User blog comment:Tinni/Ichigo/@comment-1243139-20091123164420

About ichigo being years away from fully mastering his power could simply be lack of interest, the only times he did so (1) training with urahara to get him better prepared for SS since he knew what ichigo would be facing, (2) Bankai training with Yoruichi same thing (3) It was either vizard training or he was done for. All those other times of becoming more powerful was when he was fighting but if he actually chose to train himself to that extent considering how powerful he gets in a short amount of time it would probably take him.. a year maybe 2 as for the Frodo reference he did get affected by the Ring the only reason it was destroyed was because smeogul had it and Frodo kind of wrestled him off the ledge.