LOTR: What If Faramir Had Taken The One Ring From Frodo?
In The Lord of the Rings, Faramir resisted the temptation to take the One Ring from Frodo, but had he given in to this temptation, the trilogy’s ending would have looked very different. In Tolkien’s novels, Faramir said to Frodo, “I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her.” In Peter Jackson’s cinematic version, while he eventually reached the same conclusion, Faramir did not find it so easy to resist The Ring’s allure.
Faramir and Frodo’s paths crossed in The Two Towers. Suspecting Frodo of being a servant of the Dark Tower, Faramir took him captive until he discovered the truth of Frodo’s quest. Ultimately, Faramir wasn't changed too drastically from the books and released Frodo, a decision that enabled the hobbit to destroy the One Ring. But this was not Faramir’s original plan. In order to show his father, Denethor, his “quality”, he intended to deliver the Ring to Gondor. It was only after realizing the Ring’s corrupting influence that he resisted his temptation and let Frodo go.
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If Faramir had taken the One Ring from Frodo, Sauron would have been the victor at the end of The Lord of the Rings. Frodo’s dispossession of the Ring wouldn’t have had immediate consequences. The Battle of Minas Tirith would still have ended with Gondorian victory, thanks to the charge of the Rohirrim and Aragorn’s undead entourage. However, with the One Ring in the wrong part of Middle-Earth, it would not have been possible for Frodo, or any other character, to reach Mount Doom and destroy it.
In The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers, which ends differently to the book, Faramir did not wish to use the
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