He also includes that three were made for elves, and seven for the dwarves. Why don't we see any pint size wraiths running around?
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My guess would be they didn't get corrupted.
Then why weren't they used to defeat Sauron at the Last Alliance battle, and they made no reference to them ever again?
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Then why weren't they used to defeat Sauron at the Last Alliance battle, and they made no reference to them ever again?
I'm guessing that the Dwarves wised up to what was happening before they got corrupted, but were unable to withstand the corruption for very long (unlike the Elves). So, they found a nice, big hole, and threw 'em in.
And the dwarves caught on early and removed their rings. Several (three I think) actually made it back to Sauron, and as he started to gather his power in the third age, he offered them once again to the dwarves, who turned him down and gained his eternal enmity.
At least one of the dwarven rings ended up dragon fodder, btw.
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As for thier only being Human wraiths:
Elves and Dwarves are the good races. Man is nuetral, orcs and the such are the evil ones.
The hearts of man are easily corrupted by greed and power. So it was easy for the 9 to fall. The elves had the power to hold out and were able to keep and still use thier rings. Elron had one and the lady of the wood held another. However I dont' remember what happened to the 3rd.
All the Dwarven rings were lost. I think it was 2 that were eaten by dragons and the other three were lost over time and turned up in Saurons hands. However the point of the one ring of course is that it controls all the others. By it'self it was pretty much powerless. But it acted as a channel for the other rings to focus thier power. ANd so Sauron infused it with a part of his being and made it evil. If not for this none of the rings would have been evil...
Of course this is just my interpretation. Please feel free to correct me on anything that needs it.
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After the defeat of the First Dark Lord, Sauron was left..he was a maia. The messengaer of the Gods was there to deal with him on behalf of the Gods. He truly repented, and again took a fair guise, but it seems it was out of fear. He saw the destruction of his lord. He begged for pardon, but the messenger was of the same level/race as Sauron and could not grant pardon. He was ordered back to Valinor to face the leader of the Gods (not the main diety who created all, but the first batch he created). Sauron couldn't bring himself to do this. He was afraid he would be made to say in Valinor and serve for a long period of time to show his repetence. He couldn't be a servant after being so powerful in Morgoth. So he hid himself away in Middle Earth after the Messanger left.
He wandered Middle Earth under this new guise and a new name. He was Lord of Gifts or something like that. Some of the elves were leary of him, others weren't. He went to stay with them. He fell into his evil ways again.
He felt the Gods once again abadoned middle earth and decided to set himself up as the Lord. When he was with the elves who took him in, he taught them the skill and lore to create the rings. He made the one in secret to control the rest. When he put it on, the elves realized who he really was and resisted. Sauron waged open war on them because he felt the rings should be returned to him, since they were made by what he taught the elves. The elves hid them away..gave them only to the wise, and never used them when Sauron was about.
The three elven rings were not touched by Sauron, only made thruough his tuteledge, hence they weren't fully corrupted as the others that he actually touched during the forging process, but they were still subject to the One Ring because they were made by skills Sauron taught.
Now as for the dwarven rings. The dwarves don't bend easily to any master. They strong and tough, and not as easy to corrupt..tougher then Sauron thought. All theyc ared about was wealth and gold. Hence the rings focused on that obsession. The stories say the beginnings of the 7 dwarven hordes started with a gold ring. The hordes were stolen by dragons, hence some of the rings were consumed by fire and some returned to Sauron.
Men we know about..they were easily conquered. But there were humans of middle Earth..not the Men of Numenor. They were then the great power of the world. Theys ailed to Middle Earth and seems disrupted poor Saurons dreams of power. They took him him hostage back to Numenor. There he was able to make the humnas of numenor jealous of their elven kin..the big armada to Valinor in revolf of the Gods..they split the world and destroyed Numenor. Sauron didn't count on this..he forgot how pissed they could get. He himself ended up in the abyss, then was only able to return to Middle Earth in spirit form, very weak. He needed to regain strength. The survivors of Numenor went there as well..established the Kingdoms there..that rose and fell..blah blah blah..essentially the beginning of the thrid age we know in Lord of the Rings trilogy. [ 12-24-2002: Message edited by: Caldur Ral'Nyn ]
An elf did have the ring of fire, he's the elf who controls the place where the elves leave middle earth. He gave Gandalf the ring to use and protect. [ 12-25-2002: Message edited by: Caldur Ral'Nyn ]
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