[g'nad]

Are you saying that the Ring is ALIVE!?!?!?

Gandalph told Frodo the Ring had a will of it's own, and will seek to return to its master...I'm not sure if it was alive per se, but Sauron put a portion of his spirit/being/essence into the ring...that's why he wouldn't truly die until until the Ring was destroyed...

Again, I don't have access to the text here at work, so if somebody could correct me if I'm wrong...

[ksen]

I know it is "alive" in a sense. I was just fooling around up there.

[Overtaxed]

I guess it's a viewpoint thing. To Isildur it would be an accident, to the ring it was an action, to Gandalf it was a plan.