Timeline for How does Gandalf (or anyone) know how to destroy the Ring?
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| Jul 12, 2023 at 12:59 | comment | added | Michael Foster | @RichS, you are doubtless correct, but the rules are different with magic. Something Sauron did in the forging of the Ring made it more like super-gold. After all, a little fire doesn't even heat the Ring, let alone melt it. The Ring was probably forged in temperatures easily hot enough to melt normal gold. Maybe he used knowledge from Aulë to polarize the gold, surround it with magnets... | |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 22:33 | comment | added | Pryftan | @MauganRa Indeed. But some people suggest it did kill him. For example the actual answer I was responding to. But perhaps I take it too literally and in any event it's all things considered the same result: no longer a threat. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 11:42 | comment | added | MauganRa | @Pryftan as was expected, as the ring "only" contained like 99% of his fëa. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 0:46 | comment | added | RichS | Forging does not require the metal to be hot enough to melt. In fact, that would make it impossible to forge. A forge makes it soft enough to hammer. Casting requires the metal be heated until it melts. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 17:39 | comment | added | Pryftan | I should also say that if the hobbits had taken the Ring by force like poor Sméagol did it would have taken them much quicker. That's part of the Ring's nature. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 17:39 | comment | added | Pryftan | It absolutely did corrupt the hobbits; it's just they were more resilient to some of the corruption i.e. took longer. And look at Gollum: a distant Stoor if not a Stoor outright. And furthermore, it did NOT kill Sauron; he was diminished to a shadow that could never threaten Middle-earth again but he did not die. He lingered on as a shadow. | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 22:40 | comment | added | Ian Thompson | Can you back this up with quotes from the books? | |
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| Aug 6, 2017 at 22:14 | history | answered | Seska1729 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |