Timeline for Why were there 3-7-9 Rings of Power?
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| Apr 23, 2022 at 1:55 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | The 5 rings for the Olympics were a later interpolation. | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 22:55 | comment | added | Pryftan | @xDaizu Although amusing it should be remembered that he was Lord of the Rings; if he had the One Ring the Elves could not have theirs on and once the One Ring was destroyed the others lost their power. | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 22:54 | comment | added | Pryftan | Trivia: In the earlier drafts it was Sauron who created the Rings of Power (and at one point there was the thought that Fëanor created them and were stolen by Morgoth) and the elves had had many and turned into wraiths; men had few and dwarves had none. But as the drafts continued this all changed - as we know. | |
| Dec 19, 2017 at 10:47 | comment | added | xDaizu | Because 9+7+3+1 = 20, the number of fingers and toes (aka ring slots) your average humanoid has. Had Sauron achieved his final goal, he could have equipped all of them and become the absolute Lord of the Rings, flip-flops and all. | |
| Nov 20, 2017 at 6:22 | history | protected | Edlothiad | ||
| Nov 19, 2017 at 21:52 | answer | added | Just A Thought | timeline score: -6 | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 2:14 | history | edited | Molag Bal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 21, 2016 at 15:40 | comment | added | void_ptr | That's how many slots they had on their characters to equip the rings back then. That went downhill all the way to two since then. | |
| Sep 21, 2016 at 13:39 | comment | added | ASH-Aisyah | Maybe he had an elvish vision of his future and knew he would die in 1973? o.O | |
| Sep 21, 2016 at 13:23 | answer | added | chepner | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 12, 2015 at 19:19 | comment | added | chepner | Sauron absolutely knew about the Three; he just had no hand in their making. | |
| Feb 20, 2015 at 20:32 | answer | added | Alcuin | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 15:58 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 29, 2012 at 12:01 | comment | added | spiceyokooko | The 3 Elven rings were never taken because Sauron never knew about them! The reason your getting so many down votes is probably because your thinking and question phrasing is very muddled. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 11:55 | history | edited | DVK-on-Ahch-To | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 29, 2012 at 8:40 | answer | added | WOPR | timeline score: 18 | |
| Dec 28, 2012 at 22:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/284781478477447168 | ||
| Dec 28, 2012 at 18:55 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | Any particular reason for a bunch of DVs? As the accepted answer shows, the question is quite answerable (as the question itself guessed, there were 7 Dwarf houses, so 7 wasn't random, and since the decision to take the 3 was the Elves', that left 9 to Sauron to give to Men). | |
| Dec 28, 2012 at 15:54 | vote | accept | DVK-on-Ahch-To | ||
| Dec 28, 2012 at 14:39 | answer | added | user8719 | timeline score: 28 | |
| Dec 28, 2012 at 13:31 | answer | added | spiceyokooko | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 28, 2012 at 13:09 | history | asked | DVK-on-Ahch-To | CC BY-SA 3.0 |