Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mmm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mmm!cipher From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Middle Earth (Tolkien) Questions Message-ID: <291@mmm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 09:10:32 EST Article-I.D.: mmm.291 Posted: Fri Nov 8 09:10:32 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:30:12 EST References: <1182@rayssd.UUCP> <852@utai.UUCP> Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) Distribution: net Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn. Lines: 24 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!