“He heard himself crying out: ‘Never, never!’ Or was it: ‘Verily I come, I come to you?’ He could not tell. Then as a flash from some other point of power there came to his mind another thought: ‘Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring!’

The two powers strove in him. For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. Suddenly he was aware of himself again. Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye: free to choose, and with one remaining instant in which to do so. He took the Ring off his finger.”