[Overtaxed]

What exactly would happen should someone else try to use the Ring is less clear, except that it would be bad.

Sauron was afraid that Aragon would use the ring against him. And Aragorn had the strength to do it too. After all, he did win the palantir battle.

[Overtaxed]

Okay...I pushed the "Preview" button only ONCE and I never hit "Post Reply"...stupid browser.

[JenB]

Aragorn won the palantir battle because he had the right to use the palantir, a right Saruman did not have... the Ring would not, I think, have taken kindly to any master except Sauron; but the powerful would have been able to use it. Hobbits would just have been corrupted and discarded. Nasty Ring!

[TigerTale]

Sauron was afraid that Aragon would use the ring against him. And Aragorn had the strength to do it too. After all, he did win the palantir battle.

But, remember--Sauron's strength was diminished by the lack of the Ring. If Aragorn had come under the influence of the Ring, he could not have resisted its corrupting influence. Once the Ring had him in its power, would it have been satisfied with a mere man, or would it have bent its will to be reunited with its true master?

Sauron bested the Numenoreans at the hight of their glory (prior to the destruction of his attractive form, and before the creation of the One Ring, I believe.)Much of his power was then placed in the Ring. Once Aragorn fell under it's spell, would he have fared any better than his ancestors in resisting the seduction of Sauron?