Timeline for How did Sauron not know about the Ring?
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 10:07 | comment | added | Dennis_E | Gandalf also said at one point: "...let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this, we shall put him out of reckoning." So at one point he says Sauron thinks the Ring to be destroyed, but at another moment he says the thought would never occur to Sauron. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 7:13 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | Just emailed Michael Martinez on his Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien blog about this question. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 7:00 | history | edited | Wad Cheber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2016 at 21:11 | answer | added | Mik Kaleborn | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 1:49 | answer | added | Oldcat | timeline score: 4 | |
| S Nov 10, 2015 at 5:08 | history | suggested | Peregrine Rook | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2015 at 20:55 | comment | added | Darael | @WadCheber Bear in mind that there's a dramatic irony: We know that his continuing existence is only possible because the ring hasn't been destroyed, but we don't know that he knew this. | |
| May 16, 2015 at 4:06 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | This is an AMAZING question- I never noticed the implication of Sauron thinking the Ring had been destroyed, let alone the fact that his continuing existence meant that the Ring COULDN'T have been destroyed. | |
| Apr 22, 2015 at 19:53 | history | edited | Null♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2013 at 19:25 | comment | added | italia06828334 | The other answers, especially spicyokooko's are well done but it's worth noting that this is Gandalf's explanation. This does not make it true. Gandalf while very wise, does not know everything. This explanation is what he deduced based on what he learned. Also, Sauron was defeated and killed by Gil-Galad and Elendil, not Isildur. Isildur merely cut the Ring from the dead body of Sauron afterward. | |
| Jan 7, 2013 at 14:54 | answer | added | spiceyokooko | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 6, 2013 at 22:03 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/288043063975223296 | ||
| Jan 6, 2013 at 21:59 | comment | added | Andres F. | @b_jonas Hah hah, I see what you did there. | |
| Jan 6, 2013 at 21:49 | comment | added | b_jonas | Harry asks about this in Prince chapter 23. Dumbledore's answer is that because the Dark Lord ‘is now so immersed in evil, and these crucial parts of himself have been detached for so long, he does not feel as we do.’ | |
| S Jan 6, 2013 at 21:25 | history | suggested | Niall C. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Capitalization.
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| Jan 6, 2013 at 21:03 | answer | added | Darael | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jan 6, 2013 at 20:59 | history | asked | user11770 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |