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“a verse long known in Elven-lore”
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Sauron engraved two lines upon the Ring: One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find them,We can safely assume he composed those two lines himself: they are part of the spell he used to bind the Rings of Power to himself in order to dominate and control their wearers. But the Rings of Power were intended for Elves, at least by their makers, for Sauron did not make them himself: he aided and guided the Noldor of Eregion. They had no intention of giving the Nine or the Seven to Men and Dwarves; though Celebrimbor gave the greatest of the Seven to his friend Durin III of Khazad-dûm, probably as Sauron and his army drew near Eregion and after he dispensed of the Three to Gil-galad and Galadriel. So my question is: Did Sauron make the eight-line poem of lore, with Celebrimbor and the Elven-smiths hearing and remembering it, passing it along to their kinsfolk to remember? Or did the surviving Noldor -- or possibly even the Dúnedain of Arnor -- wrap the two-line curse into the other six to make recollection easier? |
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