Can't destroy or hide it...why not use it ?

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Not a mere Boromir or Aragorn, or even Elrond, but Gandalf could do it.

A co-Maia with Sauron surely he can endure the Ring long enough to blast Sauron (or whatever it is the Ring does with its opponent). If Sauron is then out of the equation, shouldn't the Ring stop being evil since its maker was defeated (and this time a bit more thoroughly than some finger cut off) ? Or is the Ring extra-evil and would sabotage and not work against his own creator ?
 
Boromir is driven mad by the ring as we see in FOTR
Aragorn, is doubtful of becoming king, and he doesnt know if he is ready for kingship, or able to resist the ring - though he does at the fellowship parting.
Elrond will not do this, as he gave up the art of war and such domains ie the ring at the end of the battle in the first part of FOTR
Gandalf - the ring could not be given for safekeeping for it would give too much power and corrupt

As for the ring stopping being evil at the destruction of its creator, the two are linked - destroy the ring destroy the creators 'spirit'

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until the Ring is destroyed, the spirit of Sauron will forever inhabit and corrupt it. Gandalf and Galadriel were both presented the opportunity to take the ring and both refused for good reason! Even a great immortal like Galadriel or a maiar like Gandalf would eventually be corrupted. Any victory they achieved would be short-lived.
 
Even if Sauron was defeated by a new Ringbearer, the Ring would not stop being evil. Using the Ring in war would lead only to a new Dark Lord being set up in place of Sauron; not exactly what the Council of Elrond was trying to achieve.
 
They would defeat Sauron sure enough. They would begin with doing it for good, but the Ring would begin to twist their minds and they would seek power and become another Dark Lord.
Destroying it was truly the only choice.
 
Sauron enhanced the Ring with a part of his own life force so that he could dominate over the other ringbearers (especially the Elves) and rule forever.
If the ring is unharmed, the Maia spirit of Sauron cannot be eliminated,whatever happens to his physical form.If one powerful lord of men,elves or a wizard uses the ring to overthrown the dark lord, could have succeeded because in late Third age Sauron's power was outspread in controlling his countless armies,so a one on one combat with a new powerful ringlord would be really tough for him.
But the one ring will never stop representing Sauron ,longing to return to its master's hand...the new ringlord would rise in power,ever corrupted by the ring's will and the spirit of Sauron could once again gather strenght to built a new physical form, preparing to regain his reign and the war would go on and on...
 
Tolkien makes it quite clear that no mortal (and he suggests the same is true of Elves) could have defeated Sauron by weilding the Ring. This makes sense, I think; you would need power comparable to Sauron's to take control of the Ring.
 
Saruman was corrupted by desire for knowledge and power even without the ring. I would suspect that Gandalf would be corrupted as well, were he to wield the ring. That was his opinion anyway.

But as a human, it's certainly easy to consider using it. Have humans ever had a weapon that they did not use?

Another point to consider:

If the ring was used by Gandalf to overthrow Sauron, what kind of story would we have?
 
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