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[Middle Earth] Do those corrupted by the One Ring still have free will?
gpt
I would say so, in the sense that they make their own choices. The One Ring ultimately serves only Sauron and wants to rejoin him, influencing its host to do whatever it can to get that to happen. Gollum was probably the most affected by the Ring and he would never give it up, but it changed and manipulated him to get to Sauron. Gandalf wasn’t worried that he would become Sauron’s slave with the Ring, but that he would become corrupted into becoming the *next* Sauron.