Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site wucec2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!wucs!wucec2!ph From: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Middle Earth (Tolkien) Questions Message-ID: <1177@wucec2.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 10:16:42 EST Article-I.D.: wucec2.1177 Posted: Mon Nov 11 10:16:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 06:22:33 EST References: <2152@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn) Distribution: net Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis Lines: 25 In article <2152@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >> "[The Elven-rings'] power was bound up with [the One Ring], 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. > >It is uncertain. The contents of Barad-Dur were essentially >obliterated in the aftermath of the destruction of the One Ring, >so you are in fact correct; but my guess is that the Seven, at >least, remained material. That is what I believe also. Remember that the Three continued to exist, though they were stripped of their power. They eventually went West with their bearers. Of course, the Three were much less under the influence of the One than the Seven and the Nine, since Sauron never touched them. Nevertheless the passage quoted above says that their only power was bound up with the One. I see no reason not to believe that their substance continued. --pH /* * "Ash nazg thrakatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul, * ash nazg durbatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!" */