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From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
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Subject: Re: Middle Earth (Tolkien) Questions
Message-ID: <291@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 09:10:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 09:10:32 1985
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In article <852@utai.UUCP> gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker) writes:
>"Now the Elves made many rings;  but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule
>all the others, and their power was bound up with it, to be subject wholly
			   ^^^^^
>to it and to last only so long as it too should last."
>		     - 'Of the Rings of Power & the Third Age'
>
>So the rings were destroyed when the Ring was.  The Elven rings weren't
>because Sauron never had any sort of contact with them or control over
>them.  The others were too closely bound to the One Ring, though, to
>survive its destruction.
>

The rings would lose their power, surely.  But they would not
necessarily be destroyed.  Their power was bound up in it, not their
existence.  So it's quite possible they survived, as non-magical
objects.
-- 

						Andre Guirard
						The Mad Potato Peel
						ihnp4!mmm!cipher

=/?!  it's magic!