Ring to wield it. And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair! I pass the test,’ she said. ‘I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel. I wish you’d take his Ring. You’d put things to rights. You’d stop them digging up the Gaffer and turning him adrift. You’d make some folk pay for their dirty work. ‘I would,’ she said. ‘That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that, alas! We will not speak more of it. Let us go! J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

——收入 读书笔记 · 一得

看它的邻域 →