Don't let go, Mr. Frodo

Frodo. LOTR. J.R.R. Tolkein and the ring that fell into the fires of Mt. Doom. Phones are the ring.

Frodo never throws the ring in the fire of Mt. Doom. His good self loses to the greedy lizard brain. He lost to the temptation of the dark side. The golden ring, the symbol of intoxicating power. 

“It’s mine.” he says as he puts it on, abandoning the virtuous path. Abandoning his friend. Abandoning the mission.

Gollum is another embodiment of lizardy greed and obsession with power. Gollum re-appears and attacks the ring-wearing Frodo. Greed attacking itself. The dark side, a self terminating force.

Violence, self terminating.

On the journey, Sam only carried the ring for a brief moment. This moment showed he was not immune to the whispers of the dark side. But he did not succumb to the ring’s insidious infection. Inside Mt Doom he begged Frodo end it by throwing the ring in the fire. He screamed “what are you waiting for?” because he was not in the frequency of addiction. 

Sam is rendered unconscious by Gollum, then Gollum bit Frodo’s finger off. Frodo, Gollum and the Ring fell off the …