09-29-2001, 05:14 PM | #1 |
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Sauron's ring and his form
When did Sauron forge the One RING?
before or after his imprisonment on numeor if before how could be caputured? if after did he resurrect himself in a pleasant form as the lord of gifts? I thought he was burnt and blackened. Was this after is fight with Elendil and Gil-galad? Why was he burnt? did he have a form in the 3rd age or was he always an eye?( or a presence)
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09-29-2001, 07:09 PM | #2 | |
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Sauron forged the One Ring in the 1600th year of the Second Age, the Year of Dread. That's when Glorfindel (and the Blue Wizards) returned from the West to Middle-earth, by the way. It was before his captivity in Númenórë. As for 'how could be caputured?', that's a question that has been asked before and answered by J. R. R. Tolkien:
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He was (as you seem to wonder) the Lord of Gifts before his going to Elenna ('Starwards' one of the names of the Island upon which Númenor was founded), and indeed before his making of the One Ring. His burnt and blackened (hideous) form was simply the reflection of his personality after the Downfall of Númenor. He was unable to assume any sort of fair form after that disaster, and thus did he look during the War of the Last Alliance. He was never the Eye itself. The Eye was something that he had (and seemingly only the one Eye) after his return from the 'death' he met at the hands of Isildur.
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