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It was a tool of control for sauron but also just a tool of corrupting evil in general, making anyone that wielded it akin to sauron. Whether or not sauron is actually there or not. At least for the powerful characters in the series. The weaker ones are simply driven to madness in the absence of a physical sauron to control them to give the ring back (gollum)
If a powerful person like gandalf or saruman took the ring, they could and most likely would destroy sauron... but they would also, effectively, *become* sauron once again (and saruman more or less did just from meer obsession with the ring). Which is why gandalf never took the ring. Gandalf and saruman are already effectively siblings of sauron, they are near peers though sauron has more power. With the ring, which itself contains half of saurons power inside of it, either one of them could remove the will of sauron from it, but the corrupting evil is always there, always present. It will turn them evil, too, even with no sauron and none of saurons will inside of the ring.
Evil in lord of the rings is beyond sauron, sauron did not create evil nor was he born evil. Sauron is under the corrupting influence of morgoth, who is lotr's Satan, but actually yields more power overall than the real life Satan. Morgoth is far more powerful than any other character in the series besides Eru (God in lord of the rings). The will of sauron is in the ring, but can be muted by a being like gandalf that would become more powerful than him because they wield the ring. *Evil*, however, is from morgoth. And morgoth and his will are far more powerful than gandalf, sauron, or anyone else. If the ring is forged with evil, it's forged with morgoth, and nobody in the series has the power to remove morgoth from an object.
So, for those with great willpower and power, it is a corrupting thing that turns them into another sauron even if they use it to overthrow sauron. For those without great willpower, it turns them insane. It is fully evil, but it's beyond just a means of saurons control. The ring has the mind of sauron but its essence is of morgoth and the essence of it is all-corrupting to everything around it (except Tom bombadil, but I won't count him because Tolkien explains absolutely nothing whatsoever about what bombadil actually is)
If a powerful person like gandalf or saruman took the ring, they could and most likely would destroy sauron... but they would also, effectively, *become* sauron once again (and saruman more or less did just from meer obsession with the ring). Which is why gandalf never took the ring. Gandalf and saruman are already effectively siblings of sauron, they are near peers though sauron has more power. With the ring, which itself contains half of saurons power inside of it, either one of them could remove the will of sauron from it, but the corrupting evil is always there, always present. It will turn them evil, too, even with no sauron and none of saurons will inside of the ring.
Evil in lord of the rings is beyond sauron, sauron did not create evil nor was he born evil. Sauron is under the corrupting influence of morgoth, who is lotr's Satan, but actually yields more power overall than the real life Satan. Morgoth is far more powerful than any other character in the series besides Eru (God in lord of the rings). The will of sauron is in the ring, but can be muted by a being like gandalf that would become more powerful than him because they wield the ring. *Evil*, however, is from morgoth. And morgoth and his will are far more powerful than gandalf, sauron, or anyone else. If the ring is forged with evil, it's forged with morgoth, and nobody in the series has the power to remove morgoth from an object.
So, for those with great willpower and power, it is a corrupting thing that turns them into another sauron even if they use it to overthrow sauron. For those without great willpower, it turns them insane. It is fully evil, but it's beyond just a means of saurons control. The ring has the mind of sauron but its essence is of morgoth and the essence of it is all-corrupting to everything around it (except Tom bombadil, but I won't count him because Tolkien explains absolutely nothing whatsoever about what bombadil actually is)