Waldo - what u did wasn’t a thread jack . It is in the purpose & nature of Tolkien threads to wander and devolve from the OP. it is the beauty of Tolkien to have discussions like this 60 years after the book was published. Wonder what books of today will be disciussed 60 years hence.
It actually goes to 11.
Apparently Nigel Tufnel’s amp is greater than the One Ring. 
But The Ring’s so powerful that its 10 is like the amp’s 11.
The amp goes to 11!
No, the Ring goes to eleventy-one.
Well, Bilbo certainly did, and at least a little bit more.
Hopefully more Game of Thrones and less Twilight. 
I’ll just add that, IIRC, Faramir is another being that (in the books) resists the lure of the ring. He ponders about it in the same enclave where he first meets with Gollum, Sam, and Frodo.
But he never actually has it. It’s one thing (though still admirable) to refuse to take it in the first place: It takes a good and strong person to do that, but it’s doable. It’s another entirely to have it and then give it up: Almost nobody is capable of that.
That’s a big number.
Does the amp go to 1111!!!11?