Timeline for What happened to Saruman's ring in the Fourth Age?
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| Dec 23, 2022 at 22:50 | comment | added | chepner | There's no reason to believe the Seven or the Nine would have had any negative effects on Elves, either. (They were designed for Elves, just as all the others save the One were.) Sauron only gave rings to Dwarves and Men (there's also no reason to believe there was any particular distinction among those sixteen rings) after his initial plan failed and he seized what he could from Eregion. | |
| Dec 23, 2022 at 21:58 | comment | added | Morg. | @chepner I see your point, I just don't think Sauron had the craftsmanship. More like the dark magic side of things, but he could never have made the three rings. The only thing he managed to make was the enslaving rings, and the enslaver ring. As far as I know, the three took nothing away from their creator and gave them very tangible benefits, which I believe was due to the elves' superior ability to create magical objects, as they had before created even greater ones with the silmaril. It's pure theory crafting, but it's likely Sauron went to Celebrimbor to learn how to make good rings. | |
| Aug 30, 2019 at 17:41 | comment | added | chepner | @Morg. Sauron was instructing the Elven smiths in how to make rings, not the other way around. | |
| Oct 7, 2011 at 9:40 | comment | added | Morg. | Surely Saruman had not succeeded .. one should remember that Sauron was a great Mayar, that he learned with the best (iirc he was in close relationship with the eregion smiths) and that it took him quite some time before he succeeded in making the one ring, in a friggin volcano (underground "lair" anyone ?) which has no equal in middle-earth it would seem. So at most he may have succeeded in making rings inferior to the nine... like anyone would care about that ;) | |
| Oct 4, 2011 at 8:33 | comment | added | Jack V. | Yeah. I assumed he'd progressed somewhat towards it (hence the ring on his finger) but that it wasn't successful enough to matter when his power was broken (for whatever reason). | |
| Aug 3, 2011 at 9:30 | comment | added | jwenting | indeed. Nowhere does it read that Saruman had created a ring of power, only that it was his intention to do so. | |
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| May 14, 2011 at 16:23 | history | answered | user56 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |