Live by the Sword, Die by the Sabre

This is one of those superfamous biblisms that everybody uses. And usually this is employed as a metaphor for doing something nefarious, or sometimes even doing something just a little bit too repetatively that eventually comes back around you. The idea is that you're introducing a behavior that can only result in that same behavior being reflected back at you. Tokin is playing on this theme as we see the inneraction with the ring of power. Some members of the fellowship look at the ring, and theyre like, this as a weapon of the enemy. To employ it is to affirm the behaviour of theenemy. In the same way, the enemy could not resist the corrupting allure of