Talk:LOTRAddons/@comment-28970036-20160902185323/@comment-28970036-20160902205934

Hey, by taming I mean to say that the rings have a mind of their own, and may not neccesarily care too much for their owners, the one ring for instance, would often appear to change in size in the lord of the rings, attempting to slip from it's bearer's finger, and it's written as a deliberate betrayel by the ring itself, isildur losing the one ring and being "betrayed" to the orcs whilst using it is one example. While the ring could find your alignments more or less appealing, there would also be another measurement of the bearer's bond to the ring they possess, and the ring might "misbehave" if the bearer doesn't "master" it by holding on to it and building up a bond with the ring i.e doing it's tasks or behaving in a way the ring might like, i.e preserving it's forger or master, and killing enemies of the ring's previous master, forger or faction.

You could also be able to slowly corrupt your ring too or better it, though this should be impossible with the one ring, i.e if you have a mordor ring and keep killing mordor orcs, you'd lose a little favour with the ring itself, but the ring would start to gradually gain good alignment itself if that makes sense and vice versa, but it would favour you less until it truly sided with you, so you could do it's quests to solve the problem or master it first and lose less favour with the ring but still a little by killing it's allies to slowly change your ring's alignment, so the ring itself has alignments and also favour with a variety of players, something that is maintained, perhaps by shift right clicking with the ring in hand you can see how much it favours other players in a list?

The chain would be to stop the ring from jumping out of your inventory as Frodo used it to stop it from escaping him, and it would have a durability so to correctly look after a ring you had not mastered, you would have to check the durability of the chain on your ring, and possibly battles could wear down the chain, however the one ring's true master is sauron, so you would always have to wear a chain with it if you wanted to be absolutely sure it didn't drop from your inventory, also the forger of a ring could gift it to an immediate master perhaps, and so favour with the ring would already be great but gaining more or less would be based on the alignment stats of the forger to start with.

In the lore, men are easily corrupted by the rings even if the rings weren't particularly menacing, they still often mastered their bearers whereas the elves succesfully mastered their rings, so rings would be tamed in the sense that you'd tackle their negative effects and gain it's loyalty/favour over time.